Clement of Alexandria I: Protrepticus and Paedagogus

The same are all found in the Mut. III. D. 7 to be mentioned shortly. Since I have dealt in detail with the scholia, their character, and their sources in my investigations into the scholia of Clement of Alexandria, only the following should be noted here. Baanes took the scholia he wrote from the source. Their author was a Christian grammarian of about the 5th century, for whom it was most important to gloss rare expressions or to tell the respective stories regarding names from mythology and legend. In doing so, he used sources that are now lost to us, e.g., Diogenianos and other grammarians, from whom he also took quotes from Alcman, Euphorion, Cratinus, Menander, Panyassis, and others. His explanations were likely prompted by the fact that the Protrepticus was read in Christian schools¹. In individual pieces, particularly in the story of Arion (pp. 295, 11—296, 6), the strict rhythmic structure is striking. The Baanes-scholia are limited almost entirely to the Protrepticus; for the Paedagogus, only the short glosses at 328, 24 f; 329, 29; 330, 1; 334, 33; 338, 1—3 are found. Arethas, on the other hand, composed the marginal notes written by him (with the possible exception of the scholion mentioned above on p. 314, 24—28) himself. They have the same character as the notes in the other manuscripts that have come down to us from his library, cf. above p. XVIII. His marginal notes are almost entirely worthless for the knowledge of antiquity and the understanding of Clement, but they increase our knowledge of the diligent, diversely well-read man to whom we owe the preservation of important works of antiquity alone. The sources of his marginal notes are, besides Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the most well-known authors of the classical period, above all Photius and Pollux (cf. the index of passages at the end of this volume), even if he cites neither the one nor the other. The longest scholion of Arethas, an allegorical interpretation of two verses from the Blessing of Jacob, Gen. 49, 11 f, stands in F and M at p. 99, 9 f, where Gen. 49, 11 is cited. In P, this part of the manuscript is now missing, but the scholion stands with slight deviations on f. 402. 403 (cf. above p. XVII). Arethas seems to have drafted his treatise here and only then written it on the margin of the Paedagogus. Cf. on this von Gebhardt, op. cit., p. 169 f; my investigations on the scholia, p. 24—29.

1. Professor E. Schwartz draws my attention to the fact that the best analogy to the old Clement-scholia are the old commentaries on Gregory's sermons. They, too, explain rare words, difficult passages, and write the stories in the margin; for the poems there are paraphrases; all of this is sure proof of school reading.