Le edizioni dei classici greci

This paper proposes a survey of the editions of Greek authors published on behalf of the “Comitato dei Classici” of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei from 1933 to the present day. Rooted in the philological tradition going back to Girolamo Vitelli, many of these works successfully build on the concept of ‘open recension’, developed by Giorgio Pasquali in his masterpiece Storia della tradizione e critica del testo. The series of the Greek editions shows thus an unceasing effort to strike a balance between the attempt to reconstruct medieval archetypes of whole traditions and the detection of ever new extra-stemmatic veins of tradition which preserve the memory of more ancient editions circulating in late antiquity or even earlier.