Who wrote Venetus A?
Who wrote Venetus A?
Bessarion collected over a thousand books in the fifteenth century, including the only complete text of Athenaios’ Deipnosophistai; the autograph of Planudes’ Greek Anthology; and Venetus A.
Where is the Iliad manuscript?
The images allow unprecedented access to three manuscripts of the Iliad, now housed in the Marciana Library in Venice, Italy: the tenth-century Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 (= 822), the eleventh-century Marcianus Graecus Z. 453 (= 821), and the twelfth/thirteenth-century Marcianus Graecus Z. 458 (= 841).
Where is Venetus A?
The Homer Multitext (HMT) edition of the manuscript Marciana 822 (= Marcianus Graecus Z. 454), the 10th-century manuscript of the Iliad known to scholars as the Venetus A and now housed in Venice’s Marciana library, does just that.
What is the oldest manuscript of the Iliad?
Venetus A
Venetus A (Marciana 454 = 822) The manuscript Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence.
When was the Iliad first discovered?
Scholarly consensus mostly places it in the 8th century BC, although some favour a 7th-century date. In any case, the terminus ante quem for the dating of the Iliad is 630 BC, as evidenced by reflection in art and literature.
What was the Odyssey originally written on?
The original work may not have been constructed into the 24 books known to the contemporary reader, and the parts were certainly not in codex form. In the ancient world, the poem was likely written in columns on rolls made from papyrus, or possibly some kind of animal skin (such as vellum and parchment).
Who wrote Iliad?
Homer
Iliad/Authors
Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. If Homer did in fact compose the works, he is one of the greatest literary artists in the world, and, through these poems, he affected Western standards and ideas.
