GLAJJ: Addenda et Corrigenda

Abstract

Menahem Sternʼs Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism (three volumes, Jerusalem 1974-1984) has justly been praised by all its reviewers. So far as I could see only a few significant additions have been made to his assemblage of texts. However, for the Roman Empire, the material is vast and forbidding: an editor can hardly fail to miss some names and facts, even within restricted categories, whatever his sagacity and industry. The following notes are but the gleanings and corners of the field  and the forgotten sheaf from the rich harvest of a great scholar. In what follows I shall start with texts that doubtlessly, by Sternʼs own criteria, should have been included in the collection, and I shall then proceed to a number of less clear cases. To the best of my knowledge only the first of these texts has been discussed in the present context. The article refers to: Diogenes of Oenoanda III, l. 7 – IV, l. 2; Plut. frg. 187 Sandbach (John of Antioch, Archaeologia I, frg. 19); Vita Aesopi 141;  Diosc. 1.95 (Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei, De materia medica, ed. Max Wellmann, Berlin 1907; Eunapius, Vitae Philosophorum p. 459; Porphyry, History of Philosophy III (Steph. Byz. Γ 12 = FGrH 260 F 12) ; Schol. Pers. 5.176-184 (Commentum Cornuti in Persium, edd. W.V. Clausen, J.E.G. Zetzel, Monachii et Lipsiae 2004); Damasc. Vita Isidori frg. 70 (Phot. Bibl. 242 = FGrH 675 T 3); Varro, Men. frg. 583B ; Plut. Cic. 36.2; GLAJJ II, no. 464n.