This paper investigates the collection of fifty love letters that a Vienna codex, which dates from the 12th to 13th century and was discovered in the Terra d’Otranto, attributes to an author conventionally identified by the name Aristaenetus. Almost two centuries after the historic commentary of Boissonade (1822) and despite the care of authoritative twentieth-century scholars, the most notable being Albin Lesky and William Geoffrey Arnott, numerous questions remain unanswered. In particular, the validity of the Vienna manuscript’s attribution of authorship to Aristaenetus; the historical-literary identity of the author; and the dating of the collection
L'autore e la lettera: problemi di attribuzione e autorialità nell'epistolografia greca fittizia
Anna Drago
2022-01-01
Abstract
This paper investigates the collection of fifty love letters that a Vienna codex, which dates from the 12th to 13th century and was discovered in the Terra d’Otranto, attributes to an author conventionally identified by the name Aristaenetus. Almost two centuries after the historic commentary of Boissonade (1822) and despite the care of authoritative twentieth-century scholars, the most notable being Albin Lesky and William Geoffrey Arnott, numerous questions remain unanswered. In particular, the validity of the Vienna manuscript’s attribution of authorship to Aristaenetus; the historical-literary identity of the author; and the dating of the collectionI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
