Profezie, visioni e molteplicità testuale nella letteratura copta: l’encomio “Sui quarantanove martiri di Sceti”
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Marta Addessi
Abstract
The encomium “On the Forty-Nine Martyrs of Scetis” is a composite work of which author and date of composition are unknown. The aim of this contribution is to provide a detailed analysis of the sections that make up the work, pointing out some inconsistencies and reasoning on the motivations underlying the choice to include independent episodes that the author/compiler of the encomium tried to juxtapose by means of the link – at times rather tenuous – with the forty-nine martyrs of Scetis. At the same time, a hypothesis for the dating of the composition of the work will be provided and the textual passages most directly connected to the theme of the volume (those, therefore, concerning prophecies and visions) will be highlighted, also showing how the position of certain textual sections is inappropriate for the purpose of giving continuity and coherence to the work. Finally, one of the most frequent proleptic structures in the Coptic language will be briefly illustrated.
Abstract
The encomium “On the Forty-Nine Martyrs of Scetis” is a composite work of which author and date of composition are unknown. The aim of this contribution is to provide a detailed analysis of the sections that make up the work, pointing out some inconsistencies and reasoning on the motivations underlying the choice to include independent episodes that the author/compiler of the encomium tried to juxtapose by means of the link – at times rather tenuous – with the forty-nine martyrs of Scetis. At the same time, a hypothesis for the dating of the composition of the work will be provided and the textual passages most directly connected to the theme of the volume (those, therefore, concerning prophecies and visions) will be highlighted, also showing how the position of certain textual sections is inappropriate for the purpose of giving continuity and coherence to the work. Finally, one of the most frequent proleptic structures in the Coptic language will be briefly illustrated.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- Introduction: A universal idea stored in the mind. Preliminary remarks on prolepsis 1
- L’Eracle ex machina nel Filottete di Sofocle: moduli espressivi e narrativi della profezia 15
- Un oracolo funesto, un principe esposto, una nascita illegittima: Per una ricostruzione degli Aleadi di Sofocle 41
- Il console mandato dagli dèi 81
- Prolepsis in Ancient Narrative Theory and Practice. “Rome” in Virgil’s Aeneid 107
- Profezia e sovranità spartana: ripensare le dinastie regali spartane alla luce del rapporto con l’oracolo di Delfi 127
- The Mantic King: Macedonian kingship and divination 147
- Setting Up the Tyrant in Suetonius’ Life of Nero 167
- Sogni africani: Giustiniano e Procopio alla vigilia della Guerra Vandalica (533) 181
- The “prophet and supreme priest”. Tentative remarks on a Pindaric fragment (fr. 94a.5–6 Snell-Maehler) 199
- Tra oscurità e evidenza: la Guerra di Troia nella profezia sibillina 215
- Passato, presente, futuro, eternità. I tempi della profezia tra Origene e gli Antiocheni 227
- Sogni, apparizioni, visioni, profezie: alcuni esempi di prolepsis nell’agiografia latina medievale 251
- Who Constitutes Pronoia in Athenian Murder Trials? 265
- A lost example of Demosthenic prolepsis in Rutilius’ rhetorical handbook 293
- Prognosi: la previsione come terapia nella medicina antica e nei papiri medici greci 301
- Stoic prolêpsis and Meno’s Paradox. Platonic Echoes in Stoic Concept Formation 315
- Genesis and Textual Stratification of Ancient Exegetical Texts: The Case of P.Oxy. 2506 343
- Profezie, visioni e molteplicità testuale nella letteratura copta: l’encomio “Sui quarantanove martiri di Sceti” 351
- Predicting manuscript evidence: premodern readings of the Apocolocyntosis 373
- Names and Places
- Passages
- Material sources
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- Introduction: A universal idea stored in the mind. Preliminary remarks on prolepsis 1
- L’Eracle ex machina nel Filottete di Sofocle: moduli espressivi e narrativi della profezia 15
- Un oracolo funesto, un principe esposto, una nascita illegittima: Per una ricostruzione degli Aleadi di Sofocle 41
- Il console mandato dagli dèi 81
- Prolepsis in Ancient Narrative Theory and Practice. “Rome” in Virgil’s Aeneid 107
- Profezia e sovranità spartana: ripensare le dinastie regali spartane alla luce del rapporto con l’oracolo di Delfi 127
- The Mantic King: Macedonian kingship and divination 147
- Setting Up the Tyrant in Suetonius’ Life of Nero 167
- Sogni africani: Giustiniano e Procopio alla vigilia della Guerra Vandalica (533) 181
- The “prophet and supreme priest”. Tentative remarks on a Pindaric fragment (fr. 94a.5–6 Snell-Maehler) 199
- Tra oscurità e evidenza: la Guerra di Troia nella profezia sibillina 215
- Passato, presente, futuro, eternità. I tempi della profezia tra Origene e gli Antiocheni 227
- Sogni, apparizioni, visioni, profezie: alcuni esempi di prolepsis nell’agiografia latina medievale 251
- Who Constitutes Pronoia in Athenian Murder Trials? 265
- A lost example of Demosthenic prolepsis in Rutilius’ rhetorical handbook 293
- Prognosi: la previsione come terapia nella medicina antica e nei papiri medici greci 301
- Stoic prolêpsis and Meno’s Paradox. Platonic Echoes in Stoic Concept Formation 315
- Genesis and Textual Stratification of Ancient Exegetical Texts: The Case of P.Oxy. 2506 343
- Profezie, visioni e molteplicità testuale nella letteratura copta: l’encomio “Sui quarantanove martiri di Sceti” 351
- Predicting manuscript evidence: premodern readings of the Apocolocyntosis 373
- Names and Places
- Passages
- Material sources
