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Document Details : Title: L'importante découverte de deux traités d'Évagre le Pontique sous le nom de Maxime le Confesseur en géorgien Author(s): OUTTIER, Bernard , GÉHIN, Paul Journal: Le Muséon Volume: 135 Issue: 3-4 Date: 2022 Pages: 393-416 DOI: 10.2143/MUS.135.3.3291201 Abstract : During his research work on the heritage of Maximos the Confessor in Georgian literature, Ekvtime K'oč'lamazašvili has discovered and edited a strange text entitled 'Answers of the holy Maximos the Confessor to questions of/from the priest Thalassios'. This composition has nothing to do with the Quaestiones ad Thalassium by Maximos (CPG 7688). In fact it turned out to be the reunion of two works of Evagrius Ponticus: the De octo spiritibus malitiae (CPG 2451) and the Antirrheticus (CPG 2434). The article aims to draw specialists’ attention to the importance of this discovery, for the diffusion of Evagrius’ works in oriental languages, as well as for the history of translations from Greek into Georgian (the author of this editing seems to be Ekvtime Atoneli/Euthymios Hagiorites). The article seeks to analyse and translate the Letter-Preface, which is reported to be a Letter by Maximos to Thalassios, but in fact derives from three different sources: one Letter by Evagrius, one Cathechesis by Theodoros Stoudites, and the very Preface to the Antirrheticus (the Georgian editor had only identified the third element). |
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