Plethon and the maltese dogs

• JOHN A. DEMETRACOPOULOS ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Patras

     University of Patras

     Dimos Patras, Grecia

     
• Localización: Mediterranea.: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, ISSN-e 2445-2378, Nº. 10, 2025, págs. 399-442
• Idioma: inglés
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  • ‘Plethon’isthenamehecoinedinordertoalludetohispaganintellectualidentity(seeGEORGESCHOLARIOS–GENNADIOSII,ΚατὰτῶνΠλήθωνοςἀποριῶνἐπ’ἈριστοτέλειII,inMARTINJUGIE,LOUISPETIT,XÉNOPHONA.SIDÉRIDÈS(eds.),ŒuvrescomplètesdeGeorges(Gennadios)Scholarios.ΓενναδίουτοῦΣχολαρίουἅπαντατὰεὑρισκόμενα,t.IV:PolémiquecontrePléthon–Œuvrespastorales,ascétiques,liturgiques,poétiques–Correspondance–Chronographie,MaisondelaBonnePresse,Paris1935,p.114,17–115,30).Fortheimplicationsofthisnamesee,interalia,JOHNA.DEMETRACOPOULOS,«GeorgiosGennadiosII–Scholarios’FlorilegiumThomisticumII(Defato)anditsanti-PlethonicTenor»,RecherchesdeThéologieetPhilosophiemédiévales,74/2(2007),p.301–376,atp.369,n.307...
  • SeeFRANÇOISMASAI,PléthonetleplatonismedeMistras,LesBellesLettres,Paris1956,p.387;BRIGITTETAMBRUN,Pléthon:leretourdePlaton,Vrin,Paris2006,p.40.Onthedateissue,seethebibliographycollectedinCHRESTOSP.BALOGLOU,ΓεώργιοςΠλήθων–Γεμιστός.Ἐπὶ[sic]τῶνΠελοποννησιακῶνπραγμάτων.Βυζαντινὸκείμενο–μετάφρασις–σχόλια,ΕλεύθερηΣκέψις,Athens2002,p.99.Theissueremainsunsettled;thetextrequiresanannotatedcriticaleditionthatwould,amongothermatters,clarifyitsdate.Nevertheless,thequestionofchronologydoesnotimpactmydiscussion.
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  • Exeditionumnecnoncodicumomniumτοῦcorrexi;erroreximitationeτοῦμὲνemersusessevidetur.
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  • Cf.theexplicatioof«δόλῳ»fromAESCHYLUS’sPrometheusvinctus213as«κολακείᾳ»:«[...]παρό,‘ἀλλὰἐνδόλῳ’·παρό,‘ἀλλὰκολακείᾳ’»(Aeschylitragoediaesuperstitesetdeperditarumfragmenta,t.III:ScholiaGraecaexcodicibusauctaetemendata,ed.WILHELMDINDORF,EtypographeoAcademico,Oxford1851[repr.Olms,Hildesheim1962],p.198).
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  • PLETHON,ΣυμβουλευτικὸςπρὸςτὸνδεσπότηνΘεόδωρονπερὶτῆςΠελοποννήσου26(ed.LAMPROS,vol.IV,p.134,3–16;PG160,col.864B7–C7)
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  • «[...]κύνακαρχαρόδοντακομεῖν,μὴφείδεοσίτου,/μήποτέσ ̓ἡμερόκοιτοςἀνὴρἀπὸχρήμαθ ̓ἕληται[...]»;«[...]getajagged-tootheddog/donotbesparingwithitsfood,lestsomeday-sleepingmanstealyourthingsfromyou»(HESIOD,Theogony.WorksandDays.Testimonia,ed.GLENNW.MOST,HarvardUniversityPress,Cambridge,MA–London2018,p.137
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  • DEMETRACOPOULOS,ΠλήθωνκαὶΘωμᾶςἈκυινάτης,p.76,n.177;TAMBRUN,Pléthon,p.58