Malim, Asteriskus und fragezeichen: einige wore zur verteidung und zum lobe von Gregorios N. Bernardakîs

Abstract

Immediately after its publication, the edition of Plutarch’s Moralia by Gregorios Bernardakis (1888-1896) has been strongly criticized, to say the least, by Wilamowitz, who inaugurated the new Teubner-edition (1925ff.). Bernardakis is attacked by Wilamowitz and Pohlenz, who wrote the preface to the new Teubeneriana, because he chose the Parisinus 1956, D, to be the fundament of his Plutarch. The following article tries to prove that D was a reasonable choice. Four of the proudly presented examples, that Pohlenz hopes will convince the reader of the superiority of the Vw/gata-tradion, will hopefully show that D resp. the Bemardakis-edition may have the more Plutarchan text. The article begins with a sceptical description of the expectations Wilamowitz and most of his contemporaries connected with a Lachmann-style recensio.