title: Theocritus: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
author: Hunter
description: "Recommended for all libraries in institutions where there is a strong Greek program." James W. Halporn, Religious Studies Review<br /><br />"An important and welcome contribution to the scholarship on Theocritus as well as on Hellenisti literature in general." Classical World
zlib_text: INTRODUCTION 
  1. TRANSMISSION 
  Secondary tradition of Theophilus' Ad Autoljcum 
  is limited to a few 
  borrowings by Irenaeus of Lyons,1 to three brief passages in a Catena 
  published by Marcel Richard,2 and to four short excerpts in Sacra parallela 
  by John of Damascus.3 In addition, Theophilus' excerpts from Josephus 
  (Contra Apionem I) in 3.20 — 22 and 29 are worth mentioning. 
  V: The only extant manuscript of Theophilus with independent value 
  is Venetus Marcianus gr. 496 (collocazione 843), which once belonged to 
  Cardinal Bessarion and was donated by him to the Venetian Senate in 1468 
  (MS Nr. 92).4 Membranaceus, fol. AB+ 185, end of the Xlth century. Size 
  290 χ 230 mm, δίστοιχος, each column 225 x 80 mm, consisting of 42 lines. 
  V comprises seven treatises (Theophilus' is the last one): 
  1. Gregory of Nyssa, Antirrheticus 
  adv. Apollinarem 
  (f. lr—29r). 
  2. Eusebius, Adv. Marceilum libri duo (f. 29 v-47 v). 
  3. Eusebius, De ecclesiastica 
  theologia libri tres (f. 48r—91v).5 
  4. P