Two unnoticed allusions to Xenophon (An. 1, 1, 1 and HG 1, 1, 20) in the Biblioteca of Photius (cods. 57, 72)
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Pedro Emilio Rivera Díaz
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1379-3076
Abstract
In the study of Xenophon’s reception in Byzantium, that has begun some years ago, there are still aspects to discover, even from the most worked and recognized authors. Among them is Photius of Constantinople, author of the Bibliotheca that contains an important amount of information about Antiquity that has not arrived or has been preserved in a fragmentary way. Due to its monumentality and large number of direct references to the reviewed texts, attention to allusions has been scarce, even to those from the classical period. Thus, this paper seeks to demonstrate the existence of two allusions to Xenophon in the Bibliotheca (cods. 57, 15b; 72, 37a), so far not located, by comparing their linguistic and thematic elements. With this is expected to shed new light on the presence of the Athenian in such a significant work.
Keywords:
Photius of Constantinople, Bibliotheca, allusions, Xenophon, Anabasis, HellenicaReferences
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