The Christianising effect which comes most immediately to mind is in Apuleius in the Cena, where the mss read : abbas secrevit. This was emended by ?? (text not to hand, sorry) to read: ab asse crevit.
Lyn Straka > -----Original Message----- > From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VIRGIL: wirgil and augustus/result of aeneid > > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > edu>, RANDI C ELDEVIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Misinformation like this should not go uncorrected on Mantovano, but > I > >can't remain any longer at my desk right now. Would someone like to > >explain what is wrong here? > >Thanks, > >Randi Eldevik > >On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, KIMBERLY ANN SANTORA wrote: > > > >> All I know is that augustus asked him to write it, and I know from > >> translating it last yr that there are certain passages in it > alluding to > >> and praising him. I do not know them offhand, could look though if > u need > >> it. I dont know about political sit. at that time, but had affect > effect? > > on > >> later medieval life: most books from virgils time burnt b/cause of > pagan > >> beliefs in them, > > No they were not. A lot of texts weren't copied because they no longer > seemed relevant, but that is quite different. There are odd cases of > censorship by scribes, such as a branch of the Martial tradition that > suppresses heterosexual but not homosexual obscenity; there are also > places where Christian words slip into a scribe's mind in place of the > one he should have copied, but that is a matter of words, not of > ideas. > Proof: in Manilius 1. 742 > > laudatique cadit post paulum gratia ponti > > and the beauty of the sea, which has (just) been praised, soon falls > away > > the words 'paulum' and 'gratia' caused a scribe to write 'christi' > instead of 'ponti'; had he been attempting to say (like modern > trendies) > that the grace of Christ falls away after Paul, i.e. that Paul > denatured > Christianity, he would have been playing with fire. > > Perhaps other listmembers would like to contribute scribal > Christianism > they have encountered (I have some others). > > I do know an old tale that a Patriarch of Constantinople (I think) > destroyed the poetry of Sappho as immoral, but it is no longer taken > seriously; it is certainly true that in the fifteenth century > Gennadios > Scholarios read, admired, and burnt an allegedly neo-pagan work by his > late friend George Gemistos Plethon. > > > but not aeneid b/c many thought there was a paragraph > >> prophesizing christ > > No: it was the fourth eclogue of the Bucolics. > > Leofranc Holford-Strevens > > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- > *- > > Leofranc Holford-Strevens > 67 St Bernard's Road usque > adeone > Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat > alter? > OX2 6EJ > > > tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 > 512237 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (work) > > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > -* > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). > You > can also unsubscribe at > http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
