Cornuto

Los cinco escritos que se recogen en este libro conforman una unidad (pese a su diversidad aparente) por cuanto ilustran de forma impecable tres de las formas en que los griegos de la Antigüedad practicaron la mitografía. Los tres primeros opúsculos (las Historias increíbles de Paléfato, Heráclito y el Anónimo Vaticano) son básicamente representativos de la exégesis racionalista del mito. Con la obra de Eratóstenes (Catasterismos) volvemos, del tiempo impreciso del Anónimo, a la época helenística, momento en que se debió de componer esta suerte de astronomía mitológica en la que se narran las conversiones en estrellas de personajes famosos del mito. Por su parte, el Repaso de las tradiciones teológicas de los griegos de Aneo Cornuto (obra que se traduce aquí por vez primera al castellano) ejemplifica la corriente alegórica de análisis del mito.

El documento adjunto incluye la reseña de la obra publicada por R. Torné Teixidó en Estudios Clásicos 142 (2012), 133-134

Cornutus was a Roman philosopher who wrote this compendium on the Greek gods in Greek language in the first century A.D. He wanted to teach the basics of Stoic philosophy to an unknown Roman boy using this mythological work by etymologizing and allegorizing the gods' names and epithets.

This is the first critical edition of the compendium since 1881.

La ᾿Επιδρομή es uno de los pocos manuales didácticos de la Antigüedad que ha llegado hasta nosotros. Este trabajo analizará la relación establecida en el texto entre el autor y su destinatario, un joven romano a quien Cornuto intenta instruir en la física estoica a través de la revisión y reinterpretación de los mitos griegos tradicionales.

Whoever wants to read Cornutus’s Summary of the Greek Theological Traditions must still employ the old and controversial edition published by C. Lang in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana in 1881. My contribution first analyses the multifarious problems which vitiate Lang’s edition. Its principal (and obvious)  defect is the editor’s proclivity to identify as interpolated many passages of the text without an objective reason. Once that the possibility of rescuing Cornutus’s ipsissima verba – as Lang intented – is discarded, I present the materials on which a new critical edition of the Summary should be based. For this purpose it is underlined that the stemmatic analysis of Cornutus’s forty manuscripts published by P. Krafft in 1975 must be taken as a point of departure. Then, some critical decisions by the new Cornutus’s editor are proposed in relation to the linguistic form of the the transmitted text. It is likewise discussed the kind of conjectures that can be proposed to improve Cornutus’s text as it is read in the manuscripts.

Cornutus occupies a peculiar place among those Latin authors that wrote in Greek as he is particularly prone to disclose his Roman origins; this has already been perceived by previous scholars when analyzing some passages in his mythographical treaty. Following these previous works I will add in this paper a new interpretation of Corn. ND 30 (61). I will try to show that Cornutus in-cludes in this place a not yet detected reference to Roman Bacchanals.

This contribution analyses some textual problems related to the interpretation of three theonyms in Cornutus's mythographical treaty. In each case the textual testimonies and the solutions adopted in the critical editions by Lang (1881) and Torres (2018) are considered. A text is proposed for each case on the basis of the etymological and allegorizing method employed in the treaty.

Three years ago, the latest critical edition of Cornutus’s mythological treaty was the one published by C. Lang in 1881 (Cornuti Theologiae Graecae Compendium, Leipzig, Teubner). In 2018, a new critical text and apparatus appeared in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (J. B. Torres, ed., Lucius Annaeus Cornutus. Compendium de Graecae Theologiae traditionibus, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter). Unfortunately, some typos, mainly concerning superscript letters in the name of some manuscripts, appeared in its Praefatio. So long, no reimpression of the work has been published. The following list presents all the misprints of that Praefatio and the corresponding emendations.

This article analyses several lapsus calami attested in Cornutus’s textual transmission. On the basis of the manuscripts themselves, these scribal mistakes cast light on the internal history of scribes and their world. The case of the Byzantine scholar who copied manuscript κ, from which a fourth part of the Cornutean manuscripts derives, is analysed in detail.