La incorporación de los proverbios de Menandro a la tradición cultural eslava medieval

Abstract

In this thesis, I have two goals. First, I study the Slavic proverbs attributed to Menander as evidence for medieval Slavic translational praxis and textual transmission processes. Second, I investigate selected keywords in the proverbs as documentation of the medieval Orthodox Slavic— in particular, monastic—worldview, as normative texts that were copied in order to instruct the readers how to live. I conduct the analysis using wellestablished philological methods—collation of manuscript witnesses (both Greek and Slavic), linguistic analysis of orthographic phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variation, and close reading of case studies.