Corrections, Conjectures, and Additions to Michael Psellus, Epistulae (Berlin and Boston, 2019)
Corrections, Conjectures, and Additions to Michael Psellus, Epistulae (Berlin and Boston, 2019)

Summary/Abstract: The first complete critical edition of Psellos’ letters, published in 2019, contains errors – the editor confesses, with regret. Errors were to some degree inevitable given the extent and complexity of the edited text, yet one always hopes to avoid as many of them as one is able prior to publication. Still, it could be that, only once a book acquires its existence as a printed work, deficiencies become apparent. Or perhaps the old dictum still stands that “the lover is blind toward what he loves” (Plato, Laws 731e5–6; Psellos, Letter 170,13–14). Whatever the case, the present article is a collaborative effort which hopes to restore as many of these shortcomings as possible, so as to allow readers to fully appreciate Psellos’ literary art and use of Greek and also to prepare the ground for the still needed translation of the Psellian letter-corpus into a modern language.

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