GLI EPIGRAMMI 'DI PLATONE'. EDIZIONE, COMMENTO, FORTUNA

This thesis provides a new critical edition and full commentary of the epigrams transmitted under Plato's name. The edition includes for the first time all the epigrams assigned to 'Plato' by the ancient tradition and offers a critical text based on a review of the manuscript tradition and philological work. The commentary provides an in-depth analysis of the epigrams, from both the philological and the literary and exegetical points of view. An introductory study addresses the problem of the epigrams' authenticity by reviewing the scholarly debate on the topic. It also traces the history of Plato's epigrams in antiquity, proposing a reconstruction of relevant context and possible reasons why the epigrams were composed and assigned to Plato.