Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

这个项目致力于盖伦对希波克拉底格言的评论。这是加伦最重要的评论之一，它对后来的《格言》的解读产生了巨大的影响，《格言》是希波克拉底最著名的著作之一，在后来非常流行，尤其是在伊斯兰医学中。该项目的主要目标是：（1）在对手稿传统进行广泛研究的基础上，提供这部巨著第一至第四卷的希腊语和阿拉伯语版本的第一个批判性版本、翻译和解释;（2）在更广泛的比较视角下，详细研究盖伦作为这部作品和他的其他评论中的评论员的方法和实践，它不仅考虑了加伦在古代评论文学的历史背景下的地位，而且它对反思过去，现在和未来的文本学术评论写作的全球实践的影响。该项目的新奇之处在于：（a）对于这部作品，没有任何现代语言的评论版，也没有任何翻译或评论。(b)在方法上，希腊文本的构成将与阿拉伯文翻译的研究进行定期对话，阿拉伯文翻译将被系统地考虑，并作为其本身和平等基础上的文本证据（而不是在从属于希腊文的临时基础上）。阿拉伯文版本本身也将经过严格编辑，并以硬拷贝和数字及电子搜索格式与希腊文一起概要介绍。因此，该项目与希腊-阿拉伯研究的最新发展以及古典主义者和东方主义者之间日益认识到的团队合作的必要性联系在一起。(c)该项目将在研究加伦作为评论员的做法方面开辟新天地，不从他的希波克拉底主义的角度来看待加伦的评论，而是侧重于他使用评论体裁的形式、文学、论证和战略方面;在这样做的时候，它将采取一个比较的角度，涉及在古代学术的其他领域类似的使用评论格式，例如哲学、神学、文学和法律的评论。由于加伦的评论构成了古代世界最大和最早的评论文学作品之一，因此该项目也将对希腊罗马时代和更普遍的“评论诗学”做出重大贡献。(d)该项目将利用和促进最新的技术和经验，在生产数字多语言版本的经典文本和'智能'注释的体裁功能在相当大的数字文本语料库。

This project is devoted to Galen’s commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. This is one of Galen's most important commentaries, and it exercised enormous influence on later readings of the Aphorisms, which are one of the best known of all the writings attributed to Hippocrates and which were very popular in later times, especially also in Islamic medicine. The project’s principal aims are (1) to provide the first ever critical edition, translation and interpretation of the Greek and the Arabic versions of books I-IV of this voluminous work, based on extensive examination of the manuscript tradition, and (2) to provide detailed study of Galen’s methods and practices as a commentator both in this work and in his other commentaries within a wider comparative perspective, which not only considers Galen’s place in the historical context of ancient commentary literature but also its implications for reflection on global practices of commentary writing in textual scholarship past, present and future. The novelty of the project lies (a) in the fact that for this work, no critical edition and no translation or commentary in any modern language exist. (b) Methodologically, the constitution of the Greek text will take place in regular dialogue with research on the Arabic translation, which will be taken into account systematically and as a textual witness in its own right and on an equal footing (rather than on an ad hoc basis subservient to the Greek). The Arabic version itself will be critically edited as well and presented synoptically alongside the Greek, both in hard copy and in a digital and electronically searchable format. Thus, the project ties in with the most recent developments in Graeco-Arabic studies and with the growing realization of the need for teamwork between classicists and orientalists. (c) The project will break new ground in the study of Galen’s practices as a commentator in approaching Galen’s commentaries not so much from the viewpoint of his Hippocratism, but with a focus on the formal, literary, argumentative and strategic aspects of his use of the commentary genre; in doing so, it will adopt a comparative perspective involving similar uses of the commentary format in other areas of ancient scholarship, such as philosophical, theological, literary and legal commentary. Since Galen’s commentaries constitute one of the largest and earliest surviving bodies of commentary literature by a single author in the ancient world, the project will thus also contribute significantly to a 'poetics of commentary' both in Graeco-Roman times and more generally. (d) The project will make use of, and contribute to, the most recent technology and experience in the production of digital multilingual editions of classical texts and in 'smart' annotation of genre features in sizeable digital text corpora.