Plato. Ion Or: On the Iliad

On the basis of a fresh collation of the four primary manuscripts, this book presents a revised text of Plato's Ion, with full apparatus criticus. The commentary has a strong linguistic orientation; it includes discussions of Platonic vocabulary. Linguistic considerations are also the leading principle in the choice of one MS reading rather than another. Drawing on Byzantine practices and theories, the book pays special attention to questions of punctuation, an area too often ignored in editions of classical texts. The extensive introduction deals with, inter alia, Plato's attack on poetry, the position of the Ion in the corpus Platonicum—rather late, this book argues—, the title(s) of the dialogue, the reasons why MS Venetus 189 should be considered a primary MS, and the text of the Homeric quotations in the Ion.

This book presents a revised text of Plato's Ion, with full apparatus criticus, and an extensive commentary, with a linguistic orientation. Linguistic considerations are also the leading principle in the choice of one MS reading rather than another. Special attention is paid to questions of punctuation.

Albert Rijksbaron, Ph.D. 1976, is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, and presently a Research Fellow at the same university. His publications include The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek, Grammatical Observations on Euripides' Bacchae, and The Kellis Isocrates Codex (with K.A. Worp).