Nodus Gordianus
(Redirectum de Nodus Gordius)
Nodus Gordianus[1] vel Gordius[2] fuit nodus Gordii in Phrygia, quem Alexander Magnus, cum dissolvere non posset, aut gladio secuit aut (sicut Aristobulus scripserat)[3] claviculam extraxit. Historiam narrant Arrianus, Plutarchus, Q. Curtius, Iustinus.
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Notae recensere
- ↑ Cfr. Leonem I papam, De haeresi et historia Manichaeorum, II, 12: "Hoc enim tamquam gordianum nodum, vel Achilleum argumentum Faustus Augustino objiciebat, ut eam gentilium schismaticorum nuncupationem non tantum abjiceret, sed eos gentilibus multo esse pejores praedicaret."
- ↑ Ludovicus Wechtler, Nodus Gordius Austriae et Hispaniae, 1667; Iacobus Christmann, Nodus Gordius ex doctrina Sinuum explicatus.... 1612; Augustinus Khinl et Hermengildus Ziegler, Theologicus nodus Gordius thomistice enodatus..., 1731, etc.
- ↑ Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) 137 F 7 (vol. 2B pp. 771-772)
Fontes recensere
- Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.3 (Aristobulo De rebus Alexandri Magni citato)
- Plutarchus, Vita Alexandri 18 (Aristobulo De rebus Alexandri Magni citato)
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae 3.1.14-18
- Iustinus, Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi 11.7.15-16
Bibliographia recensere
- Brendan Burke, "Anatolian Origins of the Gordian Knot Legend" in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies vol. 42 (2001) pp. 255–261
- Peter Frei, "Der Wagen von Gordion" in Museum Helveticum vol. 29 (1972) pp. 110–123
- Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) vol. 2 "Kommentar" (1930) p. 511
- Lynn E. Roller, "Midas and the Gordian Knot" in Classical Antiquity vol. 3 (1984) pp. 256–271
- Rudolf Schubert, Beiträge zur Kritik der Alexanderhistoriker (Lipsiae: Dieterich, 1922) p. 1 ff.
- W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great. Vol. 2: Sources and studies (Cantabrigiae, 1948) pp. 262-265
- Michael Zahrnt, "Alexander in Gordion und die Entstehung einer Legende" in Stephanie Böhm, Klaus Valtin von Eickstedt, edd., Ithake. Festschrift für Jörg Schäfer zum 75. Geburtstag am 25. April 2001 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2001) pp. 203–206