AcadHist · Philodemus' History of the Academy: Groundwork for a New Innovative Critical Edition
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2016-07-01 → 2018-06-30
- EU contribution
- €168,277
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Philodemus' History of the Academy: Groundwork for a New Innovative Critical Edition
Philodemus’ 'History of the Academy', which is handed down by two Herculaneum papyri (PHerc. 1691/1021 and PHerc. 164), preserve much otherwise lost information about the development of the Platonic Academy, from Plato himself to Antiochus and Aristus of Ascalon. The research of the last two decades has shown that a new innnovative critical edition of it is a strong desideratum and may produce an essentially improved text, with an expected impact on our knowledge of Platonism and Academic philosophy. The main goal of the project was to lay the foundation for precisely this new edition, paving the way for a new method of editing Herculanean texts. This objective has not only fully been achieved, but has essentiallybeen overcome. In fact, a complete new critical edition of the text handed down by PHerc. 1691/1021 and PHerc. 164 has been produced, which is already becoming normative among scholars. The new text has revealed a lot of highly intriguing and substantial information about Academic philosophers, which is of great relevance for historians of ancient philosophy and literature, philologists and papyrologists likewise. Our understanding of the development of the Platonic Academy and its most prominent figures is of outstanding importance for the history of European culture, in whose foundation Greek philosophy, in particular that of Plato, has played a fundamental role. The new critical edition of Philodemus’ 'History of the Academy' prepared by the fellow is now being endowed with extensive introduction and commentary and is going to be submitted to a leading series of Greek texts and commentaries for publication. The overall objectives of the project were: 1. Bibliological reconstruction of PHerc. 1691/1021 and PHerc. 164. 2. Reading and manual transcription of them. 3. Text reconstruction of the book. 4. Collaborative review in progress of the new critical edition. 5. Publication of partial editions.
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Project objective
Philodemus’ 'History of the Academy' (PHerc. 1021/1691 and PHerc. 164) contains much otherwise lost information about the development of the Academic school and its most prominent figures, from Plato to Antiochus and Aristus of Ascalon. Now, the research of the last eighteen years has shown that the last edition of this book may considerably be improved upon. This, contrasted with the current availability of pioneering techniques for reading papyri and the possibility of developing completely new and more promising ones, makes it a desideratum of the research to produce a new modern critical edition of this unique book. The primary goal of this project is to lay the foundation for precisely this new edition, paving the way for a new method of editing Herculanean texts. To achieve this goal, the supervisor will directly coach the applicant and work together with him on a daily basis in order to transfer him all the specific papyrological, palaeographical and philological competences necessary for its immediate preparation. In particular, a) they will reconstruct the original anatomy of the roll; b) they will read and transcribe the original text; c) they will produce a reliable and updated critical text through a new editorial system; d) they will produce an open-access electronic edition of it through a dedicated open-source digital platform, engaging the scholarly community in an on-going and on-line collaborative review in progress of it; e) they will submit significant portions of the new critical text, with introduction and commentary, to top-ranking peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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