The Morphing Portrait of a Church Father: Evidence from the de morte (CPG 4886) Attributed to John Chrysostom

• Authors: Muehlberger Ellen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article investigates the ecloga of passages on death collected from works attributed to John Chrysostom and preserved in New College Manuscript 83, which is classifi ed as CPG 4886. It describes New College Manuscript 83, the contents of its ecloga on death, and provides a direct comparison of this ecloga with another on death published in Patrologia Graeca 63; then the article refl ects on what the New College Manuscript ecloga can reveal about the users who created it and their ideas about its use. Because this ecloga attempts to preserve the original location of each passage it cites, and because its author explicitly labeled the rhetorical form of speech-in-character when it appeared, we can speculate that its creators were invested in rhetoric and the preservation of Chrysostom’s authority as the composer of specifi c individual works. This allows us to see that the ecloga confl ates its creator’s intellectual frameworks with those of late antiquity, in effect retrojecting the processes of knowledge creation and preservation so prevalent in the Byzantine era back into Chrysostom’s time.

Keywords

EN

John Chrysostom; death; ecloga/eclogae; rhetoric; speech-in-character

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 407–419

Contributors

author

Muehlberger Ellen

• Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History, University of Michigan, 4163 STB, 202 S. Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48014 USA