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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

Edited by: Susanne Daub, Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen and Clemens Zintzen

ISSN: 1616-0452

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Volumes

The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Author / Editor information

S. Daub, Univ. Jena, M. Erler, Univ. Würzburg; D. Gall, Univ. Bonn; L. Koenen, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; C. Zintzen, Univ. Köln.

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Ciceros römische Philosophie

Werk und Wirkung eines akademischen Philosophen in Rom

Meinolf Vielberg

Volume 411 in this series

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Recently, a new idea of Cicero has emerged, which once against takes Cicero seriously as an academic philosopher. This is the starting point for these studies on his works and impact, which show how the Roman philosopher developed an innovative form of skeptical philosophy in his dialogues, thereby making an essential contribution to the transformation of philosophy and scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111156545
ISBN:: 9783111156545
ISBN:: 9783111159898
ISBN:: 9783111154336
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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L’émergence du ›crimen raptus‹ à Rome

Le système du Pseudo-Quintilien entre rhétorique judiciaire et ›ius‹

Néphélé Papakonstantinou

Volume 418 in this series

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This book offers the first analysis of the rape of women of marriageable age (raptus virginum) in ancient Rome. This is a subject about which the legal sources preserved in Justinian's Digest provide us with very little, and not unequivocal, information. The aim is to reveal the intellectual and argumentative practices that led to the emergence of the crime of rape (crimen raptus) in Pseudo-Quintilian’s school of rhetoric (turn of the first century AD), prior to its normalisation as a violent crime (crimen vis) by the jurisprudence of the Severan age (beginning of the third century AD). To this end, the author examines in depth the most salient aspects of the system of principles and rules into which Pseudo-Quintilian places the concept of sexual violence: the definition of the unlawful act, the application of the procedure, the function of penalties, the meaning of the law, the notion of criminal responsibility and the controversial issue of the victim's consent. Drawing on a diversified epistemological framework, the book achieves a critical synthesis between the traditional dogmatic approach and the anthropology of law, providing innovative answers to questions regarded by historians who have dealt with the subject-master of rape in Rome as closed or futile.

Inscrit dans la mouvance internationale dédiée aux interactions entre déclamations juridiques et droit romain, cet ouvrage offre la première analyse du viol des femmes nubiles (raptus virginum), en révélant les pratiques intellectuelles qui ont amené à l’émergence du crime de viol (crimen raptus) dans l’école de rhétorique du Pseudo-Quintilien, en amont de sa normalisation comme crime violent par la jurisprudence de l’âge sévérien.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111544656
ISBN:: 9783111544656
ISBN:: 9783111544052
ISBN:: 9783111545448
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro

Mirabilia e violenza al di qua e al di là dell’Indo

Francesca Piccioni, Elisabetta Poddighe, Tiziana Pontillo

Volume 417 in this series

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This volume contains 18 papers presented at the International Conference "Mirabilia and violence around the Indus. The last years of Alexander the Great in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit literary reception", held at the University of Cagliari (8-10 March 2023). Divided into three thematic sections (Il mondo classico; L'India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento), the essays differ in the linguistic varieties of the primary sources analysed, in the chronological range from the first Hellenism to the Renaissance, and in the approach adopted, historical or philological-literary. However, a common thread runs through all the works: the reception of Alexander from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation of the king as a 'philosopher in arms' and an unbridled conqueror. With contributions from several experts in the specific subject and in the various disciplines involved, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach that can stimulate scholars and students in a variety of fields.

Il volume raccoglie 18 contributi, ordinati in tre sezioni tematiche (Il mondo classico; L’India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento). Si tratta di lavori differenti per varietà delle fonti, cronologia (dal primo Ellenismo all’Umanesimo) e approccio (storico e filologico-letterario), in un ideale dialogo tra cultori di discipline diverse e tra Occidente e Oriente antico, nella prospettiva unificante degli studi sulla ricezione di Alessandro Magno.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111427614
ISBN:: 9783111427614
ISBN:: 9783111427836
ISBN:: 9783111407944
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Die Welt des neulateinischen Barockdichters Jakob Balde

30 Studien

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 416 in this series

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Der elsässische Dichter Jakob Balde (1604–1668), der in Ingolstadt in den Jesuitenorden eintrat und nach Aufenthalten in Landsberg, München und Innsbruck Hofprediger am Münchner Hof wurde, gilt vielen Forscher/-innen als der bedeutendste deutsche neulateinische Dichter. Er schuf während dieser Zeit und weiterer Stationen (Landshut, Amberg, Neuburg) ein weitverzweigtes Werk (Lyrik, Hymnus, medizinische und weltliche Satire, Elegie, Drama, Tragödie).

Die 30 Beiträge, von denen 11 erstmals veröffentlicht werden, untersuchen Werke aus allen Schaffensperioden und vermitteln das Bild eines gelehrten und zugleich feinsinnigen Dichters, dem es gelingt, ein modernes Weltbild mit Hilfe antiker Strukturen zu vermitteln. Die Texte werden jeweils übersetzt und interpretiert, um die Welt des stets originell diskutierenden Autors zu erhellen.

Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Rezeption Baldes, insofern zwei bisher nicht beachtete Zeugnisse vorgestellt werden: Die Parodie der Expeditio polemico-poëtica (1664) durch den Altdofer Gelehrten Magnus Daniel Omeis (De Castello Ineptae Eloquentiae ab Oratoribus et Historicis veteribus ac novis expugnato, 1677) und das Festspiel Cithara Jacobi Baldei, das die Freiburger Universität 1769 aufführte.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111414546
ISBN:: 9783111414546
ISBN:: 9783111405575
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute

Akten der ersten internationalen Tagung des ZAZH – Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich, UZH, 2020

Christoph Riedweg, Riccarda Schmid, Andreas Victor Walser, Benedetta Foletti, Camille Semenzato

Volume 415 in this series

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In light of the evident global rise of populist tendencies in recent years, it seems reasonable to ask whether there were political currents in classical Athens and then in the Hellenist poleis that could qualify as populist today, and how they manifested themselves. The volume asks this question in constant dialogue with the present and modern political science research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111339610
ISBN:: 9783111339610
ISBN:: 9783111323558
ISBN:: 9783111339740
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Political Ideologies and Ideas
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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La tradizione testuale dei ›Discorsi sacri‹ di Elio Aristide

Marco Settecase

Volume 414 in this series

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The book examines the manuscript and printed tradition of Aristides’ Sacred Tales, on the basis of an integral collation of all witnesses. Thanks to the data collected and to the paleographic reexamination of the codices, it is now possible to offer, in addition to a series of contributions on the language and style of the work, a stemmatic reconstruction of its textual tradition and a picture of its fortune from antiquity to the present day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111242736
ISBN:: 9783111242736
ISBN:: 9783111242989
ISBN:: 9783111240930
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Körperlichkeit im theurgischen Neuplatonismus

Immanente Pforten zur Transzendenz

Felix Herkert

Volume 413 in this series

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This volume examines certain transformations associated with the concept of theurgy in late ancient Neoplatonism. Theurgy is understood above all as the search for immanent media to embody divine powers. It implies a fundamentally positive relationship to corporeality, the world of the senses, and matter, and is thus more about integrating corporeal layers of reality than about escaping the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111248042
ISBN:: 9783111248042
ISBN:: 9783111248523
ISBN:: 9783111246017
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Römische Rezeptionen der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike

Festschrift für Bardo M. Gauly

Gregor Bitto, Anna Ginestí Rosell, Jonas Ludäscher

Volume 412 in this series

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Different receptions permeated Roman culture in all phases of its formation and development. This included, firstly, Greek-Hellenistic culture as the great initial template and broadened into self-determination through self-reception in the imperial period. This volume delves into these receptions from the perspective of ancient history, archaeology, and philological literary studies, and includes their impact in the twenty-first century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111242750
ISBN:: 9783111242750
ISBN:: 9783111242910
ISBN:: 9783111238494
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Proclo – Lo stile e il sistema della teologia

Miriam Cutino

Volume 410 in this series

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Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the face of the gradual rise of Christianity.
His writing bears witness not only to one of the most influential metaphysical representations for the constitution of the idea of a philosophical "system" based on a complex "language game" based on the conceptual sphere of "order" and "unity", but also of an attempt to reconcile rhetorics with philosophy. In the three chapters in which the book is structured (style, system, unity), then, a conscious intention is evident in Proclus, to adapt the content of his systematic metaphysics to literary form. Hence there is a consistency traced in Proclus' stylistic choices , with the aesthetic norms of a rhetorical canon, probably established in the cycle of readings of the Neoplatonic school.
The way in which expressive "art" is subordinated in Proclus to philosophy is one of the most emblematic examples of a development in late antiquity, that of the enkuklios paideia – the union of all the arts necessary for the formation of man – that would later constitute in the Latin world the cycle of liberal arts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111087085
ISBN:: 9783111087085
ISBN:: 9783111087214
ISBN:: 9783111084978
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
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The ›Epigramma Paulini‹

Critical Edition with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary

Roberto Chiappiniello

Volume 409 in this series

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This is the first full-scale critical edition of the Epigramma Paulini, with English translation and commentary.

The Epigramma Paulini (110 hexameters) is a late-antique poem of unknown date and authorship (arguably written during the first decade of the fifth century AD), preserved by only one (Carolingian) manuscript. While the outside world is torn by outbreaks of war and social unrest, the poem’s three characters discuss people’s behavior and reaction to the crisis. What should one change to stop social and political decline? What hope does one have to end the crisis and to rebuild a new society? These are some of the questions the three characters of the poem strive to answer.

In recent years, scholars have paid some attention to this piece, mainly drawn to it by a singular insertion of satire within the frame of Vergil’s pastoral model; however, no close study of the poem had been published. This first critical edition provides an in-depth exploration of the poem’s message and its innovative contribution to the reception of classical, pagan literature in a Christian context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110982381
ISBN:: 9783110982381
ISBN:: 9783110996173
ISBN:: 9783110982930
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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La traduzione latina del ‹Nicocles› isocrateo di Guarino Veronese

Introduzione, edizione critica e commento

Alessia Grillone, Giancarlo Abbamonte

Volume 408 in this series

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This volume presents the editio princeps of the Latin version of the Isocratic Nicocles composed by the humanist Guarino Veronese. The edition, complete with Italian translation and commentary notes, is preceded by an introduction that places text within its cultural context. The volume concludes with descriptions of all the manuscripts and observations on the Greek model, the translation method and the author's lexicon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792867
ISBN:: 9783110792867
ISBN:: 9783110792911
ISBN:: 9783110791167
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Cherilo di Iaso

Testimonianze, frammenti, fortuna

Marco Pelucchi

Volume 407 in this series

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In the current revival of studies on Alexander the Great, literature has until now neglected – also because of the scarcity of testimonies – its ‘poetic’ side. Choerilus of Iasus, the most important among the poets who accompanied Alexander’s endeavours, represents no exception. For this reason, the book delivers a complete study of Choerilus’ works, life and (mis-)fortune. By doing so, it reassesses philologically and historically a blind spot in present-day research and therefore illuminates further the field of Alexandrography as well as its literary reception. The volume entails first of all a new edition of all the testimonies and fragments pertaining to Choerilus of Iasus, updating and expanding the latest collection edited by H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons in the Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983). Following up, the book develops in four chapters an analysis and discussion of the texts collected in the critical edition. The fifth concluding chapter retraces and contextualises the history of modern studies, from the Renaissance on, concerning the elusive figure of Choerilus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747041
ISBN:: 9783110747041
ISBN:: 9783110747089
ISBN:: 9783110746600
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Maximianus’ ‘Elegies’

Love Elegy Grew Old

Vasileios Pappas

Volume 406 in this series

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This book is the first study to focus on a metaliterary interpretation of Maximianus’ Elegies, and aims to fill a major gap in international literature concerning the thoughts of the last love elegist on the evolution and renovation of the genre of love elegy during Late Antiquity.

The book includes all known subjects of Maximianus’ poetry (e.g., the division of his work into six elegies, its attribution to Cornelius Gallus by Pomponius Gauricus in 1502, its reception in recent years, the intellectual milieu of the Ostrogothic Italy, the historical contextualization of his poetry, the Appendix Maximiani, the impact of the Augustan love elegy (and especially Ovid’s) upon it, etc.), in order to offer a more complete picture of it. However, the content of the book is predominantly prototype, as it examines subjects that have not previously been discussed in the past. These include: a) The generic interaction between the ‘host’ genre of love elegy, and several ‘guest’ genres (e.g., Roman comedy, epic, pastoral); b) The hidden metapoetic discourse regarding the genre of love elegy itself.

The book is intended for scholars or students working on or interested in Roman love elegy and its generic evolution in Late Antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770476
ISBN:: 9783110770476
ISBN:: 9783110770612
ISBN:: 9783110770377
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Der Homerische Mythos und die Grundlagen neuplatonischer Theologie

Proklos’ Traktat über die Dichtung Homers [in R. I 69-205]. Übersetzung und Kommentar

Daniel Muhsal

Volume 405 in this series

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This volume presents the first German translation of the sixth tract from Proclus’ Politeia commentary. The text is flanked by an extensive commentary, which situates it within the systematic context of Neoplatonic philosophy. The tract is the central source of our knowledge on the Neoplatonic theory of poetry and allegorical technique, which this volume makes available to a wider audience for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788037
ISBN:: 9783110788037
ISBN:: 9783110788228
ISBN:: 9783110787283
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
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Fragmented Memory

Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History

Nicoletta Bruno, Martina Filosa, Giulia Marinelli

Volume 404 in this series

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Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts – or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and literary memory, where the voluntary awareness of obscuring is often part of a precise aim, thus leading the cultural memory of a literate society to become fragmented. The present volume explores the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a different facet of the topic: ‘Mechanisms and criteria of textual loss and selection’, ‘Lost texts re-discovered’, ‘Voluntary omissions and desire for oblivion’, and ‘Re-working the known’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742046
ISBN:: 9783110742046
ISBN:: 9783110742091
ISBN:: 9783110740387
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
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Peripatetic Philosophy in Context

Knowledge, Time, and Soul from Theophrastus to Cratippus

Francesco Verde

Volume 403 in this series

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This book deals with some Aristotelian philosophers of the Hellenistic Age, ranging from Theophrastus of Eresus to Cratippus of Pergamum. The problem of knowledge, the question of time, and the doctrine of the soul are investigated by comparing these Peripatetics’ views with Aristotle’s philosophy, and above all by setting their doctrines within the broader framework of post-Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophies (the Old Academy, Epicureanism, and Stoicism).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110772722
ISBN:: 9783110772722
ISBN:: 9783110772791
ISBN:: 9783110772548
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
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Book 2023

Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus

A Philological Commentary of Bibl. III.1-56 and a Study into the Composition and Organization of the Handbook

Johanna Astrid Michels

Volume 402 in this series

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The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610529
ISBN:: 9783110610529
ISBN:: 9783110602791
ISBN:: 9783110610222
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
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Die Helfer der Vernunft

Lijuan Lin

Volume 401 in this series

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Ever since Dodd applied the concept of "shame culture" to Greek culture, Greek studies scholars have been paying special attention to the topic of shame. This volume is now the first to provide a systematic examination of shame in Plato, revealing that Plato did not view shame and related emotions as negative, as has been traditionally assumed, but by all means acknowledged the positive role that they play in a range of different areas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759822
ISBN:: 9783110759822
ISBN:: 9783110759969
ISBN:: 9783110759662
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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IV Zu Homer, Platon, Thukydides und Paulus

Mit einem autobiographischen Brief

Norbert Blößner, Peter Roth

Part of the multi-volume work Gesammelte Schriften

Volume 400 in this series

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This volume brings together shorter essays on Homer’s Iliad, Plato, Thucydides, and Paul, written by the Regensburg Greek studies professor Ernst Heitsch († 2019) between 2001 and 2017. It thus continues on from the first three volumes of the Collected Writings begun by the author himself.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750454
ISBN:: 9783110750454
ISBN:: 9783110750485
ISBN:: 9783110749007
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Lectures plurielles du «De ira» de Sénèque

Interprétations, contextes, enjeux

Valéry Laurand, Ermanno Malaspina, François Prost

Volume 399 in this series

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The aim of the book is to encourage discussion among experts on De ira, a text of philosophical nature, by reading it page by page, from a philosophical, philological, and literary perspective (a multidisciplinary choice which is the conditio sine qua non of all judicious research on Seneca).

Moreover, the way in which each of these close readings is conducted adds an additional value: they each deal with a section of the text, presenting all the data necessary for its understanding. All together, they cover the whole work. Each of them is also an attempt at a global interpretation of the treatise, examined through the particular framing of the textual passage around which the “Lectures plurielles” are conceived.

Around this “polyphonic” analysis of the text, we have built a structure that aims to offer the reader a complete reference work on all the issues of the De ira. Sources, manuscript tradition, images, political and philosophical concepts, posterity – in short, all the aspects that a traditional commentary of the text would not have allowed us to distinguish so clearly – find their place here.

This book is therefore aimed at specialists as well as students or anyone interested in the thought of emotions in antiquity.

Un livre de référence sur le De ira de Sénèque qui offre, en privilégiant la multiplicité des voix, un commentaire de l'intégralité du traité, complété d'une vue d'ensemble sur la colère comme objet d'enquête philosophique dans l'antiquité.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711547
ISBN:: 9783110711547
ISBN:: 9783110711646
ISBN:: 9783110711431
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Die Reue als Proprium des Menschen

Die Frage nach der Möglichkeit der Umkehr in der christlichen und nichtchristlichen Philosophie der Antike

Ercole Erculei

Volume 398 in this series

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Numerous ancient Christian authors puts the concepts of regret and reversal at the center of their writings. These reflections have been largely overlooked in studies on the history of philosophy to date. In contrast, this study would like to draw attention to the significance of these deliberations on the concept of regret for the history of philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110739954
ISBN:: 9783110739954
ISBN:: 9783110740042
ISBN:: 9783110736809
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Praxis - Handeln und Handelnde in antiker Philosophie

Akten des 6. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2019

Friedemann Buddensiek, Sebastian Odzuck

Volume 397 in this series

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The papers in this volume provide insights into the diverse discussions surrounding questions of agent and action theory in ancient philosophy, from the fifth century BCE up into late antiquity. It focuses on factors relevant to action such as the soul; the relationship between agents, actions, and goals; the rationality relevant to action; and taking action in the community.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110735598
ISBN:: 9783110735598
ISBN:: 9783110738674
ISBN:: 9783110735673
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

La ›Kompendienliteratur‹ nella scuola di Epicuro

Forme, funzioni, contesto

Vincenzo Damiani

Volume 396 in this series

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Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus’ acts of summary, thereby closing a long-standing scholarly lacuna. To this end, a review of existing research is followed by an analysis of the terminology used in antiquity to designate philosophical and scientific compendia. The Epicurean sources are then surveyed chronologically. In two further chapters, Epicurean compendia are discussed in the broader context of ancient philosophical summaries. Their patterns of genre are illuminated not only on the basis of Epicurus’ own remarks but through related texts, in which authors explain the principles undergirding their own ‘poetics of abridgement’. The concluding chapter advances an updated summary of Epicurus’ fragmentary "On Nature", interpreting his compendia not merely as sources for reconstructing the main treatise, but as texts with literary value in their own right. This monograph therefore provides the first complete presentation of Epicurean philosophical compendia, arguing for an interpretation of the rhetoric of philosophical texts while also being informed by metaliterary details afforded by other ancient sources.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711585
ISBN:: 9783110711585
ISBN:: 9783110711691
ISBN:: 9783110711462
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Other Genres
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Utopias in Ancient Thought

Pierre Destrée, Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam

Volume 395 in this series

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This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume's central vocation and originality comes from our taking on that theme in many other philosophical authors and literary genres. The philosophers include Aristotle (Ch. Horn) but also Cynics (S. Husson), Stoics (G. Reydams-Schils) and Cicero (S. McConnell). Other literary genres include comedic works from Aristophanes up to Lucian (G. Sissa; S. Kidd; N.I. Kuin) and history from Herodotus up to Diodorus Siculus (T. Lockwood; C. Atack; I. Sulimani). A last comparative chapter is devoted to utopias in Ancient China (D. Engels).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733129
ISBN:: 9783110733129
ISBN:: 9783110738209
ISBN:: 9783110733419
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Le ›Declamazioni maggiori‹ pseudo-quintilianee nella Roma imperiale

Andrea Lovato, Antonio Stramaglia, Giusto Traina

Volume 394 in this series

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The world portrayed by ancient declamation is often thought to be timeless; but it was in fact deeply rooted in the historical texture of the Roman Empire. The central aim of the volume is to recover this historical dimension, with particular reference to the so-called Major Declamations, a collection wrongly attributed to Quintilian, and now generally thought to be the work of several authors of the second and third centuries AD. Accordingly, many of the twenty studies collected here seek to anchor the Maiores to their period, exploring their chronology and authorship; their relationship to rhetorical education, Greek declamation, and philosophy; their depiction of earlier history; and their reflection of contemporary socio-cultural trends. Other essays concern their connection with legal theory and practice, and the relationship between juridical and declamatory language, real and fictitious court cases. A final set of studies focuses on the period when the collection was assembled (fourth century AD), reconstructing the late-antique forebear of all the extant manuscripts, speculating on the criteria which may have governed the selection of the pieces. The medieval reception of the Maiores is also investigated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732238
ISBN:: 9783110732238
ISBN:: 9783110737103
ISBN:: 9783110732337
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Ioannes Porterius Nivernas, ›Athamantis Furor‹, eine neulateinische Tragödie

Textausgabe, Übersetzung und Interpretation

Alexander Herböck

Volume 393 in this series

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In his 1621 New Latin tragedy Athamantis Furor, the French rhetoric teacher and Catholic pastor Jean Portier (Ioannes Porterius) dramatized the misfortunes of the mythic King Athamas. He was heavily influenced by ancient texts. This volume provides a new edition of his play, translates it into German for the first time, and interprets and provides commentary on it, focusing on classical reception.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723687
ISBN:: 9783110723687
ISBN:: 9783110723625
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Isonomia

Entwicklung und Geschichte

Charlotte Schubert

Volume 392 in this series

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This book examines the origin and development of the concept of isonomia along with theoretical concepts of order that extend across epochs from ancient times to the imperial age.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723663
ISBN:: 9783110723663
ISBN:: 9783110723762
ISBN:: 9783110717969
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Thought
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Wisdom, Love, and Friendship in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Essays in Honor of Daniel Devereux

Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, Evan Robert Keeling

Volume 391 in this series

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This volume consists of fourteen essays in honor of Daniel Devereux on the themes of love, friendship, and wisdom in Plato, Aristotle, and the Epicureans. Philia (friendship) and eros (love) are topics of major philosophical interest in ancient Greek philosophy. They are also topics of growing interest and importance in contemporary philosophy, much of which is inspired by ancient discussions. Philosophy is itself, of course, a special sort of love, viz. the love of wisdom. Loving in the right way is very closely connected to doing philosophy, cultivating wisdom, and living well. The first nine essays run the gamut of Plato's philosophical career. They include discussions of the >Alcibiades<, >Euthydemus<, >Gorgias<, >Phaedo<, >Phaedrus<, and >Symposium<. The next four essays turn to Aristotle and include treatments of the >Nicomachean Ethics< and >Politics< as well as the lesser-known works >Protrepticus< and >Magna Moralia<. The volume ends with friendship in the Epicureans. As a whole, the volume brings out the centrality of love and friendship for the conception of the philosophical life held by the ancients. The book should appeal to anyone interested in these works or in the topics of love, friendship, or wisdom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110702217
ISBN:: 9783110702217
ISBN:: 9783110702378
ISBN:: 9783110701210
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Intertextualität in den Mönchsviten des Athanasios und des Hieronymus

Eremiten zum Dialog bestellt

Shakira-Tasmin Prädicow

Volume 390 in this series

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In three of his Latin lives of monks, Jerome refers back – both implicitly and explicitly – to Athanasius’ Greek biography of the hermit Antonius. In so doing, he develops new motifs, topics, problems and figures, combining a Roman consciousness of style with Christian inspiration. The result is a multifaceted »dialogue« between the hermits, with a rich intertextuality that is the focus of analysis in this monograph.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110700169
ISBN:: 9783110700169
ISBN:: 9783110700237
ISBN:: 9783110699746
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Curtius Rufus in Straßburg

Imitation und Quellenbenutzung in den Supplementen Johannes Freinsheims

Gabriel Siemoneit

Volume 389 in this series

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The is the first monograph to study the literary supplements of Johannes Freinsheims (1608–1660) on the history of Alexander the Great by Q. Curtius Rufus (probably of the 1^st century). It argues that the text served as a literary contribution for coping with political and military crises during the Thirty Years’ War and as a subtle advocacy for the Protestant cause.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110700190
ISBN:: 9783110700190
ISBN:: 9783110700268
ISBN:: 9783110699531
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragments

New Essays on the Fragments of Aristotle’s Lost Works

António Pedro Mesquita, Simon Noriega-Olmos, Christopher John Ignatius Shields

Volume 388 in this series

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The philosophical and philological study of Aristotle fragments and lost works has fallen somewhat into the background since the 1960’s. This is regrettable considering the different and innovative directions the study of Aristotle has taken in the last decades. This collection of new peer-reviewed essays applies the latest developments and trends of analysis, criticism, and methodology to the study of Aristotle’s fragments. The individual essays use the fragments as tools of interpretation, shed new light on different areas of Aristotle philosophy, and lay bridges between Aristotle’s lost and extant works. The first part shows how Aristotle frames parts of his own understanding of Philosophy in his published, 'popular' work. The second part deals with issues of philosophical interpretation in Aristotle’s extant works which can be illuminated by fragments of his lost works. The philosophical issues treated in this section range from Theology to Natural Science, Psychology, Politics, and Poetics. As a whole, the book articulates a new approach to Aristotle’s lost works, by providing a reassessment and new methodological explorations of the fragments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679847
ISBN:: 9783110679847
ISBN:: 9783110679939
ISBN:: 9783110679786
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Jakob Baldes ›Solatium Podagricorum‹ (1661)

Ein satirischer Trost der Gichtkranken. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 387 in this series

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Jakob Balde (1604-1664) ist einer der bedeutendsten neulateinischen Dichter. Während sein lyrisches Werk der früheren und mittleren Periode gut erforscht wurde, ist sein satirisches Werk der späten Periode nahezu vollständig vernachlässigt worden. Die Schrift Solatium Podagricorum (Trost der Gichtkranken) wird hier zum ersten Mal in deutscher Übersetzung und mit einem ausführlichen Kommentar sowie einer Einführung zugänglich gemacht. Das reichausgeprägte Genus der Paradoxenkomien der neulateinischen Dichter geht auf das Lob der Torheit zurück, das Erasmus von Rotterdam 1509 gedichtet hat. Während Willibald Pirckheimer 1525 als erster ein Lob des Podagra schuf, bedeutet Baldes Solatium zugleich den Höhepunkt und das Ende der literarischen Podagra-Elogien. Balde führt den an dieser Krankheit der Reichen Leidenden die glücklichen Umstände, aus denen sie entsteht, und die Vorteile, die sie mit sich bringt, in ebenso scherzhaft-unterhaltender wie zum Nachdenken anregender Weise vor Augen. Die 43 in Prosa verfassten Kapitel des ersten und die 89 Gedichte des zweiten Buches geben einen reichen Einblick in die Kultur und Bildung der gehobenen Schicht des 17. Jahrhunderts. Die Schrift ist für Literaturwissenschaftler, Historiker und Medizinhistoriker von Interesse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110689280
ISBN:: 9783110689280
ISBN:: 9783110689334
ISBN:: 9783110689204
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Platonische Aufsätze

Rafael Ferber

Volume 386 in this series

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The volume contains a selection of essays on Plato from his beginnings to his aftermath in the works of Donald Davidson and Hans Georg Gadamer. Particular attention is paid to the problem of the idea of the good and the question of its transcendence and immanence. The detailed introduction opens up the contents of the volume in a synopsis that is not only accessible to specialists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637601
ISBN:: 9783110637601
ISBN:: 9783110991680
ISBN:: 9783110633344
ISBN:: 9783110633917
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Defining Authorship, Debating Authenticity

Problems of Authority from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance

Roberta Berardi, Martina Filosa, Davide Massimo

Volume 385 in this series

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This volume explores the themes of authorship and authenticity – and connected issues – from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Its reflection is constructed within a threefold framework. A first section includes topics dealing with dubious or uncertain attribution of ancient works, homonymous writers, and problems regarding the reliability of compilation literature. The middle section goes through several issues concerning authorship: the balance between the author’s contribution to their own work and the role of collaborators, pupils, circles, reviewers, scribes, and even older sources, but also the influence of different compositional stages on the concept of ‘author’, and the challenges presented by anonymous texts. Finally, a third crucial section on authenticity and forgeries concludes the book: it contains contributions dealing with spurious works – or sections of works – , mechanisms of interpolation, misattribution, and deliberate forgery. The aim of the book is therefore to exemplify the many nuances of the complex problems of authenticity and authorship of ancient texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684629
ISBN:: 9783110684629
ISBN:: 9783110684667
ISBN:: 9783110684551
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray

Volume 384 in this series

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This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato’s first readers, over the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue’s reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic, as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy, science and religion concerned with the dialogue’s reception history and its main protagonists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683936
ISBN:: 9783110683936
ISBN:: 9783110683974
ISBN:: 9783110683639
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Antiquity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Städte und Stadtstaaten zwischen Mythos, Literatur und Propaganda

Paolo Cecconi, Christian Tornau

Volume 383 in this series

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The goal of this interdisciplinary analysis of the representations of cities and their spaces in Greek and Latin texts from the 7^th century BC to the 5^th century AD is to identify the influence of political and propagandistic factors in developing canonical representations of cities in Greek classical culture. The book also considers their reception and transformation in the changing contexts of the Roman imperial era and late antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110656893
ISBN:: 9783110656893
ISBN:: 9783110657814
ISBN:: 9783110656763
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Adressat und Adressant in antiken Briefen

Rollenkonfigurationen und kommunikative Strategien in griechischer und römischer Epistolographie

Gernot Michael Müller, Sabine Retsch, Johanna Schenk

Volume 382 in this series

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In der Antike diente der Brief nicht nur dem Austausch von Informationen, sondern er erfüllte darüber hinaus eine Vielzahl weiterer kommunikativer Funktionen. Einen repräsentativen Einblick in diese zu geben, ist Anliegen der 18 Beiträge des Bandes, deren zeitliches Spektrum über die ganze griechische und römische Antike reicht. In ihrem Zentrum stehen die grundlegenden Konstituenten eines Briefes, nämlich sein ‚Adressant‘ bzw. Absender und sein ‚Adressat‘. Sie fragen dabei nach dem Verhältnis von Personenkonstellation, Kontext und Kommunikationsstruktur der untersuchten Briefe, aber auch wie sich die verschiedenen in diesen zu greifenden kommunikativen Strategien in der textinternen Modellierung von Adressant und Adressat niederschlagen. Sie berücksichtigen schließlich auch, dass möglicherweise nicht nur der direkt im Formular genannte Briefempfänger Ziel der Korrespondenz ist, sondern ein über diesen hinausgehendes Publikum, das somit als ‚Adressat auf zweiter Ebene‘ fungiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund gilt die Aufmerksamkeit der Beiträge auch der Erweiterung des Funktionsspektrums antiker Briefe im allgemeinen sowie der Gestaltungsoptionen der briefinternen Sprecherinstanzen im Speziellen, zu denen in vorderster Linie die Selbstdarstellung des Adressaten gegenüber einem größeren Publikum gehört.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110676303
ISBN:: 9783110676303
ISBN:: 9783110676334
ISBN:: 9783110676204
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Ancient Music in Antiquity and Beyond

Collected Essays (2009-2019)

Egert Pöhlmann

Volume 381 in this series

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Since the Renaissance, scholars have attempted to reconstruct ancient Greek music mainly on the basis of literary testimonies. Since the late 19th c. evidence from inscriptions and papyri enriched the picture. This book explores the factors that guided such reconstructions, from Aristophanes’ comments on music to the influence of Roman music in late antiquity, thereby offering a crucial contribution to our understanding of ancient music’s legacy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668100
ISBN:: 9783110668100
ISBN:: 9783110664607
ISBN:: 9783110664218
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Philosophie für die Polis

Akten des 5. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2016

Christoph Riedweg

Volume 380 in this series

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Ancient political philosophy is still influential today. This volume collects articles on its pre-Socratic beginnings as well as Plato and Aristotle, its indisputable founders. Other articles consider Hellenistic schools of thought or thinkers from the imperial, late antiquity, and early Islamic periods. The book explores ancient thinking on politics across history, demonstrating its continued contemporary relevance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664836
ISBN:: 9783110664836
ISBN:: 9783110662528
ISBN:: 9783110662634
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ ›Electra‹

Tragic ›Kunstsprache‹ and the ›kharaktēr‹ of Heroes

Nicholas Baechle

Volume 379 in this series

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Euripides’ Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both reflected and sustained traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even in a radical democracy. A complex analogy between social and aesthetic valuation is played out and brought to light. The characterization of Orestes early in the play demonstrates how social appearances made clear the identity of well-born, and how they were still assumed to indicate superior virtue and agency. On the aesthetic side of the analogy, one of the functions of tragic diction, as an essential indication of heroic character and agency, comes into view in a dramatic and thematic sequence that begins with Achilles ode and ends with the planning of the murders. Serious doubts are created as to whether Orestes will realize the assumed potential inherent in his heroic genealogy and, at the same time, as to whether the components of his character as an aesthetic construct are congruent with such qualities and agency. Both sides of this complex analogy are thus problematized, and, at a metapoetic level, its nature and bases are exposed for reflection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610994
ISBN:: 9783110610994
ISBN:: 9783110613100
ISBN:: 9783110611311
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Pindarus Indogermanicus

Untersuchungen zum Erbe dichtersprachlicher Phraseologie bei Pindar

Eduard Meusel

Volume 378 in this series

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This book examines the legacy of Pindar’s phraseology by bringing together the results and methods of classical studies with those of historical linguistics. Besides providing new insights into individual passages in Pindar, this study demonstrates Pindar’s dominant role in the history of Greek literature and identifies new set pieces from Indogermanic poetic language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110666496
ISBN:: 9783110666496
ISBN:: 9783110663679
ISBN:: 9783110663723
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Typen, Gruppen und Individuen bei Livius

Untersuchungen zur Darstellung und Funktion historischer Akteure in >ab urbe condita<

Clemens Schlip

Volume 377 in this series

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In Livy’s work, both typological groups and remarkable individuals are essential drivers of the historical process. This study examines the role of all groups of people as well as the “great individuals” in Livy and assigns them their respective places in his grand narrative of the rise and decline of Rome. In particular, it identifies the ethical standards Livy applies in his assessments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110663044
ISBN:: 9783110663044
ISBN:: 9783110662122
ISBN:: 9783110661668
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

La genesi dei poemi omerici

Carlo M. Lucarini

Volume 376 in this series

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Through a detailed philological analysis, Carlo Lucarini distinguishes the poets who have composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are, in fact, patchworks put together by two Bearbeiter at the end of VII c. BC. By doing so, he sheds new light on the vexata quaestio of the composition of both poems, opening the way for further research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652963
ISBN:: 9783110652963
ISBN:: 9783110650044
ISBN:: 9783110650136
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

On the Track of the Books

Scribes, Libraries and Textual Transmission

Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti

Volume 375 in this series

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This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110632590
ISBN:: 9783110632590
ISBN:: 9783110622881
ISBN:: 9783110630169
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster

Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation

Simone Finkmann, Anja Behrendt, Anke Walter

Volume 374 in this series

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This collection of essays presents the latest results of cutting-edge research on the epic poetry tradition from Homer to the early modern period; narrative and interpretive paradigms in prose and poetry; intertextuality and narratology; exemplarity; didactic poetry and technical writings; the history of science; and the reception of antiquity in texts and the visual arts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612516
ISBN:: 9783110612516
ISBN:: 9783110611496
ISBN:: 9783110610116
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Magic in Apuleius’ ›Apologia‹

Understanding the charges and the forensic strategies in Apuleius’ speech

Leonardo Costantini

Volume 373 in this series

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Despite the growing interest in Apuleius’ Apologia or Pro se de magia, a speech he delivered in AD 158/159 to defend himself against the charge of being a magus, the only comprehensive study on this speech and magic to date is that by Adam Abt (1908). The aim of this volume is to shed new light on the extent to which Apuleius’ speech reveals his own knowledge of magic, and on the implications of the dangerous allegations brought against Apuleius. By analysing the Apologia sequentially, the author does not only reassess Abt’s analysis but proposes a new reconstruction of the prosecution’s case, arguing that it is heavily distorted by Apuleius. Since ancient magic is the main topic of this speech, an extensive discussion of the topic is provided, offering a new semantic taxonomy of magus and its cognates. Finally, this volume also explores Apuleius’ forensic techniques and the Platonic ideology underpinning his speech. It is proposed that a Platonising reasoning – distinguishing between higher and lower concepts – lies at the core of Apuleius’ rhetorical strategy, and that Apuleius aims to charm the judge, the audience and, ultimately, his readers with the irresistible power of his arguments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617528
ISBN:: 9783110617528
ISBN:: 9783110616675
ISBN:: 9783110616590
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Die "unartikulierbaren Begriffe" des Neuplatonikers Damaskios

Transzendenz und All-Einheit in den >Aporien und Lösungen bezüglich der ersten Prinzipien<

Gheorge Paşcalău

Volume 372 in this series

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Damascius (c. 462 – after 538) was the last of the heads of the Platonic Academy, and the last systematic thinker of pagan antiquity. His philosophy seeks to understand the first principle beyond reality. The failure of all such attempts at understanding proves that the fundamental ideas of metaphysics are nothing less than “inarticulable ideas” (arrhetoi ennoiai), which attempt to express the unsayable without being able to do so.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110582208
ISBN:: 9783110582208
ISBN:: 9783110580198
ISBN:: 9783110581713
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Untersuchungen zu antiken griechischen Rätseln

Luisa Schneider

Volume 371 in this series

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Riddles played a prominent role in Ancient Greek life in applications such as literature, general education, and cult activities. Examining this diverse genre in all its aspects, this study analyses how and why riddles are told. It also carefully considers the identity and characteristics of riddle tellers as well as their subjects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674743
ISBN:: 9783110674743
ISBN:: 9783110674774
ISBN:: 9783110663297
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Euphrosyne

Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature

Peter Burian, Jenny Strauss Clay, Gregson Davis

Volume 370 in this series

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This book collects essays and other contributions by colleagues, students, and friends of the late Diskin Clay, reflecting the unusually broad range of his interests. Clay’s work in ancient philosophy, and particularly in Epicurus and Epicureanism and in Plato, is reflected chapters on Epicurean concerns by André Laks, David Sedley and Martin Ferguson Smith, as well as Jed Atkins on Lucretius and Leo Strauss; Michael Erler contributes a chapter on Plato. James Lesher discusses Xenophanes and Sophocles, and Aryeh Kosman contributes a jeu d’esprit on the obscure Pythagorean Ameinias. Greek cultural history finds multidisciplinary treatment in Rebecca Sinos’s study of Archilochus’ Heros and the Parian Relief, Frank Romer’s mythographic essay on Aphrodite’s origins and archaic mythopoieia more generally, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou’s explication of Callimachus’s kenning of Mt. Athos as "ox-piercing spit of your mother Arsinoe." More purely literary interests are pursued in chapters on ancient Greek (Joseph Russo on Homer, Dirk Obbink on Sappho), Latin (Jenny Strauss Clay and Gregson Davis on Horace), and post-classical poetry (Helen Hadzichronoglou on Cavafy, John Miller on Robert Pinsky and Ovid). Peter Burian contributes an essay on the possibility and impossibility of translating Aeschylus. In addition to these essays, two original poems (Rosanna Warren and Jeffrey Carson) and two pairs of translations (from Horace by Davis and from Foscolo by Burian) recognize Clay’s own activity as poet and translator. The volume begins with an Introduction discussing Clay’s life and work, and concludes with a bibliography of Clay’s publications.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110605938
ISBN:: 9783110605938
ISBN:: 9783110604597
ISBN:: 9783110597653
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Figures in the Shadows

The Speech of Two Augustan-Age Declaimers, Arellius Fuscus and Papirius Fabianus

Bart Huelsenbeck

Volume 369 in this series

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The collection of the elder Seneca assembles quotations from scores of declaimers over a period spanning sixty years, from the Augustan Age through the early decades of the empire. A view is offered onto a literary scene, for this critical period of Roman letters, that is numerously populated, highly interactive, and less dominated by just a few canonical authors. Despite this potential, modern readings have often lumped declaimers together en masse and organizational principles basic to Seneca’s collection remain overlooked. This volume attempts to ‘hear’ the individual speech of declaimers by focusing on two speakers—Arellius Fuscus, rhetor to Ovid, and Papirius Fabianus, teacher of the younger Seneca. A key organizing principle, informing both the collection and the practice of declamation, was the ‘shared locus’—a short passage, defined by verbal and argumentative ingredients, that gained currency among declaimers. Study of the operation of the shared locus carries several advantages: (1) we appreciate distinctions between declaimers; (2) we recognize shared passages as a medium of communication; and (3) the shared locus emerges as a community resource, explaining deep-seated connections between declamation and literary works.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306347
ISBN:: 9783110306347
ISBN:: 9783110388152
ISBN:: 9783110306187
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Speeches for the Dead

Essays on Plato’s Menexenus

Harold Parker, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch

Volume 368 in this series

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The Menexenus, in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato’s notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the contributions of scholars working on diverse aspects of the dialogue, growing out of a one-day workshop on the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania organized by the editors. In offering a variety of perspectives on the Menexenus, the volume is the very first of its kind in any language. In addition, the volume contains an up-to-date bibliography of scholarship in English, French, German, and Italian. This makes the book a definitive guide and ideal starting point for advanced students and scholars looking for further information about the dialogue.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110575897
ISBN:: 9783110575897
ISBN:: 9783110573978
ISBN:: 9783110570731
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Ödipus auf der griechischen und römischen Bühne

Der Oedipus Tragicus und seine literarische Tradition

Elena Iakovou

Volume 367 in this series

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This volume undertakes a comprehensive study of ancient dramatic renditions of the Oedipus theme, from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (the fragments of which are addressed in particular detail) through those of Seneca. In a sharper and more systematic way than ever before, it aims to highlight not only the generic connections between the many versions of the Oedipus story, but also their claims to originality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110574456
ISBN:: 9783110574456
ISBN:: 9783110573527
ISBN:: 9783110568905
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Jakob Baldes ›Expeditio Polemico-Poetica‹ (1664)

Eine satirische Verteidigung der lateinischen und neulateinischen Literatur. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 366 in this series

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Jakob Balde SJ (1604-1668), einer der bedeutendsten deutschen neulateinischen Dichter, veröffentlichte 1664 das Spätwerk Expeditio polemico-poetica, das eine brillante Verteidigung lateinischsprachiger Literatur darstellt. Die Balde-Renaissance ist an dem Meisterwerk gänzlich vorübergegangen, was an dem teilweise extrem schwierigen Charakter liegen mag. Die 1729 zuletzt gedruckte Schrift wird zum erstenmal mit ausführlicher Einführung, kritischem Text, genauer Übersetzung und fortlaufendem Kommentar vorgelegt.

Der erste Teil gibt den Titel für das Werk ab: der Feldzug der lateinischen und neulateinischen Dichter gegen die Festung der Ignoranz, die das Haupt der Kritiker der neulateinischen Literatur ist – eine witzige, zuweilen groteske Erzählung. Den zweiten Teil bilden 489 meist pointiert formulierte Themen, die Balde nicht nur für eigene Bearbeitung, sondern auch als Anregung für junge Adepten vorgelegt hat. Sie gelten zu Unrecht als sprödes Sammelsurium. Nimmt man sie ernst, zeigt sich ein schillerndes Kaleidoskop welthaltiger, tiefblickender, schlagender, ironischer und satirischer Gedanken, sozusagen ‚Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit‘, die man als Bausteine einer Deutung der wirren Zeit nach dem Dreißgjährigen Krieg ansehen kann.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110531770
ISBN:: 9783110531770
ISBN:: 9783110658507
ISBN:: 9783110531329
ISBN:: 9783110528756
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Horace and Seneca

Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations

Martin Stöckinger, Kathrin Winter, Andreas T. Zanker

Volume 365 in this series

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This volume sets out to explore the complex relationship between Horace and Seneca. It is the first book that examines the interface between these different and yet highly comparable authors with consideration of their œuvres in their entirety. The fourteen chapters collected here explore a wide range of topics clustered around the following four themes: the combination of literature and philosophy; the ways in which Seneca’s choral odes rework Horatian material and move beyond it; the treatment of ethical, poetic, and aesthetic questions by the two authors; and the problem of literary influence and reception as well as ancient and modern reflections on these problems. While the intertextual contacts between Horace and Seneca themselves lie at the core of this project, it also considers the earlier texts that serve as sources for both authors, intermediary steps in Roman literature, and later texts where connections between the two philosopher-poets are drawn. Although not as obviously palpable as the linkage between authors who share a common generic tradition, this uneven but pervasive relationship can be regarded as one of the most prolific literary interactions between the early Augustan and the Neronian periods. A bidirectional list of correspondences between Horace and Seneca concludes the volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110528893
ISBN:: 9783110528893
ISBN:: 9783110685251
ISBN:: 9783110528619
ISBN:: 9783110524024
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Platonismus und spätägyptische Religion

Plutarch und die Ägyptenrezeption in der römischen Kaiserzeit

Michael Erler, Martin Andreas Stadler

Volume 364 in this series

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This volume examines the reception of Egypt during the Late Roman Empire from the perspectives of classical philology, ancient studies, and Egyptology. It focuses on Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, as viewed in a broad contemporary, literary, and religious-historical context. It includes consideration of other authors who wrote about Egyptian religion, such as Iamblichus, Porphyrios, and Aelius Aristides.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110532968
ISBN:: 9783110532968
ISBN:: 9783110658477
ISBN:: 9783110531800
ISBN:: 9783110531404
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Plant of a Strange Vine

>Oratio Corrupta< and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy

Robert John Sklenár

Volume 363 in this series

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This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists – hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor – are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies: in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only the individual, but also his society and the entire universe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519747
ISBN:: 9783110519747
ISBN:: 9783110518948
ISBN:: 9783110517729
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Si verba tenerem

Studi sulla poesia latina in frammenti

Bruna Pieri, Daniele Pellacani

Volume 362 in this series

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We cannot fully understand the development of Roman poetry if we ignore the works that survive only in fragments, or that are known only through quotations or allusions. During the last two decades, studies on this topic have been fostered by the collections of Courtney, Hollis and Blänsdorf, but there is still room for further improvement in editing and discussing the fragments of the Latin non-dramatic poets. This volume gathers together ten essays, most of which were discussed in a Seminar held in Bologna in 2014; they can be seen as case studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments, such as textual criticism and interpretation, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, and the connection between quotation and context. These papers do not deal only with texts already known, but suggest some new additions to the corpus of the Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum. In a methodological introduction, the editor also provides an up-to-date review of the scholarship on the subject, that aims to supplement Blänsdorf’s bibliography. For all these reasons, this volume will be of primary relevance to students and scholars in Classical philology.

Il volume raccoglie dieci studi che affrontano i principali problemi della ricerca sui frammenti poetici latini: ecdotica e interpretazione, aggiunte al corpus, autorialità, metrica, genere letterario e rapporto con il contesto citazionale. Il saggio introduttivo, di carattere metodologico, fornisce anche una rassegna aggiornata degli studi sull’argomento che intende integrare la bibliografia di Blänsdorf.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516951
ISBN:: 9783110516951
ISBN:: 9783110516562
ISBN:: 9783110515152
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Le >Declamazioni Minori< dello Pseudo-Quintiliano

Discorsi immaginari tra letteratura e diritto

Alfredo Casamento, Danielle van Mal-Maeder, Lucia Pasetti

Volume 361 in this series

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In recent years interest has grown for the study of ancient declamation (both Greek and Latin), and not only amongst classical scholars, but also in legal, literary and anthropological studies. It is now widely believed, in fact, that these texts, traditionally outside the traditional canon, can provide an interesting perspective to reinterpret the literature of the Imperial Age and to get a deeper understanding of the Roman legal mind and of ancient imagery in general. This collection of essays seeks to address the Declamationes Minores from different points of view. Not only does it analyse the specific features of the text as a schoolbook, but it also tries to highlight the contiguity of fictitious speeches with the literary tradition and the legal and philosophical culture of the time. The volume is a useful tool to explore little-known texts, which nevertheless constitute an effective access point to the imagery of the Imperial Age.

Dedicato alle Declamationes Minores attribuite a Quintiliano, il volume fa emergere i diversi motivi di interesse di questo antico libro di scuola: un manuale che introduce il lettore nel lavoro quotidiano di un maestro di retorica, ma anche uno strumento utile per esplorare l’immaginario antico e la stretta relazione che unisce retorica, letteratura e riflessione giuridica.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110498417
ISBN:: 9783110498417
ISBN:: 9783110496444
ISBN:: 9783110497076
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Der Vegetarismus in der Antike im Streitgespräch

Porphyrios’ Auseinandersetzung mit der Schrift >Gegen die Vegetarier<

Pedro Ribeiro Martins

Volume 360 in this series

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This book presents a study of two discussions contained in Porphyry’s De Abstinentia. Both of them deal with an often forgotten aspect of antiquity: vegetarianism. The author discusses the connections between the fragments Against the Vegetarians and On Piety and shows how Porphyry, in an open debate with the Stoics, develops a spatial terminology to present his own ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110502909
ISBN:: 9783110502909
ISBN:: 9783110499049
ISBN:: 9783110501339
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography

Imitation, Classicism, and Literary Criticism

Ivan Matijašić

Volume 359 in this series

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The main focus of this book is the ancient formation and development of the canons of Greek historiography. It takes a fresh look on the modern debate on canonical literature and deals with Greek historiographical traditions in the works of ancient rhetors and literary critics. Writings on historiography by Cicero, Quintilian, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are chiefly taken into account to explore the canons of Greek historians in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Ages. Essential in canon-formation was the concept of classicism which took shape in the Age of Augustus, but whose earlier developments can be traced back to Isocrates, a model rhetor according to Dionysius at the end of the 1st century BC. The analysis explores also late-antique authors of school treatises and progymnasmata, a field where historiography had a pedagogical function. Previous studies on canonical literature have rarely considered historiography. This book examines not only the works of ancient historians and their legacy, but also the relationship between historiography, literary criticism, and the rhetorical tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476279
ISBN:: 9783110476279
ISBN:: 9783110475128
ISBN:: 9783110475432
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Philosophie in Rom - Römische Philosophie?

Kultur-, literatur- und philosophiegeschichtliche Perspektiven

Gernot Michael Müller, Fosca Mariani Zini

Volume 358 in this series

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The volume’s topic is a comparative analysis of the main authors and social groups who were engaged with the reception of hellenistic philosophy at Rome. It studies in which way their specific approach to philosophy can be explained by their Roman cultural and intellectual background. Thus the volume designs philosophical and cultural criteria to be common to the philosophical activities of Romans and make them discernible as specifically Roman.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110493108
ISBN:: 9783110493108
ISBN:: 9783110685206
ISBN:: 9783110488722
ISBN:: 9783110491425
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Giovenale tra storia, poesia e ideologia

Antonio Stramaglia, Stefano Grazzini, Giuseppe Dimatteo

Volume 357 in this series

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Juvenal’s satire continues to fascinate his readers and to challenge scholars by the constant interplay of a strong poetical identity, a keen historical perception, and an irresoluble ideological tension. The essays collected in this volume pursue these three strands from different but complementary perspectives, aiming at a firmer assessment of the character, the oeuvre, and the background of Rome’s last great satirical poet.

La satira di Giovenale pone sfide continue agli studiosi e non cessa di affascinare i suoi lettori, per l’interazione fra una veemente identità poetica, una dolorosa coscienza storica e un’inesausta tensione ideologica. I saggi qui raccolti affrontano questi tre nuclei tematici da prospettive diverse ma complementari, per delineare più compiutamente la figura, l’opera e l’orizzonte di riferimento dell’ultimo grande poeta satirico di Roma.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486193
ISBN:: 9783110486193
ISBN:: 9783110484977
ISBN:: 9783110482553
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Selbstbewegung und Lebendigkeit

Die Seele in Platons Spätwerk

Michele Abbate, Julia Pfefferkorn, Antonino Spinelli

Volume 356 in this series

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"What is the definition of that which is named ‘soul?’ Can we give it any other definition than that stated just now: ‘the motion able to move itself?’" (Laws 895e). The essays in this volume touch upon the central theme in Plato’s late dialogues of the soul as the principle of self-motion and vitality. They discuss in particular the soul’s relation to the intelligible world and understanding, as well as its cosmic and socio-political dimensions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110467109
ISBN:: 9783110467109
ISBN:: 9783110466652
ISBN:: 9783110464634
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics

Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen

Roland Oetjen

Volume 355 in this series

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Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110283846
ISBN:: 9783110283846
ISBN:: 9783110388558
ISBN:: 9783110283785
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Philostrats Apollonios und seine Welt

Griechische und nichtgriechische Kunst und Religion in der >Vita Apollonii<

Balbina Bäbler, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

Volume 354 in this series

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In Philostratus’ biography of Apollonius, one finds a series of sections in which this globally traveled philosopher converses with Greeks and non-Greeks about phenomena of art and religion. This volume presents these sections in a new bilingual edition and interprets them in essays that reveal their unique and very appealing mix of literary fact and fiction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479362
ISBN:: 9783110479362
ISBN:: 9783110478402
ISBN:: 9783110477641
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Buchstaben als paradeigma in Platons Spätdialogen

Dialektik und Modell im "Theaitetos", "Sophistes", "Politikos" und "Philebos"

Arnold Alois Oberhammer

Volume 353 in this series

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In several late dialogues, Plato uses the paradeigma of the letters to illustrate the methods of dialectics. This study examines why letters in particular represent suitable models, and explores important themes of Plato’s late ontology and epistemology from this viewpoint. The author thereby reveals the nature of the paradeigma and its central role as a method.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110465587
ISBN:: 9783110465587
ISBN:: 9783110464726
ISBN:: 9783110462166
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Marsilio Ficinos Selbstdarstellung

Untersuchungen zu seinem Epistolarium

Ursula Tröger

Volume 352 in this series

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Among the items in his legacy, the Florentine philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) left an extensive collection of Latin letters, which illustrate his studies and how he viewed himself as a teacher and counselor of princes. This book provides an introduction to this letter collection, analyzing selected letters with reference to the roles adopted by the author and his literary strategies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110460698
ISBN:: 9783110460698
ISBN:: 9783110456424
ISBN:: 9783110460421
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Humanism
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Diagoras of Melos

A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism

Marek Winiarczyk

Volume 350 in this series

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Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, 5th c. B.C.) has received special attention for some time now because he was regarded as a radical atheist and the author of a prose work on atheism in antiquity. He was notorious for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and was condemned for impiety at Athens. The present book evaluates Diagoras’ biography and shows that he cannot be considered to have been an atheist in the modern sense.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110448047
ISBN:: 9783110448047
ISBN:: 9783110443776
ISBN:: 9783110447651
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Ethical Education in Plutarch

Moralising Agents and Contexts

Sophia Xenophontos

Volume 349 in this series

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In addition to being the author of the Parallel Lives of noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch of Chaeronea (AD c.46-c.120) is widely known for his rich ethical theory, which has ensured him a reputation as one of the most profound moralists in antiquity and beyond. Previous studies have considered Plutarch's moralism in the light of specific works or group of works, so that an exploration of his overall concept of ethical education remains a desideratum.

Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising agents that Plutarch considers important for ethical development at the heart of its interpretation. These agents operate in different educational settings, and perform distinct moralising roles, dictated by the special features of the type of moral education they are expected to enact. Ethical education in Plutarch becomes a distinctive manifestation of paideia vis-à-vis the intellectual trends of the Imperial period, especially in contexts of cultural identity and power. By reappraising Plutarch's ethical authority and the significance of his didactic spirit, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of Plutarch, but to anyone interested in the history of moral education and the development of Greek ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110350463
ISBN:: 9783110350463
ISBN:: 9783110383317
ISBN:: 9783110350364
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Reading Roman Declamation - Calpurnius Flaccus

Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho

Volume 348 in this series

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As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of Calpurnius Flaccus this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. Contributions from an international group of leading scholars from the field of Roman Literature and Rhetoric will explore the question of how Roman Declamation functions as a literary genre. This volume investigates the literary technique and the generic conventions of declamatio in its social, pedagocial and ethical context to determine “the poetics” of Roman Declamation.

This volume is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

If you are interested in Roman Declamation, we also recommend the volume on the Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian by the same editors to you.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401554
ISBN:: 9783110401554
ISBN:: 9783110685138
ISBN:: 9783110401639
ISBN:: 9783110401240
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris<

Boris Kayachev

Volume 346 in this series

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The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship.

The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message.

Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110447767
ISBN:: 9783110447767
ISBN:: 9783110447125
ISBN:: 9783110446814
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Studien zur hellenistischen Biographie und Historiographie

Stefan Schorn

Volume 345 in this series

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Drawing on surviving fragments, the papers collected in this volume reconstruct both the ways in which Hellenistic biographers worked and the characteristics of their works. They investigate the texts’ value as sources for cultural history and address the relation between biography and other genres. In so doing they show that biography was a form of historiography and even constituted an integral part of the era’s historiographical discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449006
ISBN:: 9783110449006
ISBN:: 9783110685183
ISBN:: 9783110448504
ISBN:: 9783110447552
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome

Methodological Aspects with Examples

Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening

Volume 344 in this series

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Ancient cultures have left written evidence of a variety of scientific texts. But how can/should they be translated? Is it possible to use modern concepts (and terminology) in their translation and which consequences result from this practice? Scholars of various disciplines discuss the practice of translating ancient scientific texts and present examples of these texts and their translations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110448818
ISBN:: 9783110448818
ISBN:: 9783110448177
ISBN:: 9783110447040
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Egyptology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Hesiods >Erga<

Aspekte ihrer geistigen Physiognomie

Korbinian Golla

Volume 351 in this series

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In the Erga [Works and Days] Hesiod unfolds an image of a man whose existence is not determined solely by ineluctable fate. Led by his mind (nous), the individual instead assumes responsibility for his own behavior. This study examines both this perspective – novel in the context of early Greek literature – and shows that nous is of critical importance for the proper understanding of the Erga.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110457360
ISBN:: 9783110457360
ISBN:: 9783110457032
ISBN:: 9783110453058
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Ignaz Weitenauers neulateinische Tragödie "Annibal moriens"

Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Interpretation

Stefanie Paul

Volume 343 in this series

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In 1758, the German Jesuit Ignaz Weitenauer published a neo-Latin tragedy “Annibal moriens” [The Death of Hannibal] on the death of the Carthaginian general. In both style and content, the work largely followed the mode of ancient literature. The new edition is presented alongside a German prose translation and includes commentary and interpretation focused on the play’s reception of the ancient world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110432275
ISBN:: 9783110440072
ISBN:: 9783110432275
ISBN:: 9783110432428
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Reading Roman Declamation

The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho

Volume 342 in this series

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As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of (Ps)Quintilian, this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. It is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352511
ISBN:: 9783110352405
ISBN:: 9783110352511
ISBN:: 9783110387773
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Plato’s Styles and Characters

Between Literature and Philosophy

Gabriele Cornelli

Volume 341 in this series

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The significance of Plato’s literary style to the content of his ideas is perhaps one of the central problems in the study of Plato and Ancient Philosophy as a whole. As Samuel Scolnicov points out in this collection, many other philosophers have employed literary techniques to express their ideas, just as many literary authors have exemplified philosophical ideas in their narratives, but for no other philosopher does the mode of expression play such a vital role in their thought as it does for Plato. And yet, even after two thousand years there is still no consensus about why Plato expresses his ideas in this distinctive style.

Selected from the first Latin American Area meeting of the International Plato Society (www.platosociety.org) in Brazil in 2012, the following collection of essays presents some of the most recent scholarship from around the world on the wide range of issues related to Plato’s dialogue form. The essays can be divided into three categories. The first addresses general questions concerning Plato’s literary style. The second concerns the relation of his style to other genres and traditions in Ancient Greece. And the third examines Plato’s characters and his purpose in using them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110445602
ISBN:: 9783110444032
ISBN:: 9783110445602
ISBN:: 9783110578171
ISBN:: 9783110436549
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Plinius und seine Klassiker

Studien zur literarischen Zitation in den Pliniusbriefen

Katrin Schwerdtner

Volume 340 in this series

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This volume offers a systematic study of the use of literary quotations in Pliny’s letters. By looking at exemplary quotations from Homer and Virgil, the author shows how Pliny uses quotations as a literary device to appeal to the intellectual background of his contemporary readership.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110417401
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041472-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041740-1
ISBN:: 9783110417487
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

The Shadow of Creusa

Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature

Anders Cullhed, Michael Knight

Volume 339 in this series

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Anders Cullhed’s study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine’s critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310948
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031086-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031094-8
ISBN:: 9783110559248
ISBN:: 9783110388367
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

The Frontiers of Ancient Science

Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden

Brooke Holmes, Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

Volume 338 in this series

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Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336337
ISBN:: 9783110333923
ISBN:: 9783110336337
ISBN:: 9783110559224
ISBN:: 9783110389302
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Die Basilius-Übersetzung des Georg von Trapezunt

Edition

Christina Abenstein

Volume 337 in this series

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The doctrinal writings of St. Basil of Caesarea were of key importance at the 1438–9 Ecumenical Council of Ferrara-Florence. A short time later, Bessarion commissioned rhetoric professor George of Trebizond to translate the texts as a gift to Pope Eugenius IV. In addition to the three books Contra Eunomium and the book De spiritu sancto, the work includes the pseudo-Basilian books IV and V Contra Eunomium and the short piece De spiritu.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110433395
ISBN:: 9783110440973
ISBN:: 9783110433395
ISBN:: 9783110432992
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Die Basilius-Übersetzung des Georg von Trapezunt in ihrem historischen Kontext

Christina Abenstein

Volume 336 in this series

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George of Trebizond (1396–1472/3) is among the most colorful figures of early Italian humanism. His translation of the dogmatic works of St. Basil the Great, commissioned by Cardinal Bessarion, should be seen not only in the context of the Unity Council of Ferrara-Florence but also in terms of its singular role in the Plato-Aristotle controversy and in George’s major falling-out with Bessarion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110379181
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037891-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037918-1
ISBN:: 9783110413045
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Ovids verkehrte Exilwelt

Spiegel des Erzählers – Spiegel des Mythos – Spiegel Roms

Simone Seibert

Volume 335 in this series

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This book reveals the literary ways in which Ovid dealt with his exile. It develops the self-portrait of a masterful poet whose individualism seems to presage modernity, and shows how Ovid makes creative use of mythic figures in order to locate his own cultural identity. He creates a tableau of an upside-down world of exile, in which he does not reject Roman values, but lays claim to them on his own terms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110379204
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037889-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037920-4
ISBN:: 9783110387414
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Skythen in der lateinischen Literatur

Eine Quellensammlung

Andreas Gerstacker, Anne Kuhnert, Fritz Oldemeier, Nadine Quenouille

Volume 334 in this series

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This sourcebook compiles the first complete collection and translation of Latin texts through the Constantinian period about the Scythians and other nomadic peoples in the Scythian cultural group, such as the Massagetians, Essedonians, Daheans, and Sakas. It provides extensive insight into the ways that the Romans viewed nomadic culture and the nomadic way of life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110296761
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029671-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029676-1
ISBN:: 9783110389074
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

'Königtum' in der politischen Kultur des spätrepublikanischen Rom

Christian Sigmund

Volume 333 in this series

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The widespread notion that Romans hated monarchy (odium regni) ever since the beginning of the Republic runs counter to the many positive connotations they attributed to reges and regnum. This study takes this contradiction as its point of departure and shows how Romans could condemn the idea of royal rule while at the same time maintaining a positive regard for regnum.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110369274
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037438-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036927-4
ISBN:: 9783110392784
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Carmina anacreontea 1-34

Ein Kommentar

Alexia Zotou

Volume 332 in this series

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This study includes new translations and interpretations of the first 34 poems in the Anacreontic corpus. The aim of the study is to outline a representative image of this variation of the poetry of the Imperial period by taking into consideration how older as well as more contemporary literary genres influenced their construction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110369021
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036498-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036902-1
ISBN:: 9783110392753
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Wortverdreher, Sonderlinge, Gottlose

Kritik an Philosophie und Rhetorik im klassischen Athen

Jan Dreßler

Volume 331 in this series

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Philosophy and rhetoric became integral elements of Athenian culture. This development was accompanied by a critical discourse that questioned their educational use and warned of its dire consequences for peaceful coexistence in the polis. This study provides the first detailed examination of this critical discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345889
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034551-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034588-9
ISBN:: 9783110383898
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Zenon von Elea

Studien zu den 'Argumenten gegen die Vielheit' und zum sogenannten 'Argument des Orts'

Gerhard Köhler

Volume 330 in this series

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Nearly all the surviving works of Zeno of Elea are mere paraphrases and discussions of his thoughts on the part of later authors. Nevertheless, analysis of all relevant sources does lead to plausible hypotheses about the proper meaning of the “Paradoxes of plurality” (Frag. B1–3) and the “Paradox of place” (Frag. B5). It lends a new perspective to Zeno’s importance for the intellectual history of the 5^th and 4^th centuries BC.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110363081
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036292-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036308-1
ISBN:: 9783110385694
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca

Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den "Epistulae morales"

Uwe Dietsche

Volume 329 in this series

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How seriously are we to take Seneca’s philosophizing in the Epistulae morales? Much of their content seems inconsistent and designed for mere effect. This study reveals how Seneca’s choice of words and intellectual acuity are subordinated to the pedagogical aim of gradual persuasion. It becomes apparent that Seneca’s formulation is tactical and that his statements must be interpreted in terms of their specific psychological intent.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349108
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034904-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034910-8
ISBN:: 9783110368307
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Schweigen in Versen

Text, Übersetzung und Studien zu den Schweigegedichten Gregors von Nazianz (II,1,34A/B)

Thomas Kuhn

Volume 328 in this series

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The little–researched poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus reflects a remarkable interweaving of Judeo–Christian thought and the Greek–Pagan poetic tradition. This book includes a bilingual edition and analysis of the imagery in the double–poem “On Silence During Lent” (Carm. II,1,34A/B), a work that offers an especially vivid illustration of the often innovative interposition of different traditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345865
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034550-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034586-5
ISBN:: 9783110369724
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Early Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Homers Ilias

Studien zu Dichter, Werk und Rezeption (Kleine Schriften II)

Joachim Latacz, Thierry Greub, Krystyna Greub-Fracz, Arbogast Schmitt

Volume 327 in this series

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Homer’s Iliad has influenced European literature and art to this day. In the last 30 years, researchers have made significant progress in illuminating this epic. In this study, a leading Homer scholar engages in dialogue with the international research community to reflect on today’s most significant questions, among them the Iliad’s origins, language and style, structure, historical context, and after-effects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306361
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030619-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030636-1
ISBN:: 9783110369748
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Die zweite Philippica als Flugschrift in der späten Republik

Frank-Thomas Ott

Volume 326 in this series

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In the Roman republic, pamphlets were pieces of fictional propaganda that had a considerable impact. This study argues that Cicero composed the Second Philippic as a political pamphlet and followed specific genre criteria . The Second Philippic was probably distributed as a pamphlet and may well have cost Cicero his life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310986
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031088-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031098-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Petrus Mussonius, "Pompeius Magnus" - eine neulateinische Tragödie

Text, Übersetzung und Interpretation

Bernhard Paul

Volume 325 in this series

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This volume presents a new edition and annotated translation of Pompeius Magnus, a Neo-Latin tragedy on the death of the Roman general, which was published in 1621 by the French Jesuit Petrus Mussonius. The content and language of the play were strongly influenced by Classical literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313628
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031357-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031362-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Studien zur Originalität der römischen Tragödie

Kleine Schriften

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 324 in this series

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The collected papers in this volume, many of them previously unpublished, demonstrate the politcial character of Roman tragedy and show that, during the Imperial period, panegyrics often shifted to opposition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110342277
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034214-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034227-7
ISBN:: 9783110554960
ISBN:: 9783110382594
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Studien zur Originalität der römischen Komödie

Kleine Schriften

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 323 in this series

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One of the principal dilemmas for scholars of Roman comedy is demonstrating its originality compared to its (sometimes lost) Greek forebears. In 30 papers written between 1973 and 2013, ten of them previously unpublished, the author uses close analysis of the works of Plautus and Terence to reveal each dramatist’s unique style of dramaturgy and at times utopian worldview and expands our understanding of so-called “Greek” new comedy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306408
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030621-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030640-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Wort und Gedanke

Zur Kritik sprachlicher Vermittlung bei Platon und Plotin

Andreas Zierl

Volume 322 in this series

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Plato’s criticism of writing has engendered much controversy – and it is where interpretations of Platonic philosophy often part ways. This study uses textual and philosophical analysis to shed light on the debate. By comparing Plato’s views to Plotinus’s thoughts about the conditions and forms of philosophical discussion, the author gives the debate historical and systematic context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110303285
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030317-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030328-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Gesammelte Aufsätze zu Platon

Hans Krämer, Dagmar Mirbach

Volume 321 in this series

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This collection of essays presents the history of the “Tübingen School of Plato”, including all the central works by its principal exponents. It includes detailed descriptions of the succession of theoretical principles that characterized Platonism from pre-Socratic philosophy to Neo-Platonism. The elucidation of interconnections within the broad realm of contemporary Plato research make this volume a perfect introduction to Plato.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110280494
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026718-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028049-4
ISBN:: 9783110381504
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Argument und literarische Form in antiker Philosophie

Akten des 3. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2010

Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler, Benedikt Blumenfelder

Volume 320 in this series

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In antiquity, philosophical argumentation was often embedded in a literary form of presentation whose composition followed certain genre-determined rules. At the Third Congress of the Society for Ancient Philosophy, philologists and philosophers gave presentations about this point of intersection between philosophical argument and literary forms. This volume seeks to provide insight into the discussion as well as stimulate further thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338942
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033889-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033894-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Freundschaft im Neuplatonismus

Politisches Denken und Sozialphilosophie von Plotin bis Kaiser Julian

Michael Schramm

Volume 319 in this series

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This is the first full-scale publication dedicated to the study of friendship in Neo-Platonism. Based on his interpratation of the works of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Themistius, and Emperor Julian the author argues that friendship is the core concept within Neo-Platonic political philosophy. This study makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on neo-platonic ethics and political philosophy as well as the theory of governance (Herrschaftstheorie) in Late Antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294965
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029482-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029496-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Dall'Elicona a Roma

Acque ispiratrici e lima poetica nell'Ovidio dell'esilio e nella poesia flavia di omaggio

Elena Merli

Volume 318 in this series

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The motifs of fons inspirationis and labor limae lost their semantic force in Latin poetry after the Augustan age. This book analyzes these two topoi from Ovid to Martial and shows how poetic inspiration and lima poetica are subtly displayed for the purpose of self-fashioning and communication by poets with their patrons.

È luogo comune che, esaurendosi la stagione poetica augustea, i motivi di sorso ispiratore e labor limae perdano pregnanza semantica. Questo libro analizza le occorrenze di entrambi i topoi nella poesia latina di omaggio da Ovidio a Marziale, e mostra che sorgenti delle Muse e lima poetica entrano in delicate strategie di self-fashioning e di comunicazione con i patroni poeti.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110337570
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033683-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033757-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Plato Revived

Essays on Ancient Platonism in Honour of Dominic J. O’Meara

Filip Karfík, Euree Song

Volume 317 in this series

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The essays compiled in this volume individually address the varied forms in which the revival of Platonism manifested itself in ancient philosophy. It pays special attention to the issues of unity and beauty, the mind and knowledge, the soul and the body, virtue and happiness, and additionally considers the political and religious dimensions of Platonic thought. Starting from Plato and Aristotle, the studies examine the multiple transformational forms of Platonism, including the Neo-Platonists – Plotinus, Porphyrios, Iamblichus, Themistius, Proclus, and Marinus – along with Christian thinkers such as St. Augustine, Boethius, and Dionysus the Areopagite. The authors who have contributed to this volume make multiple references to the scholarly work of Dominic J. O’Meara. Their further refinement of O’Meara’s approach particularly casts a new light on Late-Platonic ethics. The essays in this collection also contribute to scholarly research about the multiple inter-relationships among the Platonists themselves and between Platonists and philosophers from other schools. Taken as a whole, this book reveals the full breadth of potential in the revival and transformation of ancient Platonism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324662
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032440-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032466-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Tecniche teatrali e formazione dell’oratore in Quintiliano

Francesca Romana Nocchi

Volume 316 in this series

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The volume focuses on the evidence of scenic art present in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria to verify its influence on the education of the speaker. The enquiry will also make reference to all Greek and Latin sources useful in highlighting the mutual dependence between oratory and theater from the fifth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The most important area of investigation concerns the teaching of comoedus, master of diction and gestures. The fields of specialization and methods configured by Quintilian recall in detail the training process followed by Demosthenes to achieve excellence in the actio under the guidance of different actors; this close similarity suggests a persistence of training relationships between theater and oratory. The choice of comoedus is based on well-defined selection criteria: in particular, the comedy seems to have replaced the tragedy as the teaching model in the imperial era because of its greater verisimilitude. The enquiry extends to the acting techniques used in the imperial era, with particular attention to the mask and the strategies of identification that the actor could suggest to the speaker to activate the process of sympatheia with the public.

Il volume si incentra sulle testimonianze relative all’arte scenica presenti nell’Institutio oratoria di Quintiliano, per verificarne l’influenza sulla formazione dell’oratore. L’indagine si estende a tutte le altre fonti greche e latine utili ad evidenziare la dipendenza fra oratoria e teatro, a partire dal V secolo a. C. fino al II d. C. Il più originale settore d’indagine riguarda la docenza del comoedus, la cui tecnica costituisce un’importante risorsa anche per l’oratoria.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324785
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032446-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032478-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Der Dialog in der Antike

Formen und Funktionen einer literarischen Gattung zwischen Philosophie, Wissensvermittlung und dramatischer Inszenierung

Sabine Föllinger, Gernot Michael Müller

Volume 315 in this series

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This study examines ancient dialogue as a genre, and its 17 essays explore the relationship between its form, content, and function, with a focus on the literary aspects of dialogue. The contributions address the development of the genre over time as well as the formal aspects of dialogue.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311945
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031183-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031194-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

"Spuria Macri"

Ein Anhang zu "Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum". Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Ulrike Jansen

Volume 314 in this series

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“Spuria Macri” consists of 20 chapters and 487 hexameters about plant, animal, and mineral remedies added to the poem “Macer Floridus.” This translation, the first ever into German, contains rich commentaries on language, sources, reception, authorship, intellectual history, and genre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110308594
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030849-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030859-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Literatur der Antike und Philologie der Neuzeit

Ausgewählte Schriften

Ernst Vogt, Erich Lamberz

Volume 313 in this series

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This collection of papers contains some 60 articles selected from the works of the philologist Ernst Vogt. They deal with a variety of very different aspects of the study of ancient languages, for example the history of literary forms and genres, Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods, the history of transmission and reception, or the history of classical philology. All of the texts have been checked and additions or amendments made.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263916
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026390-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026391-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene

Marek Winiarczyk

Volume 312 in this series

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In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods (Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world.

Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus’ religious views were rooted in old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might have been preserved.

The translation of Ennius’ Euhemerus sive Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294880
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027888-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029488-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Zeitenwende

Aufsätze zur Spätantike

Alexander Demandt

Volume 311 in this series

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The dissolution of the Roman Empire and the end of ancient civilization constitute European history’s most profound crisis. Over the centuries, this crisis has often inspired explanatory attempts and comparisons with more recent times. The essays presented in this volume, written by Alexander Demandt between 1977 and 2011, serve to amplify his comprehensive treatment undertaken in Der Fall Roms. Die Auflösung des römischen Reichs im Urteil der Nachwelt and Die Spätantike. Römische Geschichte von Diocletian bis Justinian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294675
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029461-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029467-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Germanic History
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Amazonen zwischen Griechen und Skythen

Gegenbilder in Mythos und Geschichte

Charlotte Schubert, Alexander Weiß

Volume 310 in this series

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Until now, the image of the Amazons that prevailed in classical antiquity has been predominantly interpreted within the framework of gender discourse. However, Amazons have been paradigmatic in all literary and pictorial genres and through all epochs of antiquity as representatives of various contrast in myth and history, including the familiar and alien, self and other, as well as settled and nomadic. As such, they are a part of very generalized alternative worlds in which constructions of the self and images of the other are co-mingled.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110286168
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028609-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028616-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Platons Kritik an Geld und Reichtum

Anna Schriefl

Volume 309 in this series

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This study examines the radical critique of wealth and moneymaking that permeates Plato’s works from the early dialogues to the Republic and the Laws. The author shows that Plato’s position on wealth should not be ascribed to aristocratic prejudices, but instead brought into relation with one of his core philosophical beliefs: the establishment of an original conception of aretê (virtue) that conflicts with money making.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311006
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031089-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031100-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

P. Ovidii Nasonis "Epistula ex Ponto" III 1

Testo, traduzione e commento

Beatrice Larosa

Volume 308 in this series

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The Epistula ex Ponto III 1, composed by Ovid to his wife in the 2nd period of his relegatio, is the summary of the leitmotives of his exile poetry and lacks a recent accurate analysis. This linguistic-philological commentary, the most updated and comprehensive available since the 1965 Staffhorst’s one, reveals dense intertextual connections with the author’s other writings, with the previous Latin love poetry and the ways of the Ciceronian and Horatian decorum, by underlining an articulated literary dialogue that, in the recovery of the original mournful connotation of ancient elegy, employs also typically tragic contents and styles. The request to the wife to intercede with Livia is modelled according to the structural and conceptual modules of the suasoria around the main theme of conjugal fides and includes the consideration of historic and sociological themes (such as the wife’s figure and her play in the imperial society, the relationships of the intellectual person with power towards the end of the Augustan principality and the increasing importance of the role of the empress during the last years of the princeps’ life).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110298666
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029849-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029866-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2014

Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance

Volume 307 in this series

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The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227369
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020059-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022736-9
ISBN:: 9783110384871
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Oath and State in Ancient Greece

Alan H. Sommerstein, Andrew James Bayliss

Volume 306 in this series

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The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores how oaths functioned in the working of the Greek city-state (polis) and in relations between different states as well as between Greeks and non-Greeks.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110285383
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028438-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028538-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

The Muse at Play

Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry

Jan Kwapisz, David Petrain, Mikolaj Szymanski

Volume 305 in this series

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In May 2011, a conference on riddles and word games in Greek and Latin poetry took place at the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw. The conference was intended as an open forum where specialists working in different fields of classical studies could meet to discuss the varied manifestations of riddles and other technopaegnia - both terms being understood broadly to encompass the full range of play with language in classical antiquity, in keeping with the use made of the two terms in ancient and early modern theoretical discussions. This volume offers revised versions of the papers presented during the conference. Contributions by scholars from Europe and the USA treat a number of interconnected topics, including: ancient and modern attempts to formulate a definition of the riddle; poetic games at Greek symposia; experimentation with language in late classical poetry; riddles in the book cultures of the Hellenistic age and late antiquity; the functions of word games carved in stone, written on papyrus, or inscribed on the wall as graffiti; authors famed for their obscurity, such as Heraclitus and Lycophron; wordplay in Neo-Latin poetry; oracles, magic squares, pattern poetry, palindromes and acrostichs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270617
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027000-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027061-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Papyrology
Subject:: Epigraphy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Sexualmoral und politische Stabilität

Zum Vorstellungszusammenhang in der römischen Literatur von Lucilius bis Ovid

Maike Steenblock

Volume 304 in this series

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In the literature of the late Roman Republic, political change was accompanied by a loosening of tradition concepts of sexual morality and gender. Investigating texts from Lucilius to Ovid, the author shows that the subjects of masculinity and effeminatio are closely tied to political discourse in every literary genre of the time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306460
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030625-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030646-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Aristotle's Psychology of Signification

A Commentary on "De Interpretatione" 16a 3-18

Simon Noriega-Olmos

Volume 303 in this series

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This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and its psychological background in his writing De Anima, a project often envisioned by scholars but never systematically undertaken.

I begin by explaining what sort of phonetic material, according to Aristotle, can be a significans and a phônê. To that end, I provide a physiological account of which animal sounds count as phônê, as well as a psychological evaluation of the cognitive content of the phônai under consideration in De Interpretatione: names, verbs, and assertive sentences.

I then turn to noêmata, which, for Aristotle, are the psychological reference and significata of names, verbs and assertive sentences. I explain what, for Aristotle, are the logical properties a significatum must have in order to be signified by the phonetic material of a name, verb or assertive sentence, and why noêmata can fulfil those logical conditions.

Finally, I elucidate the significans-significatum relation without making use of the modern semantic triangle. This approach is consonant with Aristotle’s methodology and breaks new ground by exploring the connection between the linguistic and psychological aspects of Aristotle’s theory of signification.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289879
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028765-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028987-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Omero e i suoi oratori

Tecniche di persuasione nell´"Iliade"

Stefano Dentice di Accadia Ammone

Volume 302 in this series

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The birth of rhetoric is traced back to the 5th century B.C.E., when the first theoretical treatises on rhetoric were drafted. As early as in the speeches of the Iliad however, one can recognize a deliberate and thoughtful use of refined rhetorical techniques, although these techniques were only codified at a much later date. The Homeric orators thus appear to have been influenced by unwritten but nevertheless valid rules of rhetoric. Based on detailed analysis of the most important speeches in the epic and related reflections by the poet, the author reveals Homer as a pioneer of rhetoric.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110287684
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028764-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028768-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Roman Lyric

Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace

Francis Cairns

Volume 301 in this series

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Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with some new papers.

Many aspects of the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace are treated in this collection. Particular emphasis is given to the political and religious interests of both poets, to their interactions with their contemporaries, to the ‛learning’ which informs their poetry, and to their generic practices. Philological problems of text and interpretation are treated pari passu, as are relevant aesthetic questions. The volume is fully indexed and contains a composite bibliography and addenda and corrigenda.
Papers on Catullus and Horace will make access to this body of important scholarly material easier and more convenient for scholars and students of Latin poetry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110267228
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026627-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026722-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Gli Inni di Sinesio di Cirene

Vicende testuali di un corpus tardoantico

Idalgo Baldi

Volume 299 in this series

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Since Terzaghi’s edition (1939) no new relevant data were found illustrating the textual history of the Synesian poetic corpus from Late Antiquity to the Palaeologan Byzantium. Thanks to a new inspection of the main manuscripts and the enucleation of thematic and structural incoherencies, hitherto unnoticed, it seems possible to restore the structure of the hymnodic corpus as it was before its original pattern was damaged and modified by late Byzantine editors. Specific researches are devoted to: (1) the displacement of the ninth hymn (originally intended to open the hymns series); (2) the beginning of a new hymn with the last verses of the ninth; (3) the merging of two hymns into what is now the first hymn and a new assessment of the last part of the same piece (according to the Neoplatonic theory of the soul); (4) the real purpose and nature of the hymns 6-8 (uncorrectly considered “tout court” as christological), and the original structure of the eighth hymn (to be divided in two different poems). Moreover, the study of ancient and late antique metrical and musical theories reveals hitherto unexpected features about both production and performance of Synesius’ hymns.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279733
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027448-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027973-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Keraunia

Beiträge zu Mythos, Kult und Heiligtum in der Antike

Oliver Pilz, Mirko Vonderstein

Volume 298 in this series

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This collection of essays provides an overview of recent archaeological research into cults in Antiquity. It features unpublished or previously neglected material, presents current research findings, and opens up a new perspective that raises further questions. The authors of the individual essays are not only young researchers but also renowned scholars specializing in this complex set of issues. The book covers almost the entire spectrum of research into cults in Antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270761
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027007-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027076-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Contestazione e conservazione

Luciano nell'esegesi di Areta

Giuseppe Russo

Volume 297 in this series

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Lucian of Samosata met a two-sided fate: on the one hand he was attacked for philosophical and theological reasons; on the other he was admired for the command of the Greek language and the stylistic elegance he displays in his writings. The origins of this twofold attitude towards Lucian seem to date back to the exegesis devoted to him by Arethas, archbishop of Caesarea, which is integrally examined for the first time in this publication. The book consists of eleven chapters: 1 (manuscript tradition of Arethas’ scholia on Lucian); 2 (Arethas’ polemic against Lucian); 3 (scholia with quotations from biblical and patristic texts); 4 (scholia with quotations from classical texts); 5 (relationships between Arethas’ scholia and Photius’ Bibliotheca); 6 (scholia concerning matters of language or style); 7 (scholia dealing with various learning); 8 (scholia containing autoschediasms); 9 (scholia comparing words or facts found in Lucian’s writings with words or facts belonging to the scholiast’s times); 10 (bibliography); 11 (index of Arethas’ scholia on Lucian).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270693
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027059-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027069-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Orpheus in der Spätantike

Studien und Kommentar zu den Argonautika des Orpheus: Ein literarisches, religiöses und philosophisches Zeugnis

Oliver Schelske

Volume 296 in this series

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In this work, the short epos Orpheus’ Argonautica that dates from Late Antiquity is subjected to a comprehensive re-examination. It reveals a work in which the poetic structure is much more complex than previously assumed and shows how Orpheus’ figure was handled in Late Antiquity thus presenting the recipient with a number of links to philosophic-religious and above all neoplatonic variants.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259728
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025971-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025972-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Bühnenmord und Botenbericht

Zur Darstellung des Schrecklichen in der griechischen Tragödie

Dorothea Zeppezauer

Volume 295 in this series

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Murder and manslaughter, eye gouging, suicide, human sacrifice - Greek tragedy is full of horrible acts which disturb and fascinate, but are never directly presented on stage. But how are they presented? Which means and forms did poets use to present the invisible in such a way on stage that it would not lose its harrowing effect? The book analyzes this question by interpreting scenes of horror in the works of the three great Greek tragic poets.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110257052
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025704-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025705-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Philippus Cancellarius

Die Motettengedichte

Barbara Schetter

Volume 294 in this series

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In this book the motet lyrics of Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1165-1236) are subjected to critical editing, translation and comment. While the lyrics treated in the first part can certainly or in all probability be credited to Philip, the second part is devoted to poems in which the assignation is disputed.

The commentary is followed by an interpretation that analyses the interplay of music and lyrics combined with arguments regarding the authenticity of the respective lyrics. In doing so, both the religious Latin lyrics with which we are no longer familiar, as well as the motet as a musical-lyrical work of art become tangible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259872
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025986-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025987-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Die hellenistischen Utopien

Marek Winiarczyk

Volume 293 in this series

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Despite their marginal existence in research, Utopian novels written in the Hellenistic period were very popular in Antiquity and inspired a number of authors in the modern period (Th. Morus, T. Campanella). This book tries to close this gap in specialist literature: the author takes a close look at various utopian writings, however, the book is not only limited to analysis of the writings, it also discusses their philosophical, historical, ethnographical and geographical context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263893
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026381-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026389-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Leon Battista Alberti, "Della tranquillità dell'animo"

Eine Interpretation auf dem Hintergrund der antiken Quellen

Matthias Schöndube

Volume 292 in this series

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Leon Battista Alberti wrote his dialogue Della tranquillità dell’animo as a guideline to a life in inner peace. The dialogue is divided into diagnosis, therapy and practical advice and explores the central terms of Stoic philosophy in classical antiquity. Alberti’s main orientations were derived from the moral philosophical writings of Seneca, and he provides his dialogue with a large number of quotes and reminiscences from classical antiquity to substantiate his thoughts.

Alberti presents himself as a confident “uomo universale”, who strives to compete with and outmatch the authorities of classical antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260632
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026062-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026063-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Liebe und Lyrik

Zur Funktion des erotischen Diskurses in Horazens erster Odensammlung

Mathias Eicks

Volume 291 in this series

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Through the analysis of individual love poems and groups of poems as well as through the representation of thematic and compositional connections of the love theme with other cardinal themes, this work opens up a new perspective on Horace s’ first collection of odes.

Love becomes identifiable as the center of poetry, its poetic functionalization leads to a reassessment of the relationship between Horace and Augustus. Manifold evidence of relationships between individual poems allows new insight into the homogeneous structure of the collection as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238952
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023894-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023895-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Luciano di Samosata, "Timone o il misantropo"

Introduzione, traduzione e commento

Gianluigi Tomassi

Volume 290 in this series

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Within Lucian’s works, Timon is referable to the writer’s maturity and it is considered to be one of the best and most typical dialogues written by the author from Samosata. This study traces the story of the fascinating and enigmatical character of the Athenian Timon, a archetype of a misanthrop, in his literary development up to his crucial meeting with Lucian of Samosata. The work offers, for the first time, an analytical commentary on Lucian’s Timon. The reader will find in the book an introduction, which is divided in four different sections: the first contains some general notes on the Second Sophistic and Lucian; the second restores the literary development of the misanthrope Timon from his origins in the Attic comedy to the II century a.D.; the third part offers an analysis of the relationship between Lucian’s Timon and the literary tradition, and, afterwards, an investigation into the dialogue’s fortune from the II century to the XX century; the last section gives short but exhaustive details about the literary style and the language used in the work. To facilitate the consultation, the analytical commentary is again divided into sections ‑ each one with a short individual introduction ‑ and follows the Greek text and the translation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246995
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024698-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024699-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Officina Hippocratica

Beiträge zu Ehren von Anargyros Anastassiou und Dieter Irmer

Lorenzo Perilli, Christian Brockmann, Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Amneris Roselli

Volume 289 in this series

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It has long been appreciated that ancient medicine, and above all Hippocrates and Galen, played a significant role in the development of medicine until the Age of Enlightenment, and the last forty years have for the first time seen detailed research into questions related to this. For an adequate understanding of this instructive and powerful influence in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age, it is necessary to consider the original Greek texts, as well as the surviving Latin and Arabic versions. This volume with fifteen texts by leading scholars provides an opportunity to present the results of an international coordination, and is dedicated to two scholars who have made worthy contributions in the field of research into ancient medicine, A. Anastassiou and D. Irmer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221251
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022124-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022125-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Monument und Inschrift

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur senatorischen Repräsentation in der Kaiserzeit

Werner Eck, Walter Ameling, Johannes Heinrichs

Volume 288 in this series

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One of the most important forms of senatorial representation was a monument embellished with an inscription. Both – inscription and monument – were always intimately related, so that epigraphy and the study of ancient history are challenged to work more closely with archaeology. Only in this way is it possible to establish a correct understanding of how senators represented themselves. Therefore, the articles collected in this volume create, among other things, the basis for a new viewpoint of the social and cultural history of the senatorial order under the Roman Empire.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246957
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024694-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024695-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: Epigraphy
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Wille und Handlung in der Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike

Jörn Müller, Roberto Hofmeister Pich

Volume 287 in this series

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Will is understood as the ability of an agent to reflect on and define aims freely, and to act upon and pursue them methodically and steadfastly. For the first time this volume examines in detail the historical development of the terminology and problems within the various philosophical schools (Stoics, Neo-Platonists, Peripatetics), as well as in Christian patristics, which led to the establishment of a philosophically “adequate” definition of will in Late Antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221329
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022131-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022132-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece

Translating Ancient Scientific Texts

Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening

Volume 286 in this series

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Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers ‑ even the cultures of the “pre-modern” world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? Renowned representatives of various disciplines and traditions present a controversial and constructive discussion of these problems.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229936
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022992-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022993-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Tradition und Erneuerung

Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier

Norbert Kramer, Christiane Reitz

Volume 285 in this series

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Following the confusion that accompanied the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the Flavians succeeded in restoring stability to Rome. This volume of papers deals with the media strategies which were employed to help overcome a difficult initial situation and to master the crisis, thus establishing prosperous conditions in Rome and the Empire. 18 contributions from classical philology, archaeology and ancient history examine the new aesthetical orientation of literature and art in the Flavian period as well as the self-representation of the Flavian dynasty.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247152
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024714-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024715-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Stimmen der Geschichte

Funktionen von Reden in der antiken Historiographie

Dennis Pausch

Volume 284 in this series

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A common narrative device in historical writing in antiquity was the use of speeches delivered by a historical person, which the historian composed and rendered in direct speech. This work presents, for the first time, a comprehensive comparison of how the most important historians in antiquity used this device. The focus on the historians’ speeches is less on their fictionality but on their different functions as literary technique. The essays in this volume explore how the speeches were used to characterize the speaker and other historical persons and to describe historical events from multiple perspectives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224184
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022417-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022418-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Aretai und Virtutes

Untersuchungen zu den Wertvorstellungen der Griechen und Römer

Carl Joachim Classen

Volume 283 in this series

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This volume is dedicated to the ideals and standards of a number of Greek and Roman authors and artists: Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle (to the orator), Philo, Clemens of Alexandria and Origenes, Lucilius, Lucretius, Cicero (with a representation of traditional Roman standards), Seneca, Quintilian, Claudian and the sarcophagi and triumphal arches, as well as a brief outline of the chequered history of the ‘cardinal virtues.’ All Greek and Latin quotes and terms are translated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110245950
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024594-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024595-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Lucan's "Bellum Civile"

Between Epic Tradition and Aesthetic Innovation

Nicola Hömke, Christiane Reitz

Volume 282 in this series

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Lucan’s Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and confronts its readers with a new kind of aesthetic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229486
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022947-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022948-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Petronii Arbitri "Satyricon" 100-115

Edizione critica e commento

Giulio Vannini

Volume 281 in this series

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This critical edition and commentary of the sea voyage episode of Petronius’ Satyricon makes an important contribution towards a reassessment of the Satyricon as a whole, providing a useful tool for anyone who wishes to pursue further research on this novel - one of the most influential texts in Western literature.

The introduction includes three chapters: a general overview of the principal aspects, where important issues such as the literary genre, the number of books, or the role of Priapus are reconsidered; a study of the famous tale of the widow of Ephesus and its connections with other versions of the same story, namely those by Phaedrus and ‘Romulus’; and a new outline of the intricacies of the textual tradition, with new findings and perspectives.

The critical edition and a reliable apparatus criticus make use of recent discoveries and contain new textual conjectures alongside new evidence in support of the transmitted text. The commentary pays particular attention to textual problems (which abound in the Satyricon as a consequence of its highly fragmentary transmission), to the study of language and style, and examines a wide range of literary models.

The work is equipped with extensive indices (locorum, nominorum, and rerum).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240924
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024091-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024092-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Fragmente und Spuren nichteuklidischer Geometrie bei Aristoteles

Imre Tóth

Volume 280 in this series

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In the Corpus Aristotelicum there are 18 passages where it can be shown that Aristotle quotes statements that are formally opposite to the fundamental Euclidean theorem of the sum of the angles in a triangle. These statements are the result of the attempt by the geometricians of the Academy to prove the fundamental approach of Euclidean geometry indirectly. However, the attempt did not result in contradiction and Aristotle felt that there was no way of deciding between the alternatives “Euclidean - non-Euclidean”. In his Ethics this is the only example he uses to illustrate the freedom of choice of the active subject.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224160
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022415-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022416-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Soranos von Ephesos, Peri psyches

Sammlung der Testimonien, Kommentar und Einleitung

Pietro Podolak, Jan Erik Heßler

Volume 279 in this series

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Most of the writings of the physician Soranos of Ephesos (c. AD 100-140) are lost. They covered the entire field of contemporary medicine, throwing light on his philosophical thought and broad historical interest. In this volume the testimonies from various sources for his work Peri psyches are collected. They reveal Soranos to have been a prominent proponent of Hellenistic theories of the soul, which were based on materialism in general and the soul's physicality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225839
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022582-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022583-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Flora Neolatina

Die »Hortorum libri IV« von René Rapin S. J. und die »Plantarum libri VI« von Abraham Cowley. Zwei lateinische Dichtungen des 17. Jahrhunderts

Ruth Monreal

Volume 278 in this series

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This work is a study of two Neo-Latin poems of the 17th century: René Rapin's Hortorum libri IV, dealing with contemporary French garden architecture, and Cowley's Plantarum libri VI, in which the plants are personified and botanical information is embedded in various mythological and historical narratives. The author examines both the subject matter and the formal characteristics of the two poems. Her textual analysis focusses in particular on their use of classical models.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217629
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021761-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021762-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Roman Readings

Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian

Elaine Fantham

Volume 277 in this series

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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229349
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022933-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022934-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Kaiser Leo I

Das oströmische Reich in den ersten drei Jahren seiner Regierung (457 - 460 n. Chr.)

Gereon Siebigs

Volume 276 in this series

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This study into the person and the politics of the East Roman Emperor Leo attempts to reconstruct the events of the years AD 457‑460 as exactly as possible. It revolves around the Council of Chalcedon and the religious and political conflict caused by the assassination of the Patriarch of Alexandria. The book also examines the tense relationship with the Western Empire, the Goths, and the mighty General Aspar, as well as the laws passed by the Emperor. An extensive excursus underpins and expands the chronological narrative in more detail.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225853
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022584-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022585-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Römische Werte und römische Literatur im frühen Prinzipat

Andreas Haltenhoff, Andreas Heil, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

Volume 275 in this series

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This edited volume, which has its origins in a Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) in Dresden, “Institutionality and Historicity”, deals with the relationship between Roman values and the political strategies and changing social roles of the early Principate as reflected in contemporary literary communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213270
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021298-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021327-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

"Kleine Leute" und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos' Hekale

Marios Skempis

Volume 274 in this series

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Callimachus’ Hekale is one of the most famous short epics of Greek literature and was highly regarded as such in antiquity. This study addresses the question of whether and to what extent the Hekale is related to the Homeric epics, and especially the Odyssey. The ensuing conclusions show that the Odyssey exerted a strong influence on the diction, character stylization and overall plot structure of the Hellenistic miniature epic. The reading strategies employed are based on inter- and intratextuality, narratology, poetic etymology, orality vs literacy theory and gender studies documenting the numerous ways in which Callimachus alludes to, borrows from or echoes the Odyssey on structural, linguistic and character level. Within this methodological framework several interpretations are put forward in order to cast light on the “everyday people” of the Hellenistic as well as the Homeric epic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224146
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022413-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022414-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Cassius Dio und die Römische Republik

Untersuchungen zum Bild des römischen Gemeinwesens in den Büchern 3–35 der "Romaika"

Benedikt Simons

Volume 273 in this series

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For many years Cassius Dio’s Romaika (c. AD 160 - c. AD 230) has served as a quarry for the reconstruction of lost sources and the historical narrative. The view of the Roman Republic held by this member of the imperial elite, however, has hardly been considered. This work combines two separate strands of research, in that it examines the criteria according to which he employed his sources: he adhered to an ideal of a harmonious society which was particularly influenced by the Stoic Poseidonios (c. 135 ‑ c. 51 BC), according to which everybody served for the good of all.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225877
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022586-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022587-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Geschichtsbilder für Pagane und Christen

"Res Romanae" in den spätantiken Breviarien

Markus Sehlmeyer

Volume 272 in this series

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Breviaries, brief accounts of Roman history, are the main element of the historiographical output of the second half of the 4th century AD. The knowledge they contain reflects the various needs for information of people who were at the crossroads of classical education and Christianity. The “ancient Romans” were still important for Christian identity. This study on the culture of history provides a detailed evaluation of breviaries and their reception from the points of view of social and intellectual history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220094
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022008-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022009-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die relative Datierung der Tragödien Senecas

Joachim Dingel

Volume 271 in this series

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Only a few of Seneca’s tragedies have been dated exactly so far. This study presents an ― often surprising ― sequence of all the plays. It analyses thoughts and motifs, variations of which are to be found in two (or more) tragedies, in order to determine which is the earlier and which the later version. This has significant consequences for any attempt to find references to contemporary events in the plays.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225754
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022574-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022575-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Weichteil- und Viszeralchirurgie bei Hippokrates

Ein Rekonstruktionsversuch der verlorenen Schrift [Peri tromaton kai belon] ("De vulneribus et telis")

Mathias Witt

Volume 270 in this series

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Contrary to a widely held belief, Hippocratic surgery did not just cover orthopaedics, it also included therapy for serious injuries to soft tissue. This was generally forgotten, since Hippocrates’ central text on the matter was lost in the Early Middle Ages. The work presented here attempts to reconstruct the lost text from quotes and references in ancient authors, and so provides an insight into a forgotten chapter of the earliest medical literature in the West.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217681
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021767-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021768-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Vom Römertum zum Ästhetizismus

Studien zu den Briefen des jüngeren Plinius

Eckard Lefèvre

Volume 269 in this series

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The renowned Roman politician, Pliny the Younger (c. AD 61-112), was a versatile and productive author, from whom 9 books of letters, an exchange of letters with Trajan and an extensive panegyric for the same emperor are extant. The individual letters of books 1-9 are artistically composed and for the most part deal with general matters, for example the decline of individual freedom and the situation of literature during the Principate. The humane attitude of the author towards women and slaves is new, as is his active aesthetic interest in architecture and landscape.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217261
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020874-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021726-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Bürger, Gott und Götterschützling

Kinderbilder der hellenistischen Kunst und Literatur

Sabine Schlegelmilch

Volume 268 in this series

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Portrayals of children became increasingly common in Greek literature and art during the Hellenistic period. It has long been thought that the reasons for this lie in the alienation of the Greeks as a result of the collapse of the polis and its structures, which was then compensated for by a concentration on private subjects. A review of recent research by classical scholars, archaeologists, Egyptologists and ancient historians reveals that this view must be revised. It is not sentimental love of children that speaks in the Greek paintings and texts: rather, they are a result of the clear dynastic interests of Hellenistic ruling houses. An exception is the figure of the small Eros, which must be regarded separately.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217667
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021765-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021766-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Nachlese

Kleine Schriften 2

Carl Werner Müller

Volume 267 in this series

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The Nachlese, a collection of papers on Greek literature and thinking, as well as the history of classical studies, follows on from the author’s Kleinen Schriften, published in 1999 (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 132 ). This time the spectrum of topics is wider. The history of science is more prominent, and the final contribution consists of a textual interpretation that is only relevant methodically.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216844
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020128-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021684-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Griechische Studien

Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg

Volume 266 in this series

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In a broad sweep, the Greek Studies treat important moments in Greek history from its beginnings up to the 4th century BC. Working in collaboration with the Old Testament scholar Klaus Seybold from Basle, particular attention is paid first to the comparison with parallel developments in Israel/ Judaea in order to bring out what was characteristic of Greece history. A second focus is placed on the 4th century, with studies assessing Athenian democracy and evaluating the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse as a precursor of the Hellenistic monarchy. The final three papers on the history of scholarship are devoted principally to Jacob Burckhardt and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217292
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020916-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021729-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Antike als Inszenierung

Drittes Bruno Snell-Symposion der Universität Hamburg am Europa-Kolleg

Gerhard Lohse, Martin Schierbaum

Volume 265 in this series

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The third Bruno Snell-Symposium presents interdisciplinary contributions that place Antiquity in a modern framework. The central theme is performance. This involves presenting the Ancient World in a number of different historical and cultural contexts and presentational media beyond the environment of the stage. The starting point for the ten papers is Greek theatre. They cover a broad spread of classical philology, archaeology, English and Romance languages, and literature studies up to the present day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212273
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021226-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021227-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Laertiana

Capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle "Vite dei filosofi" di Diogene Laerzio

Tiziano Dorandi

Volume 264 in this series

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This book presents an introduction to a new edition of Diogenes Laertios’ Greek text (Cambridge University Press) by Tiziano Dorandi. It consists of three parts. The first contains the list of manuscripts, in the second, the author examines the main elements in the transmission, and in the third, he demonstrates the history of the text in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213980
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020914-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021398-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Das hellenistische Königspaar in der medialen Repräsentation

Ptolemaios II. und Arsinoe II.

Sabine Müller

Volume 263 in this series

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The Hellenistic monarchies arose from the collapse of Alexander’s empire, and represented new forms of rule. This study demonstrates how the Hellenistic ruler presented himself and his family in picture, text and on official occasions. In particular the representation of the Hellenistic royal couple and the role of the queen at court are examined on the basis of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Central aspects of the study are the political background to the marriage between Ptolemy II, during his reign that marriage between royal siblings and the deification of the ruling royal couple were introduces, and his sister Arsinoë II, and how the royal couple presented themselves to Greeks, Macedonians, and Egyptians.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217254
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020917-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021725-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Gegenwärtige Vergangenheit

Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften

Egert Pöhlmann, Georg Heldmann

Volume 262 in this series

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Egert Pöhlmann held the Chair of Classical Studies at the University of Erlangen until 2001. His minor writings collected here cover the period from 1968 to 2008. As well as papers on Greek and Latin Studies and music in Antiquity, there is work seeking links between topics in Classical Studies and neighbouring disciplines such as Antique philosophy, archaeology, art history, modern German literature and music. The volume closes with a bibliography of Egert Pöhlmann's writings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210507
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020442-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021050-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Platonicus amor

Lesarten der Liebe bei Platon, Plotin und Ficino

Achim Wurm

Volume 261 in this series

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This analysis of the historical understanding of Marsilio Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Symposium sets it in relationship to the philosophical interpretation of Eros in Plato and Plotinus, while at the same time providing a multi-faceted description of the place of Ficino’s philosophy in the intellectual and spiritual development of the Italian Renaissance. The particular role of Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Symposium, De amore, within the context of the discourse of love as discussed in vernacular languages in 15th-century Florence is considered, and well as opening up Ficino to further interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210712
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020425-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021071-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Vorbilder - Werte - Normen in den homerischen Epen

Carl Joachim Classen

Volume 260 in this series

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The subject of this volume are the role models, values and norms to be found in Homer’s epics, and their manifold representation in terms of content and language. First of all the representations of a number of exceptional heroes and their most important characteristics and actions are analysed, before the description of the whole range and richness of important qualities and abilities such as enterprise, courage, insight, inventiveness, sense of justice, prudence, respect, truthfulness, reliability, friendliness, concern for others and sympathy are documented and discussed at length. Finally, the use of such concepts as ‘necessary’, ‘right’, ‘appropriate’, ‘desirable’ and ‘useful’ is considered, as well as the meaning of recognition and fame. The aim of the book is to reveal in detail the ideals, as well as the moral attitudes and values, that have led to Homer’s epics having such an effect not only on the literature of the Greeks, but also on their views on educational ideals and ethical norms over the centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211566
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020259-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021156-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Seneca als Theologe

Studien zum Verhältnis von Philosophie und Tragödiendichtung

Susanna E. Fischer

Volume 259 in this series

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The relationship between "Seneca philosophus" and "Seneca tragicus" is still fundamental to any interpretation of his tragedies. The author focuses on this problem within the field of theology. She analyses Seneca's understanding of providentia, and thus the question of theodicy, in his philosophical writings and plays, as well as his view of fatum , and thus the freedom of the will. In contrast to previous studies, which were primarily concerned with his dramas and only dealt with the philosophical works in passing, it is the theology of his philosophical writings that is the starting point for Fischer, allowing the problems they deal with to be applied to the interpretation of his dramas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210019
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020260-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021001-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift "Über die alte Heilkunst"

Brice Maucolin

Volume 258 in this series

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This study takes as its subject the polemical text attributed to Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine , which challenges the views of the causes and treatment of illness prevalent at the time of its composition (around 400 BC). The main emphasis of the study is placed on the analysis of the author’s scientific polemic. With this approach, a text which has previously tended to be regarded as a document of the history of ideas can for the first time be acknowledged as a literary work of the first order.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216820
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020125-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021682-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Der »Zweite Alkibiades«

Untersuchungen zu einem pseudoplatonischen Dialog

Hubertus Neuhausen

Volume 257 in this series

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The studies on the pseudo-Platonic Alkibiades II presented here consist primarily of extensive research on the sources. On the one hand works from the 4th century BC were used as sources for Alkibiades II (Plato, Antisthenes), on the other hand it attacks contemporary philosophical rivals: the Stoa of Zenon of Kition and the Peripatos of the time. Thus the pseudo-Platonic dialogue is to be connected with the Academy at the time of Polemon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222586
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020122-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022258-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Vita Homeri Herodotea

Textgeschichte, Edition, Übersetzung

Maria Vasiloudi

Volume 256 in this series

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The Vita Homeri traditionally attributed to Herodotus is the most complete ancient biography of Homer. This volume presents a new critical edition together with a German translation. It is the first time that all extant Greek manuscripts have been fully collated and evaluated. As well as explaining the dependencies of the individual texts, the recensio provides a contribution to the history of the text and its cultural-historical background.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216936
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020123-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021693-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Antike Medizin im Schnittpunkt von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften

Internationale Fachtagung aus Anlass des 100-jährigen Bestehens des Akademievorhabens "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum"

Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Christian Brockmann, Carl Wolfram Brunschön

Volume 255 in this series

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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum an international colloquium was held on the subject “Ancient Medicine at the Interface of Humanities and Sciences”. This volume publishes the contributions of international experts, who draw attention to the importance of ancient medical authors and to the historical roots of modern medicine, in particular with reference to topical questions such as health and therapy research, holistic medicine and medical ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216493
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020121-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021649-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Laokoon in Literatur und Kunst

Schriften des Symposions 'Laokoon in Literatur und Kunst' vom 30.11.2006, Universität Bonn

Dorothee Gall, Anja Wolkenhauer

Volume 254 in this series

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The fate of the Trojan priest Laokoon was related in Antiquity by, among others, Sophocles, Virgil and Quintus Smyrnaeus. The rediscovery of the Laokoon statue group in Rome in 1506 led to numerous new works, including many in the visual arts. The contributions in the proceedings of the symposium presented here analyse key moments in the ancient and modern discourse on the story of Laokoon and the group of statues – as testimony to the magnificence of ancient art, fear or disdain of the gods, suffering, violence and the power of fate.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210378
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020126-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021037-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Per carmina laudes

Untersuchungen zur spätantiken Verspanegyrik von Claudian bis Coripp

Claudia Schindler

Volume 253 in this series

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This monograph provides a review of the history of praise of rulers composed in hexameters (so-called panegyric epic) from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. Panegyric epic is a form of literature that only came to be of particular importance in Late Antiquity, although it drew upon and adapted a variety of Graeco-Roman literary traditions. Following a general description of the literary and historical-cultural preconditions for the development of Late Antique panegyric, this study presents its most important practitioners and their works, as well as detailing the development of the various traditions of Late Antique verse panegyric.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210583
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020127-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021058-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Il "miraggio" di Alceo: Fr. 140 V.

Benedetto Marzullo

Volume 252 in this series

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This book considers one of the most important fragments of early Greek lyric (Alkaios frag. 140 V.) as a means of communication, a revolutionary ode in which the exiled poet addresses the conspirators who have remained behind in their native city. They should take up the arms which were taken from their enemies and dedicated in the temple, and overthrow the tyrant. It is a letter in ode form that serves as a pattern throughout classical culture, and reflects the purpose and meaning not only of Alkaios, but of all other compositions of this category. Alkaios’ text is analysed with regard to its later varied use in all of Graeco-Roman culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210408
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020141-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021040-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Die Legitimation der Einzelherrschaft im Kontext der Generationenthematik

Thomas Baier, Marilena Amerise

Volume 251 in this series

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This volume is the product of an international congress held at the University of Bamberg by the graduate school Generation Consciousness and Generation Conflict in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The contributions look at how it was possible for charismatic sole rule to develop in ancient poleis and within the synodal structures of ecclesiastic communities, in spite of the fact that in principle they were based on the equality of all members.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209914
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020362-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020991-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Gestaltung und Funktion der Reden bei Herodot und Thukydides

Carlo Scardino

Volume 250 in this series

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For the modern reader, the use of direct speech, which is normally fictional, is one of the most remarkable features of ancient historiography. On the basis of a study of the rhetorical form and of the motifs employed in speeches by Herodotus and Thucydides, the author is able to expound systematically for the first time the similarities and differences in the employment of this characteristic tool in the works of the two historians, and to undertake a comparison with the options available to modern historical works.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110900057
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019511-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090005-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Studien zu Sextus Empiricus, Diogenes Laertius und zur pyrrhonischen Skepsis

Karel Janácek, Jan Janda, Filip Karfik

Volume 249 in this series

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Apart from both of his monographs on Sextus and his indices to Sextus and Diogenes Laertius, Karel Janáček (1906-1996) published fifty articles on Sextus and related topics. These are methodically strict lexical and stylistic studies which have shed new light on Sextus’ work. In addition Janáček also took a close look at the works of Diogenes Laertius, Hippolytus of Rome and Philo of Alexandria and how they are connected with Sextus. The results of these studies form the foundation of present scholarship on Sextus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209679
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019505-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020967-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Geschichte und Personen bei Thukydides

Eine Interpretation des achten Buches

Ernst Heitsch

Volume 248 in this series

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Book eight of Thucydides deals with the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) after the disaster of the Sicilian expedition (413 BC), and thus with a phase in which the war seems to dissolve into a maze of individual actions. In spite of this, his description of events exercises a strange fascination on the reader, as long as one is prepared to confront the narrative as a process which many attempt to influence, but which ignores the desires and intentions of the actors while leaving behind not just apparent losers as victims.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110969092
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020129-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096909-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften

Israel, Griechenland, Rom

Leonhard Burckhardt, Klaus Seybold, Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg

Volume 247 in this series

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This comparison of ancient legislative processes looks at several examples. Josiah’s reforms in Jerusalem and Solon's laws in Athens are analyzed; the development of three legal codes are compared: Deuteronomy (5^th Book of Moses), Gortyn in Crete and the Twelve Tables in Rome; and ancient legislation on asylum is considered. The ensuing discussion among scholars is documented, so highlighting the challenges and possibilities of an intercultural comparison of ancient societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923872
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019482-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092387-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Law
Subject:: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Catulls Epigramme im Kontext hellenistischer Dichtung

Cornelius Hartz

Volume 246 in this series

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The Roman poet Catullus is regarded as the founder of private love poetry. As a member of the group of poets known as “Neoterics” he had a particular influence on the literary life of Rome in the first century BC. To date, however, insufficient attention has been paid to his shortest poems, the epigrams, and neither their artistry has been adequately appreciated, nor how much they owe to Hellenistic poetry. This is now demonstrated for all 48 of Catullus’ epigrams using methods of modern literary scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898910
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019466-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089891-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Die griechische Biographie in hellenistischer Zeit

Akten des internationalen Kongresses vom 26.-29. Juli 2006 in Würzburg

Michael Erler, Stefan Schorn

Volume 245 in this series

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The volume presents the papers delivered to an international conference on Hellenistic biography.Besides literary portraits of individual authors, often presented for the first time, the volume includes studies on earlier forms of the genre, mutual influence on and of other contemporary forms of literature, as well as studies on literary techniques and the use of motifs . The papers constitute a significant contribution to research on Hellenistic biography, and demonstrate its importance in the literary environment of the time, as well as for the extant biographies of the Roman Imperial Period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901238
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019504-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090123-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Das Komische bei Plautus

Eine Analyse zur plautinischen Poetik

Gudrun Sander-Pieper

Volume 244 in this series

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This work is a comprehensive contribution on the dramatic comedy of the Roman comic playwright T. Maccius Plautus. From the starting point of a critical review of previous scholarship on Plautus and the most important works on dramatic comedy as a phenomenon in itself, the author develops her own model of the interplay between drama, comedy and tension. This principle, which can be applied to any other form of drama, is illustrated on the basis of cross-sections through passages of Plautus’ comedies and other European dramas, before finally being applied to Plautus’ Menaechmi as a whole. The central theme of the entire work is the particular use the Roman author made of structures of communication between the audience and the characters on stage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897821
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019510-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089782-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Valerii Flacci Argonautica I

Commento

Daniela Galli

Volume 243 in this series

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Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in scholarly interest in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica. Numerous analyses, discussions and commentaries on the poetical art of this “difficult” epic have appeared. This volume provides a philological commentary on the first book of the Argonautica. Special attention is paid to the sources upon which Valerius drew, and a comparison made with earlier literary tradition (in particular with the first book of Vergil’s Aeneid, but also with Seneca’s tragedies). In addition, the language, style and compositional techniques which were peculiar to epic during the Flavian period are studied.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926385
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019481-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092638-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Städtische Eliten im römischen Makedonien

Untersuchungen zur Formierung und Struktur

Jens Bartels

Volume 242 in this series

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Using the Roman province of Macedonia as an example, this work presents a critical analysis of the generally held opinion among social historians that the society of the Roman Empire was based on a class system. An analysis of the sources, mostly inscriptions, reveals that – in contrast to the situation elsewhere in the Empire – here there is no evidence for a class-based elite, and that more attention must be paid to regional variations in the structure of society than has been the case.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209921
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019500-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020992-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Studien zu Petron und seiner Rezeption / Studi su Petronio e sulla sua fortuna

Luigi Castagna, Eckard Lefèvre, Chiara Riboldi

Volume 241 in this series

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In this volume 22 contributions by German and Italian scholars deal with a variety of aspects of Petronius’ Satyricon: historical and cultural context; rhetoric and linguistics; narrative; art; reception. The last of these sections includes a critical edition as well as an interpretation of the philosopher Leibniz’s reports on the performance of the Cena Trimlachionis at the court of Hanover.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898927
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019488-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089892-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Die Briefe des Eustathios von Thessalonike

Einleitung, Regesten, Text, Indizes

Foteini Kolovou

Volume 239 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928181
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77851-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092818-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Ärzte und ihre Interpreten

Medizinische Fachtexte der Antike als Forschungsgegenstand der Klassischen Philologie

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Carl Werner Müller, Christian Brockmann, Carl Wolfram Brunschön, Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Beate Gundert, Dieter Harlfinger, Jouanna Jacques, Jutta Kollesch, Elsa Garcia Novo, Vivian Nutton, Lorenzo Perilli, Beate Sconocchia, Heinrich von Staden, Gotthard Strohmaier, Maria Vasiloudi

Volume 238 in this series

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Mit der Gründung des Corpus der antiken Ärzte an der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde die Erforschung der antiken Medizin zu einem integrierenden Bestandteil der Klassischen Philologie in Deutschland. Das Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, das eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Brückenfunktion zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften erfüllt, war von Anfang an auf internationale Kooperation ausgerichtet und ist bis heute weltweit das wissenschaftlich maßgebende Unternehmen für die Edition antiker medizinischer Texte. In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist, vor allem im europäischen Ausland und in den USA, das Interesse an der antiken Medizin in allen ihren Facetten stark gewachsen. Die am 14. und 15. Mai 2004 von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften veranstaltete und der DFG finanzierte internationale Fachkonferenz verfolgte das Ziel, die Editionsphilologie auf diesem Gebiet zu stimulieren, auf dem sich philologische Arbeit mit medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen verbindet. Ausgewiesene Spezialisten nahmen als Referenten an der Konferenz teil, die dem Arbeitsstellenleiter des CMG, Dr. sc. Diethard Nickel, anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages gewidmet war.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934793
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77850-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093479-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2007

Schweigen im römischen Epos

Zur Dramaturgie der Kommunikation bei Vergil, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus und Statius

Silke Anzinger

Volume 237 in this series

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What can silence mean? And by what means can a narrator express it? This is the first study to look at the question of how quiet, silence, speechlessness and the refusal to communicate are employed in Roman epic. Apart from two comparative chapters each author is analyzed separately. In this way attention is drawn not only to continuity and intertextual play with individual motifs (e.g. in the case of the silence of the night), but also to individual differences in narrative techniques, in particular in the portrayal of the unsaid.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925500
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019478-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092550-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

M. A. Muret, Iulius Caesar. M. Virdung, Brutus

Zwei neulateinische Tragödien. Text, Übersetzung und Interpretation

Andreas Hagmaier

Volume 235 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934786
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77847-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093478-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Kraftmetaphysik und Mysterienkult im Neuplatonismus

Ein Aspekt neuplatonischer Philosophie

Lutz Bergemann

Volume 234 in this series

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This book shows the connection between Neoplatonic Metaphysics and the mystery cult of Late Antiquity. Based on an analysis of the Platonic term "power / force" (dynamis) and its connection with the terminology of light, the metaphysics of power / force are shown to be the more fundamental concept which functions as the foundation of the mteaphysics of light, but it also becomes clear, that the metaphysics of power / force need the explicatory value of light concerning their differentiation and especially their application on religious phenomena. Thus the interrelated / interconnected metaphysics of light and power / force become of great importance to describe how the world with its intelligible and material components achieves form and order. At the same time this metaphysical complex was used by the later Neoplatonists to describe and justify phenomena which were part of the religious practice of theurgy and find literary expression in the so called Chaldean Oracles.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932546
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77846-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093254-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Römisch-germanische Begegnung in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit

Voraussetzungen – Konfrontationen – Wirkungen Gesammelte Studien

Dieter Timpe

Volume 233 in this series

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Essays from four decades on the German policy of the Romans are assembled here to give a general picture of the encounter between the Romans and the Germans from the migration of the Cimbri to the early imperial age. Within the framework of contemporary knowledge and understanding of the Romans, and with regard to the effects in Antiquity and later of the events described, the author examines the Roman expansion into central Europe, its political aims, strategic possibilities and historical consequences. Of central interest are the conflict with the Cimbri, the Roman occupation of the area between Rhine and Elbe, an appraisal of Arminius who fought against Varus, and an assessment of the Roman relationship to Germany at the time when Tiberius abandoned his offensive expeditions and later. Analysis of the historical events is combined with interpretation of the Roman view of the Germans and the influence of this view in modern times. The introduction contrasts the ethnographical model of constant confrontation between Romans and Germans with a different conception of German history which emphasises the comparative unity of the tribal regions of central Europe as an area under the influence of the Roman Empire.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932676
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77845-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093267-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Römische Studien

Geschichtsbewußtsein – Zeitalter der Gracchen – Krise der Republik

Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg

Volume 232 in this series

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Historical Awareness: how did the Romans arrive at their ideas about their own past? What motives and experiences shaped these ideas? Age of the Gracchi: what was the programme of the Gracchi? Why did the attempt to put it into practice cause the 'derailment' of political life in Rome? Crisis of the Republic: what were the basic factors underlying the crisis of the Republic during its hundred years of constant escalation? What was the role of the populares in these events? This volume is a collection of essays (some hitherto unpublished) and reviews written over 35 years, which attempt to find answers to important aspects of these questions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938715
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77844-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093871-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Die Philosophie des Xenokrates im Kontext der Alten Akademie

Detlef Thiel

Volume 231 in this series

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This work throws a new light on Xenocrates, the third leader of the Academy, who is considered in the existing research as merely a derivative doctrinaire. This complete presentation of his philosophy encompasses, in addition to cosmology, theology and ontology, for the first time also his doctrine of principles. This is found in the renowned report of Sextus, Adv. Math., X, §§ 248-283, which can be read anew against the background of the philosophy of Xenocrates. The doctrine of monistic principles proffered in the passage from Sextus derives from Xenocrates, who inserts his own precepts in his report on Platos unwritten teachings. Xenocrates' doctrine of principles constitutes the link between the ontological metaphysics of Aristotle and Plato's metaphysics of unity; Xenocrates' absolute monas is both in its essence connected with the nous, and ontologically transcendent. Xenocrates proves himself to be a thinker who is true to Plato and innovative. He is not only the precursor to middle-Platonism, but was also considered amongst the students of the inner circle of the Academy to be the 'rock' upon which Plato was able to establish his teachings and his school.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110921182
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77843-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092118-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Senecas 82. Brief an Lucilius

Dialektikkritik illustriert am Beispiel der Bekämpfung des metus mortis. Ein Kommentar

Ulf Gregor Hamacher

Volume 230 in this series

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In his 82nd Epistle to Lucilius, Seneca uses his inimitable method of psychagogy to reduce ad absurdum the attempt to banish the fear of death through dialectical reasoning in syllogistic form. This text has never before received an adequate and thorough explanation. Here it is examined in a detailed introduction and a commentary (with a continuous interpretative translation). The introduction locates the Epistle in the dialectical tradition of the Stoics, illustrates Roman attitudes towards dialectic, and on this basis attempts to reveal the sophistication of Seneca's philosophical position. The main section comprises a detailed commentary on matters of textual criticism, language, style and realia.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910759
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77842-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091075-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Christian Gottlob Heyne und die Alte Geschichte

Marianne Heidenreich

Volume 229 in this series

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Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812) was the most famous classical scholar of his generation and in his extensive oeuvre frequently dealt with topics of ancient history. Besides his own historical researches and numerous reviews communicating the results of international scholarship, there are his attempts to make the knowledge of antiquity fruitful for the modern world. Using a wide variety of material, this book aims to present Heyne's treatment of ancient history in relation to his studies in philology, mythology, antiquities and archaeology, and to determine how this treatment relates to the scholarly or political debate of his time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938722
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77841-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093872-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Euripides Danae and Dictys

Introduction, Text and Commentary

Ioanna Karamanou

Volume 228 in this series

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Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and illuminate more familiar works in the corpus, both extant and fragmentary. This is the first full-scale study of the two plays, which sheds light on plot-patterns, key themes and aspects of Euripidean dramatic technique (e.g. his rhetoric, imagery, stagecraft), as well as matters of reception and transmission of both tragedies, by taking into account newly related evidence. The cautious recovery of the two lost plays based on the available evidence and the detailed commentary on their fragments seek to complement our knowledge of Euripidean drama by contributing to an overview and more comprehensive picture of the dramatist's technique, as the extant corpus represents only a small portion of his oeuvre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938739
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77840-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093873-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Römische Werte als Gegenstand der Altertumswissenschaft

Andreas Haltenhoff, Andreas Heil, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Lucia Beltrami, Barbara Borg, Egon Flaig, Johannes Keller, Mario Lentano, Susanne Muth, Stefan Rebenich, Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, Anne Weis

Volume 227 in this series

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Are the Roman values focused upon above all by Latinists in the first half of the 20th century, still relevant to the classical studies of today, or can they, in view of new research approaches and interdisciplinary discourse, still be of interest? This volume, the result of an "Institutionalism and Historicity" special research area seminar at Dresden Technical University, discusses this question in a productive manner. Eleven contributions, written by classical philologists, ancient historians and classical archaeologists, offer a range of critical surveys as well as on-going conceptual ideas and concrete individual studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945690
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77839-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094569-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Social Sciences, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Stoische Doktrin in römischer Belletristik

Das Problem von Entscheidungsfreiheit und Determinismus in Senecas Tragödien und Lucans Pharsalia

Claudia Wiener

Volume 226 in this series

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This study contests the widespread view that Seneca's tragedies and Lucan's epic on the civil war express their authors' disappointment at the failure of Stoic doctrine to provide convincing answers to the problems of evil in human behaviour or the inescapable blows of Fate. The works of both writers, parallel in treatment, aim at the representation in literature of the tensions between human free-will and determinism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918403
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77838-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091840-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2015

Krieg und Bürgerkrieg bei Lucan und in der griechischen Literatur

Studien zur Rezeption der attischen Tragödie und der hellenistischen Dichtung im "Bellum civile"

Annemarie Ambühl

Volume 225 in this series

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In his civil war epic, the Roman poet Lucan draws extensively on his literary forbears. This study fills a gap in the research by going beyond the boundaries of language and genre to examine his reception of Greek literature, especially Attic tragedy and Hellenistic poetry. It reveals the importance of mythical and literary models, such as the Trojan War and the fratricidal war around Thebes, for Lucan’s epic formulation of the civil war theme.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216479
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022207-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021647-9
ISBN:: 9783110390360
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Die griechische Tragödie und ihre Aktualisierung in der Moderne

Zweites Bruno Snell-Symposion der Universität Hamburg am Europa-Kolleg

Gerhard Lohse, Solveig Malatrait

Volume 224 in this series

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Die Beiträge aus Geschichte, Romanistik, Germanistik und Klassischer Philologie verdichten die Fragestellung des 1. Symposions auf das Problem der Aktualisierung der griechischen Tragödie. Deren mythische Substanz zwingt die Autoren der Neuzeit offenbar, in ihren Stücken das Verhältnis von Transzendenz und Immanenz, von Staat und Individuum sowie von Schuld und Erlösung immer wieder neu zu bestimmen. Diese Positionen untersuchen die Beiträge in einem weiten Bogen von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, von der Untersuchung des ästhetisch-formalen Problems anhand zweier Thyestes-Versionen über das der Götter in Goethes Iphigenie zu Fragen des Politischen und Nationalen in Anouilhs Antigone sowie in zwei gleichzeitigen Aufführungen von Sophokles' Antigone im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, ergänzt um eine Nebenlinie: Kleists und Heiner Müllers Arminius-Versionen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915402
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77836-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091540-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Cassiodors Variae. Literatur und Politik im ostgotischen Italien

Christina Kakridi

Volume 223 in this series

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Most modern readers find the Latin literature of the late antiquity obscure, if not outright bewildering. Over the last decades, classicists have made considerable efforts both toward describing the specific literary conventions observed in these works, and also toward formulating a balanced appraisal of their theoretical, literary and aesthetic merits. The book at hand, originally submitted as a dissertation to the University of Göttingen, seeks to contribute to this burgeoning literature, by offering an overall assessment of Cassiodor's Variae, a compilation of official state documents. In light of the most recent developments in the field, the author diligently traces out the application of traditional writing conventions in the construction of these documents (content and assertions of the underlying "genus", aesthetic standards and philosophical resp. Christian background). Only a thorough grasp of these conventions makes it possible, not only to identify and describe the author's objectives, but also to reveal the pathways through which the political and social upheavals of 6th century Italy find their way into the passages of the Variae. Even though the large distance separating modern readers from the late-antiquity can never be entirely bridged, this book demonstrates that Cassiodor's Variae contains elements of a political ideology and a literary aesthetic that transcend the narrow confines of the author's times and render his work both stimulating and relevant to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928822
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77835-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092882-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Apollonios Dyskolos. Über das Pronomen

Einführung, Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen

Philipp Brandenburg

Volume 222 in this series

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Apollonius Dyscolus is the most important Greek grammarian of the 2nd cent. A.D. His book on the pronoun is here for the first time translated into a modern vernacular. In doing so the Greek text was thoroughly revised. An introduction unravels the history of ancient grammatical terminology back to Aristotle and thus accounts for the decisions that had to be made in the translation. Finally, additional notes provide a philological and linguistic commentary for modern readers on the complex line of thought of the ancient grammarian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966725
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77834-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096672-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Epinoemata

Kleine Schriften zur antiken Philosophie und homerischen Dichtung

Matthias Baltes, Marie-Luise Lakmann

Volume 221 in this series

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This volume is the second part of a collection of core works by Matthias Baltes. The main part contains more recent essays on ancient philosophy, in particular on Plato and Platonism, as well as on Epicurus, some of which are published here for the very first time. A smaller section contains earlier works on Homeric poetry. Both collections offer an almost complete overview of the research work carried out by Matthias Baltes, above all of the area that he has focused on intensively during the course of his life: the history of thought phenomena and Platonism. In addition to discussing individual philological questions, he also turns his attention to the wide-ranging philosophical and theological aspects of this world of ideas, important both in ancient and modern times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931433
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77833-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093143-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Die Erzählung des Pseudo-Neilos-ein spätantiker Märtyrerroman

Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Michael Link

Volume 220 in this series

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The work traditionally attributed to the church father Nilus of Ancyra tells of a raid on the monastic settlement on Mount Sinai and the adventures of two monks living there, an old man and his son. The latter is abducted by Bedouins right in front of his father. They want to sacrifice the handsome youth to the morning star. After many hardships, the old father finds him alive and well, and both are ordained priests by the bishop of Eluse.

With this book, a still little-known text of some literary interest is made accessible to a wider public.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931426
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77832-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093142-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Kurt Latte: Opuscula inedita

Zusammen mit Vorträgen und Berichten von einer Tagung zum vierzigsten Todestag von Kurt Latte

Carl Joachim Classen

Volume 219 in this series

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Kurt Latte (1891-1964) was one of the most prominent German classicists of the twentieth century whose numerous publications partly written while Latte was being persecuted and deprived of his basic civic rights by the Nazis will remain influential for many generations to come. The present volume makes available some lectures and papers ("Sternsagen"; "Der Hades der Griechen"; "Römerlegenden und Romgedanke"; "Wandel des Glaubens in der Kaiserzeit"; "Geist und Macht. Gedanken zum 2000. Todestag Ciceros"; "Neronische Dichtung") together with two chapters of a history of Roman Literature ("Ovid"; "Epigonen") all of which he had planned to publish, but had not been able to due to the difficulties of the time.

The volume is introduced by words spoken by two of his pupils, Professor G. Patzig and Professor A. Dihle, at a ceremony held in Göttingen in memory of Latte forty years after in his death, together with a survey of the part of his left papers preserved in Göttingen and a list of his lectures given there from 1945 to 1957.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110929195
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77831-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092919-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Fronto, Marc Aurel und kein Konflikt zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie im 2. Jh. n. Chr.

Christoph Tobias Kasulke

Volume 218 in this series

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Rhetoric and philosophy both constituted the main elements of literary education in the Greco-Roman world of the second century A.D. The present study deals with the relationship between both disciplines in Second Sophistic literature: Did there still exist a conflict between rhetors and philosophers in this time, or had the famous debate that originated from Plato's attack on the sophists ceased already for centuries? The author of this study tries to give an answer to this question: first examining the literary evidence of second century literature in general, then focussing on Fronto and Marcus Aurelius as the two most distinct participants in the debate, he proves that in the second century A. D. rhetoric and philosophy were totally in harmony with each other and that consequently Marc Aurelius never abandoned rhetoric for philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110929188
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77830-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092918-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, De spiritalis historiae gestis, Buch 3

Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Manfred Hoffmann

Volume 217 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931488
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77829-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093148-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World

Essays in honor of William V. Harris

Jean-Jacques Aubert, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi, Paul Christesen, James F. D. Frakes, David B. Hollander, Liu Jinyu, Jennifer Knust, Rachel Kousser, Annalisa Marzano, Myles McDonnell, Sara Elise Phang, P. Jonathan Roth, Saundra Schwartz, Seth Schwartz, L. Glenn Thompson

Volume 216 in this series

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This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity and discuss various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. The essays share a social historical perspective from which they challenge as many commonly accepted notions in ancient history. The contributors acknowledge their intellectual debt to the formative scholarly acumen of William V. Harris, which adds up to the "tall order" of engaging with his work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931419
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77828-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093141-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2006

Körper und Seele

Aspekte spätantiker Anthropologie

Barbara Feichtinger, Stephen Lake, Helmut Seng

Volume 215 in this series

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"Body" and "Soul" are fundamental categories of ancient anthropology. A conference held in Constance in 2004 was particularly devoted to the discussion of aspects of this topic in late antiquity. The present volume includes the papers presented at this conference in revised versions, on Christian, Gnostic and pagan authors.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943740
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77827-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094374-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Die astrologische Lehre der Doryphorie

Eine soziomorphe Metapher in der antiken Planetenastrologie

Susanne Denningmann

Volume 214 in this series

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The categories of this historical astrology study are derived from the actions of projection and reflexion of sociomorphic models (E. Topisch): Which earthly example of doryphory ("speer bearing") is projected on the heavens? Which celestial phenomena are described as doryphory, and where lie the analogies of earthly example and heavenly effigy.

The author systematically translates and analyses all Greek and Roman sources on planetary doryphory up to the 7th century, as well as selected later sources up to Kepler.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110930184
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77826-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093018-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Das Kleine und das Große

Essays zur antiken Kultur und Geistesgeschichte

Christian Mueller-Goldingen

Volume 213 in this series

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Die vorliegenden Essays erstrecken sich von Homer bis zur Spätantike. Sie verfolgen mehrere Ziele: Zum einen wollen sie zeigen, wie die Griechen und Römer Strategien der Lebensbewältigung entwickelten und wie sie auch die Literatur so instrumentalisieren konnten, dass diese als Ideenlieferant für die Praxis dienen konnte. Literatur wird in diesem Essays nicht als ein Bereich neben der Praxis begriffen, sondern als ein Teilbereich von Wirklichkeit. Die griechische und römische Kultur soll in diesen Essays als etwas in Erscheinung treten, zu dem die beiden antiken Literaturen von Anfang an dazugehörten. Zum anderen geht es in diesen Essays auch darum, das Klischee von den theorieverliebten Griechen und den praktischen Römern zu revidieren. Und schließlich versuchen diese Essays, an eine von Montaigne begründete Tradition anzuknüpfen. Essays sollten auch ein Menschenbild entwerfen. Die vorliegenden Essays wollen auch zeigen, wie die Griechen und Römer dachten und wie sie mit Alltagsproblemen umgingen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928839
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77825-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092883-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Bilderreigen und Erzähllabyrinth

Catulls Carmen 64

Michaela Schmale

Volume 212 in this series

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Despite a large number of studies, Catullus' so-called Peleus-epic (poem 64) is still said to be enigmatic and hermetic. In a seemingly loose thematic coherence it narrates not only the nuptial of Peleus with the immortal Thetis, but also - across the different media image and song - the fate of Ariadne and the deeds of Achilles ending with a topical lament. The often criticised structure of the whole is here taken seriously as a complex, but highly artistic narrative that excells in its very own structural coherence. In particular consideration of the different narrators and different types of narration, medial aspects (ecphrastic writing, (linguistic) images) and intertextual references, this study tries to offer a new reading of the poem.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940374
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77824-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094037-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Kommentar zu V. 367-746 von Aviens Neugestaltung der Phainomena Arats

Martin Fiedler

Volume 211 in this series

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Avienus' version of Aratos' didatic poem 'Phainomena', written around AD 360, is notorious for its difficulty. Reworking earlier didactic literature, Avienus extended or shortened the original versions as he pleased. This commentary includes detailed information on astronomical history and the mythology of the constellations; it tries to explain both the poet's technique and his often baroque text. Avienus has an individual approach to the use of epic formulae and literature sources. The analysis makes very clear that this pagan writer is an underestimated poeta doctus of an era in which Christianity hat long been dominant.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940381
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77823-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094038-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Carmen choliambicum quod apud Ps.-Callisthenis Historiam Alexandri reperitur

Tommaso Braccini

Volume 210 in this series

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Amongst the several poetical passages appearing in the so-called Alexander Romance, the one concerning the capture of Thebes and the dramatic contraposition between Alexander and Ismenias the flute-player stands out for its frequent erudite references to mythology, for its unusually sublime language, and, unfortunately, for its very corrupted text. This volume contains a new critical edition of the poem extensively exploiting the ancient Syriac and Armenian translations, as well as a full commentary and a thorough introduction dealing, among other, with the deep relations between this enigmatic text and late imperial-age poetry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944426
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77822-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094442-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Die Suche nach der Schuld

Sophokles' Oedipus Rex, Aristoteles' Poetik und das Tragödienverständnis der Neuzeit

Michael Lurje

Volume 209 in this series

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Die am Ende des 20. Jh.s im deutschen Sprachraum entstandene und bis heute nicht beigelegte Kontroverse um die Deutung der Tragödien des Sophokles führte nicht so sehr zu einem eindeutigen 'Paradigmenwechsel', sondern legte vielmehr erneut die methodische Unsicherheit der Klassischen Philologie gegenüber Fragen der Gesamtinterpretation bloß. Dieses Buch möchte die verfahrene Diskussion auf eine neue Grundlage stellen, indem es die geistesgeschichtlichen und methodischen Voraussetzungen der neueren Sophokles-Deutungen und somit der Sophokles-Interpretation überhaupt in mehreren Schritten systematisch zu klären versucht. Ein erster Teil legt die Geschichte des Verständnisses und der Deutung der griechischen Tragödie im allgemeinen und des sophokleischen Oedipus Rex im besonderen zwischen 1500 und 1900 in ihrer gedanklichen Entwicklung und im Zusammenhang mit der europäischen Tragödientheorie analytisch dar. Ein zweiter Teil geht einigen zentralen und bis heute nicht eindeutig geklärten Postulaten der Tragödien- und Handlungstheorie des Aristoteles und deren neuzeitlichen Interpretationen nach, die das Verständnis der griechischen Tragödie Jahrhunderte lang bestimmt haben und durch die neueren Sophokles-Interpretationen wieder ins Zentrum der Diskussion gerückt sind. Ein dritter Teil versucht, die Aporien der Sophokles-Interpretationen literaturtheoretisch zu erfassen und wirft erneut die Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Kriterien eines angemessenen Verständnisses der sophokleischen Tragödie auf.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944419
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77821-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094441-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Der Hylas-Mythos in der antiken Literatur

Kenneth Mauerhofer

Volume 208 in this series

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On the Argonauts' expedition, Heracles is accompanied by his beloved friend, the beautiful, young Hylas, until, during a stopover, he loses him to one or more fountain nymphs, who lust for him at first sight. Heracles' subsequent efforts to find him are in vain. This myth was popular from at least hellenistic times until late antiquity and therefore served several famous authors (Theocritus, Apollonius Rhodius, Nicander, Propertius, Valerius Flaccus, Ausonius and Dracontius) as a welcome subject.

The study first considers hints at possibly lost representations of the story, then explores the transmitted texts in their narrative, stylistical, structural and intertextual aspects. It also addresses questions of priority.

Appendix 1: The Hylas-texts. Appendix 2: Metrical analyses (Valerius, Dracontius). Indexes of passages, names and topics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944433
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77820-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094443-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Dialog der Tragiker

Liebe, Wahn und Erkenntnis in Sophokles’ Trachiniai und Euripides’ Hippolytos

Markus Janka

Volume 207 in this series

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In dieser Studie wird ein neues Paradigma für die Interpretation der erhaltenen attischen Tragödien entwickelt und exemplarisch erprobt. Nach einer forschungsgeschichtlichen und methodologischen Grundlegung führt der Weg der Untersuchung von Bauformen und Strukturen über Motive und Handlungsmuster (Patterns) der Stücke zu den Dichtern, ihrer (Kon)Genialität und Originalität selbst: Die Analyse des Stils diente dabei als Schlüsselinstrument gegen wenig reflektierte klassizistische wie manieristische Vorurteile. Das Paradigma des Dialoges der großen Tragiker soll die Stelle der Abhängigkeitsfixierung einnehmen. Die 'klassische Form' bietet Euripides im Hippolytos den idealen Rahmen für die 'antiklassischem' Stilwillen entspringenen Brüche mit der Sophokleischen Sinnstiftung, wie sie auch und gerade anhand der nach wie vor vielfach unterschätzten Trachinierinnen aufweisbar ist. Die bislang kaum bemerkte, enge Verwandtschaft beider Stücke wird mit Hilfe der Theorie der Intertextualität erhellt. Dabei lässt sich allenthalben belegen, wie Euripides durch Exzentrik, Paradox, Digression, Rhetorizität, Anachronismus, Absurdität und tragikomische sowie sophistisch-philosophische Brechung des Bühnengeschehens die 'konsequente' und quasi-natürliche Entwicklung von Handlungsschriften, Figurenzeichnung und göttlicher Geschehenslenkung unterläuft, wie sie in der Sophokleischen Tragik ihr Musterbild gefunden hat.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966565
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77819-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096656-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2004

Menodoto di Nicomedia

Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica

Lorenzo Perilli

Volume 206 in this series

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Menodotus of Nicomedia (II AD) has usually been considered as one of the most important among the physicians of the so-called Greek Empirical school, as well as, according to an-cient testimonies, a leading figure of Skepticism and, at least until mid-20th century, a fore-runner of modern experimental science. This book offers the first scientific monograph en-tirely devoted to an empirical doctor, together with a collection of fragments in the form of a "running commentary". In the resulting frame, a more reliable historical position is re-covered for Menodotus (and, through him, for the last development of Greek empirical medicine), and the usual picture is substantially altered. Main lines of the work are the problem of sources, which can be identified almost exclusively with the famous doctor Galen, and of their trustworthiness; the misunderstood role of Menodotus as a source of Galen for his picture of Empiricism; the mutual relationship between the concepts of reason and experience, and the problematical acceptance of the former into the empirical doctrine; the relationship of Menodotus to his forerunners, not only inside the school but also in the post-Aristotelian history of medicine and philosophy, starting from Diocles of Carystus and up to Heraclides of Tarentum and to the Epicureanism of Philodemus. The Introduction tries a.o. to understand the role of Greek Empiricism in the history of science. The book also contains a detailed bibliography and five Indexes, as well as an Epilegomenon, in which the authenticity of some works of Galen concerning Empiricism is discussed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966572
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77818-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096657-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

The Manuscript Tradition of Procopius' Gothic Wars

A Reconstruction of Family y in the light of a hitherto unkown Manuscript (Athos, Lavra H-73)

Maria Kalli

Volume 205 in this series

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The Introduction, which gives information about the life and work of Procopius and also about previous editions and studies of the text, is followed by Chapter 1 which contains an analytical codicological and palaeological description of codex Ath, which was written in the late 13th century and is thus the earliest extant ms of Procopius' Wars. Section 2 examines the position of the codex in the stemma codicum, proposed by the latest editor of the text, Jacob Haury, Procopius Caesariensis Opera Omnia (Teubner: Leipzig, 1905-12, revised by G.Wirth, 1963). A collation of the text with the principal manuscripts (K and L) of the two families, z and y, shows that Ath belongs to the y family. A further collation of Ath with all other extant manuscripts of this family of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, illustrates the importance of Ath in the tradition of the text, despite its minor phonetic, grammatical, syntactical and linguistic errors. Section 3 gives a description and updated information of all manuscripts of family y, which were briefly described by previous editors, and some of them were not examined at all, before their relation is examined and the stemma codicum is revised on the basis of a series of propositions. It is concluded that Ath has been the exemplar for some of the later manuscripts, either directly or through intermediaries. The study concludes with a more theoretical chapter, Section 4, which places the production of Ath and other manuscripts, containing Procopius' works and other early Byzantine historiographical texts, in the general context of the intellectual milieu of the Palaeologan period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110955125
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77817-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095512-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Mutter - Tochter - Geliebte

Weibliche Rollenkonflikte bei Ovid

Gabriele Stein

Volume 204 in this series

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Dass sich Ovid auch und gerade in der Darstellung der weiblichen Psyche als besonders einfühlsamer Menschenkenner erweist, ist schon des öfteren beobachtet worden. Dieses Einfühlungsvermögen läßt sich in der zugespitzten Situation des Rollenkonfliktes in besonderer Weise deutlich machen. Anhand von fünf Frauengestalten, die der Dichter bewußt in das Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und persönlichen Sehnsüchten, von epischer Pflicht und elegischer Liebe hineinstellt, weist die vorliegende Monographie nach, wie Ovid sich die weibliche Perspektive zunutze macht, um überkommene Strukturen zu hinterfragen und das individuell Menschliche aufzudecken, das sich hinter den Fassaden und im Dschungel der Tabus und Konventionen seine je eigenen Wege bahnt.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956542
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77816-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095654-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Kommentar

Claudia Wick

Part of the multi-volume work M. Annaeus Lucanus: "Bellum civile", liber IX

Volume 202 in this series

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Up to now the ninth and longest book of Lucan's poem on the Civil War has lacked a continuous commentary satisfying modern requirements. This want has now been supplied. The Latin text is accompanied by a new German translation, which incorporates all the insights resulting from the detailed commentary. An introduction discusses such topics as Lucan's treatment of his historical sources and of various literary models. Extensive indexes complete the work. Besides the examination of the poet1s language and style, particular attention is paid throughout to questions of his epic technique and the use of typical motifs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110967869
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77814-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096786-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2004

Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung

Claudia Wick

Part of the multi-volume work M. Annaeus Lucanus: "Bellum civile", liber IX

Volume 201 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948332
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77813-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094833-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Suger von Saint-Denis

Untersuchungen zu seinen Schriften Ordinatio - De consecratione - De administratione

Susanne Linscheid-Burdich

Volume 200 in this series

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Die als Kölner Dissertation bei Prof. Dr. Clemens Zintzen entstandene Arbeit "Suger von Saint-Denis. Untersuchungen zu seinen Schriften Ordinatio - De Consecratione - De Administratione" geht der Frage nach, welche Vorbilder für den im zwölften Jahrhundert schreibenden Abt und Bauherrn Suger von Saint-Denis bei der Abfassung seiner urkundlichen Verfügung, seines Bau- und Weiheberichts und seines Berichts über sein Abbatiat bestimmend waren. Die genannten Schriften Sugers werden auf dem Hintergrund der ihm zur Verfügung stehenden Quellen interpretiert. Insbesondere die Frage nach dem Einfluss des Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita wird kritisch beleuchtet; die Verfasserin weist nach, dass nicht die mystifizierte Sicht des Neuplatonikers, sondern Sugers Verwurzelung im benediktinischen Mönchtum seine Darstellung prägt und dass seine Kontakte zu bedeutenden Zeitgenossen ihren Niederschlag in seinen Schriften finden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956535
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77812-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095653-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Die Beseelung des Kosmos

Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in Platons Phaidon und Timaios

Filip Karfik

Volume 199 in this series

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In welchem Verhältnis steht die Seelenlehre zur Kosmologie in Platons Phaidon? Welche Rolle spielen die Schicksale der Seelen in der Ökonomie des Weltalls und wie sind unter diesem Gesichtspunkt die Unsterblichkeitsbeweise des Phaidon zu lesen? Das Ineinander von Seelenlehre und Kosmologie im Phaidon weist auf den späten Timaios mittels der Deutung der Worte theoi theon aus der Ansprache des Demiurgen an die jungen Götter. Es folgt eine umfassende Studie über die Bewegungslehre des Timaios, die eine systematische Interpretation der Kosmologie dieses Dialoges bietet, in deren Mittelpunkt die Rolle des demiurgischen nous steht. Die Unterschungen, denen ein philosophisches Interesse zugrunde liegt, werden anhand minutiöser philologischer Analyse geführt.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110930801
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77811-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093080-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2004

Gynaikon Katalogos und Megalai Ehoiai

Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten zweier hesiodeischer Epen

Martina Hirschberger

Volume 198 in this series

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This book is the first commentary on the complete fragments of the two Hesiodic epics "Catalogue of Women" and "Great Ehoiai". The epics are about the famous women from Greek mythology, for example Antiope, Alkmene, Danae and Koronis. The Greek text of the more than 150 fragments is based on the standard edition by R. Merkelbach and M. L. West, but contains also some fragments that are not included in that edition, taking account of more recent research. In addition to the treatment of linguistic and textual problems the stories of the mythical women an the genealogical structure of the epics on the whole are reconstructed in the commentary. The book also presents a detailed bibliography of scholarly research on each fragment. The general introduction treats the question of authorship and time of composition of the epics as well as their social context and their place in the history of Greek literature.

ISBN:: 9783598778100
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Das Epithalamium in der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike

Sabine Horstmann

Volume 197 in this series

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Das literarische Hochzeitsgedicht zur Feier des Brautpaares (Epithalamium) war in der Spätantike eine beliebte Literaturgattung, die wichtige gesellschaftliche Funktionen erfüllte. Sie diente der Pflege sozialer Beziehungen, konnte aber auch für die Durchsetzung eigener Interessen oder für politische und religiöse Propaganda instrumentalisiert werden. Namhafte Autoren der Spätantike wie Claudian und Sidonius Apollinaris gehören zu den Verfassern. In einer Verbindung von historischen und altphilologischen Ansätzen wird die Gattung des lateinischen Hochzeitsgedichtes hier erstmals seit fast einem Jahrhundert umfassend untersucht. Die Entwicklung des Epithalamiums von den Anfängen bis in die Kaiserzeit wird dabei ausführlich berücksichtigt. Durch eine genaue Lektüre der Gedichte unter Einbeziehung der neueren Forschungsliteratur wird eine Neubewertung der Gattung möglich: Spätantike Epithalamiendichter waren keine "Kopisten", sondern gestalten ihre Werke durchaus innovativ. Ihre Gedichte stehen im Spannungsfeld von antiker Tradition und einer christlichen Neubewertung von Ehe, Sexualität und den Konventionen der klassischen Literatur. Dieser Band trägt damit zu einer differenzierten Sicht der Spätantike bei und erschließt ein bisher wenig erforschtes Gebiet der lateinischen Literatur.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956528
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77809-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095652-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Der Panathenaikos des Isokrates

Übersetzung und Kommentar

Peter Roth

Volume 196 in this series

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Der athenische Rhetor Isokrates, Zeitgenosse und geistiger Gegenspieler Platons, verfasste zwischen 342 und 339 seine Altersschrift 'Panathenaikos' in der er Athen pries und Sparta tadelte. Problematisch ist dieses Werk vor allem wegen seines merkwürdigen Anhangs, in dem Isokrates eine Diskussion wiedergibt, die im Kreis seiner Schüler über die noch unveröffentlichte Rede stattgefunden haben soll. Hier lässt Isokrates einen Schüler den Sinn der Rede völlig umdeuten, ohne dass er als Autor dazu Stellung nimmt. Der vorgelegte Kommentar zeigt durch eine gründliche Nachzeichnung des Gedankenganges und die Aufdeckung literarischer Bezüge, dass ein angemessenes Gesamtverständnis des Werkes nur vor dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung des Isokrates mit der platonischen Konzeption von Rhetorik zu gewinnen ist. Die Ergebnisse betreffen nicht nur Klassische Philologen, sondern auch Althistoriker, Philosophen und an Rhetorik interessierte Literaturwissenschaftler.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959741
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77808-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095974-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Aktualisierung von Antike und Epochenbewusstsein

Erstes Bruno Snell-Symposion

Gerhard Lohse, Joachim Dingel, Norbert Finzsch, Ludwig Fischer, Martin Hose, Solveig Malatrait, Gunter Martens, Kjeld Matthiessen, Jochen Meissner, Robert Olwitz, Martin Schierbaum, Lambert Schneider, Franzjosef Schuh, Stefan Timm, Ulrich Wergin

Volume 195 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952698
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77807-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095269-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Raum, Zeit und soziales Rollenspiel der vier Kardinalpunkte in der antiken Katarchenhoroskopie

Wolfgang Hübner

Volume 194 in this series

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Mehr als uns dies im allgemeinen bewusst ist, bestimmte die Astrologie in der Antike das gesamte politische, gesellschaftliche und private Leben. Ihren Höhepunkt erreichte sie vom ersten bis zum vierten Jahrhundert nach Christus, doch auch danach gelang es dem Christentum nicht, die Lehre und den Glauben an sie ganz auszurotten, im griechischen Osten noch weniger als im lateinischen Westen. Wer heute von Horoskopen spricht, denkt in der Regel an individuelle Geburtshoroskope. Die antike Geburtshoroskopie war jedoch nur ein Teil der astrologischen Lehre. Daneben gab es die allgemeine Astrologie, in der es um die Zukunft von Städten, Ländern oder gar der ganzen Welt ging. In der vorliegenden Abhandlung sind alle astrologischen Theorien der antiken Philosophenschulen zu den scheinbaren Gestirnbewegungen bzw. zur Rotation der Himmelskugel - in Wirklichkeit unsere Erde - sowie ihre Bedeutungen für das individuelle und gesellschaftliche Leben erfasst.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110937237
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77806-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093723-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Mensa Regia

Das Bankett beim hellenistischen König und beim römischen Kaiser

Konrad Vössing

Volume 193 in this series

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Banquettes were an important part of the representation of classical rulers. In this function they are reconstructed from the sources, systematically presented and analysed here for the first time. In the process, the question of the possible existence of a genetic relation between the Hellenic 'deipnon basilikon' and emporer's convivium is considered, and also whether these events constitute uniformly structured institutions. It provides insights not only into the 'table customs' of kings and emperors, but also into the expectations of and the manner in which different rulers self-conceptions were manifested in the ritual life of their courts and houses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943061
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77805-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094306-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Die Prinzipien der Aristotelischen Topik

Michael Schramm

Volume 192 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952704
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77804-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095270-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Pacuvius - summus tragicus poeta

Zum dramatischen Profil seiner Tragödien

Gesine Manuwald

Volume 191 in this series

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In De optimo genere oratorum bezeichnet Cicero M. Pacuvius als 'summus tragicus poeta' und auch nach anderen Zeugnissen scheint er ein bekannter und beliebter Dramatiker gewesen zu sein. Aufgrund dieses Befundes wird in der vorliegenden Studie der bisher noch nicht untersuchten Fragen nach den Gründen für eine solche Wertschätzung nachgegangen. Mit einem dem fragmentarischen Erhaltungszustand von Pacuvius' dramatischen Werken angepassten Ansatz wird versucht, präzisere Vorstellungen und Charakteristika der Tragödien zu gewinnen. Eine systematisierende Analyse von häufigeren Motiven und Handlungsstrukturen kann Indizien für eine Gestaltung geben, die als typisch für Pacuvius anzusehen ist, und so eine tendenzielle Bestimmung des Profils seiner Tragödien ermöglichen. Damit will die Untersuchung zu einem differenzierten Bild von Pacuvius' Dramen sowie der republikanischen Tragödie insgesamt beitragen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953954
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77803-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095395-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

FOMENTA CAMPANIAE

Ein Kommentar zu Senecas 51., 55. und 56. Brief

Christoph Hönscheid

Volume 190 in this series

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Einen wissenschaftlichen Gesamtkommentar zu Senecas Epistulae morales gibt es bisher nicht. Lediglich Kommentare zu einer Briefauswahl oder zu einzelnen Briefen wurden vorgelegt. Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt eine Gruppe von drei Briefen (51, 55, 56), in denen Seneca vor dem Hintergrund des römischen Seebads Baiae und den Menschen, die sich dort oder in seiner Umgebung aufhielten, die Trias Balnea vina Venus (für römische Ohren sprichwörtlich für Lasterhaftigkeit und Verweichlichung) in kunst- und humorvoller Weise von den Inhalten stoischer praktischer Ethik absetzt. Gemeinsames Thema ist die Relevanz des Aufenthaltsortes für denjenigen, der in der stoischen Philosophie Fortschritte machen möchte.

Der Schwerpunkt der Kommentierung liegt auf der Analyse von Einzelthemen der Briefe unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Stellung im Kontext der Schriften Senecas und der antiken Literatur.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956559
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77802-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095655-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Euripides im Kontext zeitgenössischer intellektueller Strömungen

Analyse der Funktion philosophischer Themen in den Tragödien und Fragmenten

Franziska Egli

Volume 189 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968200
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77801-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096820-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Dramaturgie und Ideologie

Der politische Mythos in den Hikesiedramen des Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides

Rüdiger Bernek

Volume 188 in this series

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Diese Studie entwickelt ausgehend von grundsätzlichen Überlegungen zu den Produktionsbedingungen der griechischen Tragödie in ihrem soziologischen, politischen und v.a. ideologischen Kontext ein Interpretationsparadigma auf der Grundlage moderner Intertextualitätstheorie und macht es für die Interpretation der fünf Hikesiedramen fruchtbar. Eingehend untersucht werden auf dieser Grundlage: Aischylos' Hiketiden und Eumeniden, Sophokles: Oidipus auf Kolonos, Euripides' Herakliden und Supplices. Durch die Aufdeckung zahlreicher bisher vernachlässigter intertextueller Bezüge wird es erstmals möglich, den spezifischen Charakter der untersuchten Dramen sowohl aus der Wechselwirkung zwischen literarischer Tradition und ideologischem Diskurs als auch aus dem intertextuellen Dialog der Tragiker zu erklären.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966589
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77800-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096658-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Plinius der Jüngere und seine Zeit

Luigi Castagna, Eckard Lefèvre, Chiara Riboldi, Stefan Faller, Ulrike Auhagen, Thomas Baier, Vincenz Pier Cova, Paolo Cugusi, Giovanna Galimberti Biffino, Roberto Gazich, Domenico Lassandro, Elio Lo Cascio, Gesine Manuwald, Giancarlo Mazzoli, Harald Mielsch, Sigrid Mratschek, Gianna Petrone, Jan Radicke, Franz Römer, Marta Sordi, Karl Strobel, Meinolf Vielberg, Gregor Vogt-Spira

Volume 187 in this series

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Der Band enthält 21 Beiträge deutscher und italienischer Gelehrter zu den Briefen und dem Panegyricus des jüngeren Plinius, die durch genaue Interpretationen versuchen, die Gedankenwelt dieses Repräsentanten an der Wende vom 1. zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. unter den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten (Literatur, Rhetorik, Ästhetik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Rezeption) in das Denken der Römer seiner Zeit einzuordnen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959758
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77739-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095975-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2005

Dracontius und der Mythos

Christliche Weltsicht und pagane Kultur in der ausgehenden Spätantike

Roswitha Simons

Volume 186 in this series

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Dracontius' work covers religious and profane poetry, including some short epics, which stand out from better-known versions of the myths, due to their variations, which are difficult to interpret. The relationship between the groups of works is disputed. Using the religious poetry, these studies initially deal with the main features of his worldview and ethics as well as his concepts of gods and myths, and examine in detail the extensive use of myths in the Laudes Dei. Using this as a basis and referring to the mythical traditions, the short epic Medea and De raptu Helenae are thoroughly analysed and interpreted. During this process the remaining profane poetry is considered and perspectives for its interpretation are demonstrated. Dracontius' approach to myth is no longer influenced by Christian rejection, allegorical appropriation or uncritical reverence of tradition, rather it is based on his new interpretations of the myths in religious and profane poetry as a synthesis of Christian world view and pagan culture. They bear witness to the altered relationship of Christians to these traditions in the late Classical period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110930146
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77738-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093014-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Euripides Politikos

Recht und Rache in 'Orestes' und 'Bakchen'

Jens Holzhausen

Volume 185 in this series

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Das Buch enthält eine vergleichende Interpretation der beiden Tragödien, die Euripides am Ende seines Lebens (gest. 406 v. Chr.) verfasst hat. Es wird versucht, die Parallelen beider Werke in Handlungsablauf, dramaturgischem Konzept und Aussageabsicht aufzuzeigen. Dies ermöglicht es, das umstrittene Problem zu lösen, mit welchen Intentionen der Dichter die zumeist als "rätselhaft" empfundenen 'Bakchen' verfasste. Aufgrund des Vergleiches erweist sich das Stück als ein politisches Dokument, das die unauflösliche Problematik einer Ethik, die auf Rache und Vergeltung beruht, zeigt und die Grenzen deutlich macht, die dem Theater als gesellschaftlicher Institution gesetzt sind.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110930139
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77737-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093013-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2004

Die Christen und der Körper

Aspekte der Körperlichkeit in der christlichen Literatur der Spätantike

Barbara Feichtinger, Helmut Seng, Timon Binder, Alfred Breitenbach, Therese Fuhrer, Stephen Lake, Christoph Markschies, Katharina Waldner

Volume 184 in this series

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Fragen des Körpers und der Körperlichkeit finden zunehmend das Interesse der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung; gerade dem spätantiken Christentum gilt in diesem Zusammenhang immer wieder besondere Beachtung. Der Sammelband stellt in den Mittelpunkt das Motiv des leidenden Körpers, der aufgefasst ist als kulturelles Symbol und Kommunikationsmedium bei Integration und Abgrenzung des Christentums in seinem Bezug auf die spätantike Gesellschaft und Geisteswelt. Mönchsaskese und Martyrium, Krankheit und Schmerz bilden die wichtigsten Bezugspunkte der einzelnen Beiträge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943719
ISBN:: 9783110943719
ISBN:: 9783598777363
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

DIORTHOSEIS

Beiträge zur Geschichte des Hellenismus und zum Nachleben Alexanders des Großen

Rüdiger Kinsky, Gerhard Dobesch, Vasile Lica, Guido Schepens, Gerhard Wirth, Michael Zahrnt

Volume 183 in this series

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Die Aufsätze des Bandes sind die überarbeiteten und zum Teil stark erweiterten Fassungen von Vorträgen, die im Dezember 2001 auf einem Internationalen Kolloquium in Bonn gehalten wurden. Sie behandeln Probleme, die sich mit der Geschichte jeder Weltepoche verbinden, an deren Anfang, Johann Gustav Droysen zufolge, der Name Alexander steht. Michael Zahrnt (Köln) fragt - Ist Samos 'eine Reise wert'? - und wartet mit einer Neuinterpretation des Verbanntendekrets (324 v. Chr.) auf. Gerhard Wirth (Bonn) arbeitet in seinem Beitrag "Der Epitaphios des Hypereides und das Ende einer Illusion" die kritische Potenz und resignative Tendenz des Epitaphs heraus. Vasile Lica (Galatzi) liefert unter dem Titel "Alexander der Große in Rumänien" eine knappe Geschichte der Alexanderrezeption in der rumänischen Literatur, Kunst und Historiographie vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Guido Schepens (Leuven) begibt sich wieder in die hellenistische Zeit, rückt "Die Westgriechen in antiker und moderner Universalgeschichte" ins Blickfeld und widmet dem Sosylos-Fragment (FGrHist 1769) kritische Überlegungen. Gerhard Dobesch (Wien) legt in seinem Aufsatz "Caesar und der Hellenismus" dar, wie stark die Geisteswelt der späten Republik von griechischen Denkformen hellenistischer Tönung geprägt war. Die Lektüre des Bandes macht rasch klar, warum ihm der Obertitel DIORTHOSEIS gegeben wurde. Die darin versammelten Aufsätze 'berichtigen' in der Tat etliche Positionen der Forschung. Sie führen die Lebendigkeit der Altertumswissenschaft vor Augen und widerlegen das Vorurteil, in ihr ließen sich Neuansätze und -erkenntnisse nicht mehr gewinnen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966701
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77735-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096670-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Antike Rhetorik im Zeitalter des Humanismus

Carl Joachim Classen

Volume 182 in this series

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In sehr verschiedener Weise haben die Werke der antiken Autoren auf die späteren Jahrhunderte gewirkt - verschieden die einzelnen Autoren, verschieden in den einzelnen Ländern, verschieden in den einzelnen Epochen, verschieden hinsichtlich Inhalt oder Form. Die vorliegende Aufsatzsammlung geht vor allem dem Einfluss nach, den die Reden Ciceros auf die rhetorische Theorie und Praxis und damit auf Sprache, Stiltheorie und literarische Gestaltung in den romanischen Ländern (Kapitel I: Italien und Frankreich; Kapitel II: Spanien; Kapitel III bei Georg von Trapezunt) und in Deutschland (Kap. VI und VII; Kapitel VII bei Heinrich Bebel) im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert ausgeübt haben. Im fünften Kapitel wird zum Vergleich der Einfluss des jüngeren Seneca im sechzehnten Jahrhundert miteinbezogen, im vierten Kapitel der Einfluss Quintilians auf die rhetorischen und pädagogischen Ideen des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts dargestellt, im zehnten der Ciceros auf die Johannes Sturms. Das neunte Kapitel ist den Neuerungen gewidmet, denen Melanchthon die rhetorischen Theorien der Antike und die mittelalterlichen Predigtlehren unterwirft, sowie dem vielfältigen Einfluss dieser Neuerungen, das elfte ergänzend den antiken und mittelalterlichen Traditionen, die im Stadtlob Lodovico Guicciardini's fortleben. Die früher schon veröffentlichten Aufsätze sind alle unter Berücksichtigung der neuesten Literatur überarbeitet, einige völlig umgestaltet und wesentlich ergänzt, und der Band ist durch ein ausführliches Register erschlossen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952926
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77734-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095292-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Trauer im humanistischen Dialog

Das Trostgespräch des Giannozzo Manetti und seine Quellen

Ulrike Schaeben

Volume 181 in this series

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Ist Trauer ein Ergebnis sozialer Konventionen, entspringt sie gar der Einbildung des Betroffenen, oder liegt sie vielmehr in der Natur des Menschen? Dieser existenziell bedeutsamen Frage geht der Renaissance- Autor Giannozzo Manetti in seiner Schrift Dialogus consolatorius nach und spannt dabei den Bogen von der antiken Tradion über die christliche Trostliteratur hinüber in seine eigene Zeit, in der ein Paradigmenwechsel stattfindet. Manetti qualifiziert die Trauer als natürliche, wesentlich zum Menschsein gehörige Empfindung und hält ein mutiges Plädoyer für die emotionale Emanzipation des Menschen.

Kern der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist eine eng an den zugrundeliegenden Quellen orientierte Kommentierung des Dialoges , die besonders den epocheübergreifend interessierten Altphilologen anspreichen wird. Die Übersetzung des lateinischen Textes im Anhang der Arbeit macht die Argumentation Manettis für Leser aller Fachrichtungen nachvollziehbar.

Am Ende der Arbeit steht ein Versuch, dem Renaissance-Text im Blick auf die Trauertheorien der modernen Psychologie einen aktuellen Bezug zu verleihen und vergleichbare Erfahrungen aufzuzeigen, die Betroffene in der Ausnahmesituation des Trauerfalls in allen Zeiten durchleben.

Neben Sach- und Personenregister erleichtert eine ausführliche Einleitung zur Gattungsgeschichte und zur Wirkungszeit den Zugang zum Thema.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110951684
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77733-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095168-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Aristophanes und die Freiheit der Komödie

Untersuchungen zu den frühen Stücken unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Acharner

Christian Brockmann

Volume 180 in this series

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Zentrale Themen dieses Buches sind der politische und der gesellschaftliche Kontext, die Auseinandersetzung mit dem führenden Politiker Kleon, das Zusammenspiel von Komödie und Tragödie, besonders das Verhältnis des Arstophanes zu Euripides sowie die Zusammenarbeit des Aristophanes mit den Regisseuren Kallistratos und Philonides. Das letztgenannte Thema wird hier enger mit der Frage nach dem politischen Impetus verzahnt und in größerem Zusammenhang behandelt.

Vor dem Hintergrund der intensiven Debatte über die politische Dimension der Alten Komödie wird in dieser Arbeit die These vertreten, dass es Aristhophanes in seinen Komödien ganz wesentlich auch darum gegangen ist, an der Politik Athens durch Spott und Komik erstgemeinte Kritik zu üben und mit den Mitteln seiner Kunst auf die öffentliche Meinung einzuwirken.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975291
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77729-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097529-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2002

Götter, Geister und Dämonen

Unheilsmächte bei Aischylos - Zwischen Aberglauben und Theatralik

Franziska Geisser

Volume 179 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958690
ISBN:: 9783598777288
ISBN:: 9783110958690
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Vertauschte Sinne

Untersuchungen zur Synästhesie in der römischen Dichtung

Christoph Catrein

Volume 178 in this series

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Die Abhandlung dokumentiert erstmals in systematischer Weise synästetische Metaphorik als Element der lateinischen Dichtersprache. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei dem Lehrgedicht des Lukrez, denn durch die herausgehobene Bedeutung der Sinneswahrnehmung in der epikureischen Erkenntnislehre haben die Synästhesien in De rerum natura eine besondere argumentative Funktion. Mit den theoretischen Vorüberlegungen leistet die Arbeit auch einen allgemeinen Beitrag zur Interpretation poetischer Metaphern.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960969
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77727-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096096-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2002

Solons politische Elegien und Iamben (fr. 1-13, 32-37 W.)

Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Christoph Mülke

Volume 177 in this series

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Die Reste der elegischen und iambischen Dichtung Solons waren stets Gegenstand intensi ver altertumskundlicher Forschung. Trotzdem liegt die letzte umfassende Kommentierung der erhaltenen Fragmente über achtzig Jahre zurück. Diese Lücke füllt jetzt für die politischen Fragmente der neue Kommentar von Christoph Mülke. Gewählt ist dabei ein interdisziplinärer Zugang, der aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, sprachwissenschaftlicher und althistorischer Perspektive die Fragmente behandelt, die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte kritisch bewertet und eine neue Grundlage für die Soloninterpretation legt. Dem Kommentar ist eine Einleitung, eine kritische Textedition sowie eine Übersetzung der kommentierten Fragmente beigefügt.

ISBN:: 9783598777264
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Studium declamatorium

Untersuchungen zu Schulübungen und Prunkreden von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit

Bianca-Jeanette Schröder, Jens-Peter Schröder, Marc Beck, Hubert Cancik, Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier, Dorothee Gall, Walter Jens, Claudia Klodt, Gernot Krapinger, Massimo Lolli, Walther Ludwig, Manfred G. Schmidt, Antonio Stramaglia, Wilfried Stroh, Christine Walde, Michael Winterbottom, Jessica Wissmann, Michael Zinsmaier

Volume 176 in this series

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Declamationes, das sind Übungsreden über fiktive Themen im Rhetorikunterricht, durch die der Schüler auf seine etwaige spätere Rednertätigkeit in der Politik, vor allem aber auch vor Gericht vorbereitet werden soll. Musterbeispiele solcher Reden konnten der Unterhaltung eines größeren Publikums dienen. In dieser Form rückten sie in die Nähe anderer Prunkreden, die z.B. der Feier einer besonderen Gelegenheit oder Würdigung einer zu ehrenden Person diesen sollten. Der vorliegende Sammelband dokumentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu verschiedenen Mustern der "klangvollen Rede" von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit und ist somit ein Beitrag für eine fächerübergreifende Diskussion zum Gattungsbegriff der declamatio, aber auch zur Geschichte der Rhetorik insgesamt.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928792
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77725-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092879-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Die auf Papyri erhaltenen Kommentare zur Alten Komödie

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der antiken Philologie

Silke Trojahn

Volume 175 in this series

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Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit werden die relevanten Papyri in Form einer Quellensammlung inklusive Übersetzung gegeben. Der zweite Teil widmet sich der Lektüre und Kommentierung der Alten Attischen Komödie in der Antike, wie sie sich in den Papyri und literarischen Quellen darstellt, den verschiedenen Typen und Kommentaren, wobei die vorliegenden Papyri einzeln analysiert werden, sowie der inhaltlichen und formalen Entwicklung der Komödienkommentierung von den Hypomnemata der alexandrinischen Gelehrten bis zu dem in byzantinischer Zeit entstandenen Scholiencorpus zu den Komödien des Aristophanes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110964943
ISBN:: 9783598777240
ISBN:: 9783110964943
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Die Vorstellung vom Willen in der Morallehre Senecas

Rainer Zöller

Volume 173 in this series

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Nach dem Stand der Forschung lässt sich Senecas Vorstellung vom Willen im Rahmen der stoischen Affektpsychologie deuten. Dagegen spricht aber die Grundform der menschlichen Selbsterhaltung, die Seneca statt eines "Ur-Triebes" bzw. eines "Ersten Naturgemäßen" als Überlebenswille erachtet hat. Die vorliegende Abhandlung zeigt, was zu Senecas Vorstellung vom Willen von römischer Tradition vorgegeben war und worin die Neuerung besteht. Im Anschluss daran werden die von Seneca zur moralischen Erneuerung konzipierten Formen und Stufen des Willens in seiner Morallehre erforscht und die dafür erforderliche Affektpsychologie und Willensmetaphysik beleuchtet.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110964905
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77722-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096490-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

Der Sciendum-Kommentar zu den Satiren des Horaz

Roberta Marchionni

Volume 172 in this series

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Mit dem sogenannten "Sciendum" wird erstmals ein mittelalterlicher Gesamtkommentar zu den Satiren des Horaz ediert, wofür alle bekannten Handschriften kollationiert wurden. Beim "Sciendum" handelt es sich um ein Schulbuch, das ein uns unbekannter Gelehrter im Frankreich des 12. Jh. in Mittellatein verfasst hat. Es schöpft aus dem Erbe antiker Horaz-Kommentierung, bildet diese aber eigenständig fort, passt sie den Anforderungen eines sich wandelnden Bildungssystems an und interpretiert die horazische Sittenkritik in einem christlichen Horizont, es stellt damit ein interessantes kulturgeschichtliches Zeugnis mittelalterlicher Antikrezeption dar.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936353
ISBN:: 9783598777219
ISBN:: 9783110936353
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

O tempora, o mores!

Römische Werte und römische Literatur in den letzten Jahrzehnten der Republik

Andreas Haltenhoff, Andreas Heil, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Maximilian Braun, Johannes Christes, Hans Armin Gärtner, Christian Mueller-Goldingen, Markus Peglau, Udo W. Scholz, Martin Spannagel, Anne Weis, Peter Witzmann, Annette Zierl

Volume 171 in this series

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Die zunehmende Auflösung der soziopolitischen Ordnung in der ausgehenden römischen Republik erfaßte auch das System allgemein verbindlicher Werte. Wie sich die literarische Kommunikation der Zeit zu dieser Entwicklung verhielt, untersuchen die hier versammelten Beiträge. Sie sind, wie bereits der Band 'Moribus antiquis res stat Romana' zur römischen Literatur des 3. und 2. Jhs. v. Chr. (BzA 134), aus dem Dresdner Sonderforschungsbereich 'Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit' hervorgegangen. Neben den literarischen Texten werden epigraphische und archäologische Zeugnisse berücksichtigt.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943726
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77720-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094372-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Frauengestalten im Geschichtswerk des T. Livius

Barbara Kowalewski

Volume 170 in this series

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Die Frauen spielen im Geschichtswerk des Titus Livius (ca. 59 v. Chr. - 17 n. Chr.) eine erstaunlich große Rolle. Gefehlt hat aber bisher eine umfassende Arbeit, die die Frauengestalten aus der Sichtweise des römischen Historikers deutete. Konkret geht es um das Problem: Welche positive oder negative Lehre kann und soll der zeitgenössische Leser aus dem Schicksal der dargestellten Frauengestalten ziehen? Dieser und ähnlichen Fragen geht die vorliegende Monographie nach und fächert dabei das breite Spektrum der Frauengestalten auf, das Musterbilder der Keuschheit ebenso wie skrupellose Mörderinnen umfasst, Heldinnen ebenso wie Verräterinnen oder auch Königsmacherinnen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110964936
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77719-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096493-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Angelo Camillo Decembrio De politia litteraria

Angelus Decembrius, Norbert Witten

Volume 169 in this series

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Dieser Band enthält die erste kritische Ausgabe eines aus dem XV. Jahrhundert stammenden umfangreichen Werkes, das einerseits für die Rekonstruktion des geistigen Klimas zur Zeit des Humanismus vor allem in Ferrara von größer Bedeutung ist und andererseits eine gundsätzliche Synthese allgemeinen humanistischen Denkens darstellt. Politia litteraria meint dabei weniger "sprachlich-literarischer Zirkel" als vielmehr "Verfeinerung des (lateinischen) Ausdrucks". Die bisherigen Ausgaben waren entweder nur schwer zugänglich (Codex Vat. Lat. 1794) oder lückenhaft (Druckausgabe Basel 1562) und äußerst verderbt (Druckausgabe Augsburg 1540). Die neuere Ausgabe bietet die gesamte Tradition. In der Einführung in das Werk wird u.a. deutlich, dass zwischen einem ursprünglichen Text (Codex Vat. Lat. 1794) und einem - vom Autor selbst - revidierten Text (Augsburg 1540, Basel 1562) unterschieden werden muß. Ein Registerteil erleichtert die praktische Arbeit mit dem Werk.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958669
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77718-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095866-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Das Verbot der eigenmächtigen Besitzumwandlung im römischen Privatrecht

Ein Beitrag zur rechtshistorischen Spruchregelforschung

Richard Böhr

Volume 168 in this series

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Das Verbot der eigenmächtigen Besitzumwandlung gehört zu jenen Prinzipien des römischen Privatrechts, die sich in stabiler Spruchform über Jahrhunderte hinweg erhalten haben.

Der 1. Teil der Untersuchung fragt aus methodologischer Sicht nach dem Wesen und der Funktion solch regelhaft niedergelegter Rechtsprinzipien im römischen Recht. Im 2. Teil der Arbeit unterzieht der Verfasser die Rechtsregel "nemo sibi ipse causum possessionis mutare potest" einer quellenkritischen Analyse. Er belegt die bislang unbehauptete These, dass die römischen Juristen das Verbot der eigenmächtigen Besitzumwandlung nicht als unverbindliche Maxime, sondern als zwingend geltende Rechtsnorm beachteten. Dieser Befund indentifiziert die Spruchregel als zentrales Element juristischer Entscheidungsfindung in der römischen Antike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958676
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77717-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095867-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2004

Eros und Distanz

Untersuchungen zu Asklepiades in seinem Kreis

Sybille Ihm

Volume 167 in this series

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Die Verse des hellenistischen Dichters Asklepiades von Samos wirken bis heute durch ihre Kühnheit und Emotionalität. In einer Zeit, die sich von den Zwängen der klassischen Epoche befreite und in Kunst und Gesellschaft neue Wege sucht, gehörte er zur Avantgarde. Die Untersuchung erschließt die Dichtung Asklepiades' neu und stellt sie in den Zusammenhang weiterer Zeitzeugnisse. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Asklepiades seine Epigramme konzeptionell in ein Gedankengebäude gefügt hat, und dass diese Gedanken seiner Zeit weit vorauseilten. Bildlich gesprochen finden wir in Asklepiades einen frühen Geistesverwandten des Sturm und Drangs wieder, dessen unbändige Dichtung bis heute zu faszinieren vermag. Abgerundet wird die Untersuchung durch Analysen zur Geschlechterfrage, dem Hetärentum und der hellenistischen Welt. Hand in Hand mit dem gesellschaftlichten Wandel erringen die Frauen im Hellenismus neue Rechte und Möglichkeiten, was wiederum die Dichtung inspiriert.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948349
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77716-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094834-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Odyssea. Responsio Ulixis ad Penelopen

Die humanistische Odyssea decurtata der Berliner Handschrift Diez. B Sant. 41

Christina Meckelnborg, Bernd Schneider

Volume 166 in this series

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In der Berliner Handschrift Ms. Diez. B. Sant. 41 findet sich ein 240 Distichen umfassender lateinischer Text, der durch die Überschrift Odyssea bezeichnet wird. Der Untertitel, der von derselben Hand wie Titel und Text stammt, lautet Responsio Vlixis ad Penelopen per Angelum Sabinum vatem egregium. Bei diesem Text handelt es sich formal um einen Antwortbrief des Odysseus auf einen vorangegangenen Brief seiner Gattin Penelope. Es ist unzweifelhaft, dass sich der mittelalterliche Autor hierbei auf den Penelope-Brief bezieht, der in Ovids Heroides die erste Stelle einnimmt.

Die Herausgeber haben eine mustergültige Edition geschaffen, durch die der Text voll erschlossen werden kann.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958713
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77715-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095871-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2002

Pythagoras in der Spätantike

Studien zu De Vita Pythagorica des Iamblichos von Chalkis

Gregor Staab

Volume 165 in this series

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Die im 6. Jh. v. Chr. von Pythagoras ausgehende politisch mystische Lehre erlebte in der Spätantike vor allem im Umfeld des Neuplatonismus eine wirkmächtige Renaissance, die am eindrücklichsten im Werk des Iamblichos von Chalkis dokumentiert ist. Zum Verständnis seiner noch häufig verkannten Vorlesung "Über das Pythagoreische Leben" bahnt die Studie zum ersten Mal einen Weg, indem sie den vielgestaltigen geistes- und literaturgeschichtlichen Hintergrund entfaltet, vor dem sich Konzeption und Intention des Textes im zeitgenössischen Kontext erschließen lassen. Eine kommentierende Strukturanalyse macht deutlich, welche Schlüsselrolle der neuplatonische Lehrer dem altehrwürdigen Weisen innerhalb seines ethisch-philosophischen Erziehungskonzeptes beimisst.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956498
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77714-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095649-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 2002

Die singulären Iterata der Ilias

Bücher 11-15

Peter Csajkas

Volume 164 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598777134
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2002

The Narratives of Konon

Text, Translation and Commentary of the Diegeseis

Malcolm Kenneth Brown

Volume 163 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598777127
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Virgil's Aeneid

Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology

Wendell V. Clausen

Volume 162 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110963700
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77711-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096370-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Vertis in usum

Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney

John F. Miller, Cynthia Damon, K. Sara Myers, John Dillery, Judith Evans Grubbs, Christopher A. Faraone, George P. Goold, Hays Gregory, D. E. Hill, David Kovacs, J. C. McKeown, David Mehl, John D. Mikalson, Charles E. Murgia, R. G. M. Nisbet, Dirk Obbink, Jay Reed, B. James Rives, Niall Rudd, Gareth Schmeling, Clay Jenny Strauss, Susan Treggiari, Michael Winterbottom

Volume 161 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956924
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77710-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095692-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Metaphysik und Religion

Zur Signatur des spätantiken Denkens / Akten des Internationalen Kongresses vom 13.-17. März 2001 in Würzburg

Theo Kobusch, Michael Erler, Irmgard Männlein-Robert, Dirk Cürsgen

Volume 160 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975529
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77709-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097552-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Il ruolo dei patroni nelle relazioni politiche fra il mondo greco e Roma in età repubblicana ed augustea

Filippo Canali De Rossi

Volume 159 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110977035
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77708-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097703-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2002

Euhemeros von Messene

Leben, Werk und Nachwirkung

Marek Winiarczyk

Volume 157 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110965117
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77706-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096511-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Filippo Beroaldo der Ältere und sein Beitrag zur Properz-Überlieferung

Anna Rose

Volume 156 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952872
ISBN:: 9783110952872
ISBN:: 9783598777059
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Literarische Vitruvrezeption in Leon Battista Albertis 'De re aedificatoria'

Hartmut Wulfram

Volume 155 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952889
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77704-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095288-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2003

III

Part of the multi-volume work Gesammelte Schriften

Volume 154 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933345
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77703-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093334-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

II Zur griechischen Philosophie

Part of the multi-volume work Gesammelte Schriften

Volume 153 in this series

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In den hier vereinigten Beiträgen kommen Überlegungen der Alten zur Sprache, die seinerzeit Epoche gemacht und das Denken auf den Weg rationalen Argumentierens gebracht haben. Sie führen von Hesiod, dessen mythologisch-genealogische Spekulation mehr „Philosophie” enthält, als von einem frühen Epiker zu erwarten ist, über Xenophanes, Parmenides und Protagoras bis hin zu Platon. Die neun Beiträge, die ihm gewidmet sind, ergänzen die vor einigen Jahren erschienenen 'Wege zu Platon'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934601
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77702-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093460-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

I Zum frühgriechischen Epos

Part of the multi-volume work Gesammelte Schriften

Volume 152 in this series

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Der Band beginnt mit der Skizze einer Gesamtdeutung der Ilias, in der Analyse und Interpetation gleichermaßen zu ihrem Recht kommen sollen. Die folgenden Beiträge gelten speziellen Fragen und reichen von einer „Theologie” der Ilias bis hin zur vieldiskutierten Frage, ob die Aithiopis unsere Ilias beeinflusst hat. Alle Beiträge sind von der Überzeugung bestimmt, dass es für die Philologie als Wissenschaft selbstverständlich sein sollte, zwischen der Beschreibung eines Befundes und dessen Deutung klar zu scheiden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961911
ISBN:: 9783598777011
ISBN:: 9783110961911
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Pervertere: Ästhetik der Verkehrung

Literatur und Kultur neronischer Zeit und ihre Rezeption

Luigi Castagna, Gregor Vogt-Spira, Giovanna Biffino Galimberti, Bettina Rommel, Bernard Andreae, Maria Assunta, Franco Bellandi, Klaus Bergdolt, Giuliana Crevatin, Alessandro Galimberti, Eckard Lefèvre, Giancarlo Mazzoli, Claudia Perassi, Ilara Ramelli, Simona Ricci, Massimo Rivoltelle, Marta Sordi, Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp, Silvia Stucchi

Volume 151 in this series

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Die kurze Zeit des neronischen Prinzipates ist, nicht zuletzt aus der Sicht späterer Rezeption, eine der herausragenden Phasen römischer Literatur und Kultur. Gleichwohl verfolgen die einzelnen altertumswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen dabei ganz unterschiedliche Problemstellungen. Der vorliegende Band, der die Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären Symposions vom 3.-6. Mai 2001 in der Vila Vigoni (Menaggio) versammelt, sucht erstmals übergreifend nach einer kulturellen Klammer. Den Focus bildet dabei die auffallend häufige Verfahrensweise einer "Verkehrung". Für die unterschiedlichen Bereiche, von der neronischen Literatur bis zu archäologischen Zeugnissen, wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit mit der Struktur der "Verkehrung" ein übergreifendes Leitkonzept der Zeit erfaßt ist. Dabei zeigt sich, daß viele Einzelphänomene unter diesem Paradigma in ganz neuer Weise verständlich werden.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952896
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77700-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095289-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2000

Patrii sermonis egestas

Einstellungen lateinischer Autoren zu ihrer Muttersprache. Ein Beitrag zum Sprachbewußtsein in der römischen Antike

Thorsten Fögen

Volume 150 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956450
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77699-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095645-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book Print Only 2001

Die lateinische Poetik des Marco Girolamo Vida und ihre Rezeption bei Julius Caesar Scaliger

Susanne Rolfes

Volume 149 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598776984
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 2001

Nunc Phalaris doctum protulit ecce caput

Antike Phalarislegende und Nachleben der Phalarisbriefe

Vinko Hinz

Volume 148 in this series

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Nunc Phalaris doctum protulit ecce caput: Antike Phalarislegende und Nachleben der Phalarisbriefe - Jörg Rüpke

ISBN:: 9783598776977
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie

Rainer Kerkhof

Volume 147 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961683
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77696-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096168-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Die Bekehrung des Synesios von Kyrene

Politik und Philosophie, Hof und Provinz als Handlungsräume eines Aristokraten bis zu seiner Wahl zum Metropoliten von Ptolemais

Tassilo Schmitt

Volume 146 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961690
ISBN:: 9783598776953
ISBN:: 9783110961690
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Plotins Schrift "Über den Geist, die Ideen und das Seiende"

Enneade V 9 [5] ; Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Matthias Vorwerk

Volume 145 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957860
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77694-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095786-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 2000

Exemplarisches Erzählen bei Ammianus Marcellinus

Episode, Exemplum, Anekdote

Frank Wittchow

Volume 144 in this series

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Die Abhandlung trägt einer neueren Tendenz in der Literaturwissenschaft Rechnung, Untersuchungen von Stil und dramatischem Aufbau mit den Ergebnissen historischer Forschung zu verknüpfen. Im Sinne des New Historicism wird deshalb auch danach gefragt, welche zeitgenössischen Diskurse in den Res Gestae verhandelt werden. Um sowohl das Zeittypische, als auch das Besondere der Res Gestae herauszuarbeiten, werden die Stile und Darstellungsabsichten des Tacitus und des Ammian deutlich voneinander abgegrenzt und ein Vergleich mit dem Zeitgenossen Aurelius Victor gezogen. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse der Arbeit für die Frage nach dem intendierten Publikum der Res Gestae relevant gemacht.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961812
ISBN:: 9783598776939
ISBN:: 9783110961812
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Longin, Philologe und Philosoph

Eine Interpretation der erhaltenen Zeugnisse

Irmgard Männlein-Robert

Volume 143 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110955514
ISBN:: 9783598776922
ISBN:: 9783110955514
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2001

Untersuchungen zur Buchgestaltung Martials

Johannes Scherf

Volume 142 in this series

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Zahlreiche Studien haben sich in diesem Jahrhundert mit der Frage beschäftigt, nach welchen Maßgaben und Prinzipien die Gedichtbücher der augusteischen Dichter gestaltet wurden. Der Zugang zu ähnlichen Fragestellungen bei Martial ist immer dadurch erschwert worden, daß seine Gedichtbücher wesentlich mehr Stücke sehr unterschiedlicher Thematik umfassen, doch seit einigen Jahrzehnten sind auch hierzu Arbeiten erschienen. Johannes Scherf stellt in der hier vorliegenden Studie die bisherigen Ansätze zusammen und verknüpft sie mit dem Ziel, die Gestaltungsmittel, derer Martial sich bei der Konzeption seiner Bücher bediente, deutlich herauszustellen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961706
ISBN:: 9783110961706
ISBN:: 9783598776915
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 2001

Es hat sich viel ereignet, Gutes wie Böses

Lateinische Geschichtsschreibung der Spät- und Nachantike

Gabriele Thome, Jens Holzhausen, Silke Anzinger, I Deug-Su, Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers, Kaspar Elm, Fritz Felgentreu, Julian Führer, Jan Kalivoda, Barbora Krylová, Angelika Lozar, Václav Marek, Bohumila Mouchová, Felix Mundt, Martin Svatos

Volume 141 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598776908
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Proles vaesana Philippi totius malleus orbis

Die Alexandreis des Walter von Châtillon und ihre Neudeutung von Lucans Pharsalia im Sinne des typologischen Geschichtsverständnisses

Claudia Wiener

Volume 140 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110955248
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77689-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095524-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 2000

Die Metaphysik Theophrasts

Edition, Kommentar, Interpretation

Jörn Henrich

Volume 139 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598776885
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2000

Zur Funktion historischer Beispiele in Ciceros Briefen

Irene Oppermann

Volume 138 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968330
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77687-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096833-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2000

Märchen und Mythos in der Antike?

Versuch einer Standortbestimmung

Georg Heldmann

Volume 137 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110947922
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77686-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094792-2
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: Political Economics, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Ahead of Publication 2000

Domos theiou basileos

Herrschaftsformen und Herrschaftsarchitektur in den Siedlungen der Dark Ages

Gabriele Weiler

Volume 136 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110956443
ISBN:: 9783110956443
ISBN:: 9783598776854
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 1999

Johannes Philoponos. De opificio mundi

Spätantikes Sprachdenken und christliche Exegese

Ludwig Fladerer

Volume 135 in this series

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Johannes Philoponos. De opificio mundi: Spätantikes Sprachdenken und christliche Exegese - Ludwig Fladerer

ISBN:: 9783598776847
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Moribus antiquis res stat Romana

Römische Werte und römische Literatur im 3. und 2. Jh. v. Chr.

Maximilian Braun, Andreas Haltenhoff, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Maurizio Bettini, Barbara Borg, Markus Peglau, Jörg Rüpke, Dietmar Schanbacher, Udo W. Scholz, Markus Sehlmeyer, Martin Spannagel, Gabriele Thome, Peter Witzmann

Volume 134 in this series

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Das bekannte Enniuswort, daß auf „den alten Sitten und Männern die römische Sache ruht”, akzentuiert treffend die große Bedeutung, die der mos maiorum als Inbegriff von Wertvorstellungen, Leitbildern und Reglements, welche als verpflichtendes Erbe der Vorväter aufgefaßt wurde, in der römischen Gesellschaft besaß. Neben Aufsätzen zu den verschiedenen literarischen Kommunikationsformen über den mos maiorum wird auch die Repräsentation römischer Wertvorstellungen in den archäologischen Zeugnissen berücksichtigt. Inhalt: I. Werte und literarische Kommunikation, A. Allgemeines, B. Zu Gattungen, Autoren und Werken, II. Werte und visuelle Kommunikation, III. Zu Begriff und Geschichte des mos maiorum.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956702
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77683-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095670-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: K. G. Saur

Book 1999

Klassische Vorbilder mittelalterlicher Trojaepen

Thomas Gärtner

Volume 133 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952506
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77682-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095250-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 1999

Kleine Schriften zur antiken Literatur und Geistesgeschichte

Carl Werner Müller

Volume 132 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598776816
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Die Opferung der Iphigenia in Aulis

Die Rezeption des Mythos in antiken und modernen Dramen

Susanne Aretz

Volume 131 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960327
ISBN:: 9783110960327
ISBN:: 9783598776809
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Claudians praefationes

Bedingungen, Beschreibungen und Wirkungen einer poetischen Kleinform

Fritz Felgentreu

Volume 130 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961249
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77679-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096124-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Laurentius Bonincontrius Miniatensis. De rebus naturalibus et divinis

Zwei Lehrgedichte an Lorenzo de' Medici und Ferdinand von Aragonien

Stephan Heilen

Volume 129 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956429
ISBN:: 9783110956429
ISBN:: 9783598776786
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Ovids Amores

Gedichtfolge und Handlungsablauf

Barbara Weinlich

Volume 128 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956436
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77677-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095643-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 2000

Der Chor in der Alten Komödie

Ritual und Performativität unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusen und der Phalloslieder fr. 851 PMG

Anton Bierl

Volume 126 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956719
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77675-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095671-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Xenophons Symposion

Ein Kommentar

Bernhard Huss

Volume 125 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961263
ISBN:: 9783598776748
ISBN:: 9783110961263
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Dianoemata

Kleine Schriften zu Platon und zum Platonismus

Matthias Baltes, Marie-Luise Lakmann, Annette Hüffmeier, Matthias Vorwerk

Volume 123 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110967883
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77672-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096788-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Geschichte und Theorie der Gattung Paian

Eine kritische Untersuchung mit einem Ausblick auf Behandlung und Auffassung der lyrischen Gattungen bei den alexandrinischen Philologen

Stephan Schröder

Volume 121 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944488
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77670-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094448-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Baptized for Our Sakes

A Leather Trisagion from Egypt (P. Mich. 799)

David G. Martinez

Volume 120 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944495
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77669-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094449-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Martianus Capella - De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

Darstellung der Sieben Freien Künste und ihrer Beziehungen zueinander

Sabine Grebe

Volume 119 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110944501
ISBN:: 9783598776687
ISBN:: 9783110944501
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Aisthesis vor Platon

Eine semantisch-systematische Untersuchung zum Problem der Wahrnehmung

Thomas Schirren

Volume 117 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110962246
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77666-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096224-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Studien zum Nerobild in der lateinischen Dichtung der Antike

Christoph Schubert

Volume 116 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934519
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77665-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093451-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Euripides Satyrographos

Ein Kommentar zu den Euripideischen Satyrspielfragmenten

Nikolaus Pechstein

Volume 115 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934526
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77664-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093452-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Plotin, Enneaden VI 4-5 [22-23]

Ein Kommentar

Christian Tornau

Volume 113 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934540
ISBN:: 9783598776625
ISBN:: 9783110934540
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Die Atomlehre Demokrits und Platons Timaios

Eine vergleichende Untersuchung

Sousanna Maria Nikolaou

Volume 112 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934557
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77661-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093455-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die antiken Traktate über das Drama

Mit einer Sammlung der Fragmente

Andreas Bagordo

Volume 111 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934564
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77660-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093456-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Untersuchungen zum Sophokleischen Philoktet

Das auslösende Ereignis in der Stückgestaltung

Tamara Visser

Volume 110 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934571
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77659-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093457-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Psyche - Seele - anima

Festschrift für Karin Alt

Jens Holzhausen, Barbara Aland, Peter-Andre Alt, Margarethe Billerbeck, Alexander Demandt, Albrecht Dihle, Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers, Hartmut Erbse, Martin Hose, Herbert Kessler, Tilmann Krischer, Bernhard Kytzler, Wolfgang Maaz, Wulf Raeck, R. Dieter Reinsch, Peter Riemer, Renate Schlesier, Hans Schwabl, Bernd Seidensticker, Andrew Smith, Gabriele Thome, Hans Georg Thümmel, Ursula Treu, Fritz Wagner, Ulrich Wickert, Jürgen Wiesner, Annemarie Wohlleben, Joachim Wohlleben, Dietmar Wyrwa, Clemens Zintzen

Volume 109 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934588
ISBN:: 9783598776588
ISBN:: 9783110934588
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1998

Fleissige Thrakerinnen und wehrhafte Skythen

Nichtgriechen im klassischen Athen und ihre archäologische Hinterlassenschaft

Balbina Bäbler

Volume 108 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934632
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77657-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093463-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1998

Platons Menexenos

Einleitung, Text und Kommentar

Stavros Tsitsiridis

Volume 107 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934649
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77656-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093464-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Die Göttergestalten in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae

Polarität und Koinzidenz als anthropozentrische Dialektik mythologisch formulierter Weltvergewisserung

Thomas Kellner

Volume 106 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934656
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77655-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093465-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1997

Plutarch's Pelopidas

A Historical and Philological Commentary

Aristoula Georgiadou

Volume 105 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961171
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77654-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096117-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1997

Das Recht im Denken der Sophistik

Klaus F. Hoffmann

Volume 104 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961188
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77653-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096118-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
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Book 1997

Der Historiker C. Licinius Macer

Einleitung, Fragmente, Kommentar

Siri Walt

Volume 103 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961195
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77652-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096119-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1997

Poiesis poieseos

Alexandrinische Dichtung kata lepton in strukturaler und humanethologischer Deutung. Kall. fr. 254 - 268 C SH, Theokr. 1, 32 - 54, Theokr. 7, Theokr. 11, Theokr. '25

Mark Andreas Seiler

Volume 102 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110951158
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77651-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095115-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1998

Poetologische Bildersprache in der frühgriechischen Dichtung

René Nünlist

Volume 101 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968248
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77650-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096824-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Philoktet

Beiträge zur Wiedergewinnung einer Tragödie des Euripides aus der Geschichte ihrer Rezeption

Carl Werner Müller

Volume 100 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968255
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77649-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096825-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1998

Athens Weg in die Niederlage

Die letzten Jahre des Peloponnesischen Kriegs

Bruno Bleckmann

Volume 99 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968392
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77648-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096839-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1997

Angelo Poliziano

Dichter, Redner, Stratege. Eine Analyse der "Fabula di Orpheo" und ausgewählter lateinischer Werke des Florentiner Humanisten

Tobias Leuker

Volume 98 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968408
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77647-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096840-8
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Die Allseele in Platons Timaios

Mischa von Perger

Volume 96 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968422
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77645-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096842-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1997

Dionisio di Alicarnasso, Epistula a Pompeo Gemino

Introduzione e commento

Sotera Fornaro

Volume 95 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968439
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77644-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096843-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Socratis quae feruntur epistolae

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Josef-Friedrich Borkowski

Volume 94 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968446
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77643-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096844-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Sklaven, Köche und Hetären

Das Dienstpersonal bei Menander. Stellung, Rolle, Komik und Sprache

Martha Krieter-Spiro

Volume 93 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968453
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77642-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096845-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 1998

Style and Tradition. Studies in Honor of Wendell Clausen

Peter E. Knox, Clive Foss

Volume 92 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598776410
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Literarische Zeugnisse kaiserlicher Bautätigkeit

Eine Studie zu Baumaßnahmen in Städten des Römischen Reiches während des Prinzipats

Marietta Horster

Volume 91 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968477
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77640-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096847-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

LENAIKA

Festschrift für Carl Werner Müller zum 65. Geburtstag am 28. Januar 1996

Christian Mueller-Goldingen, Kurt Sier, Heike Becker

Volume 89 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957013
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77638-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095701-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

The City of Dionysos

A Study of Euripides' Bakchai

Valdis Leinieks

Volume 88 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953053
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77637-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095305-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece

Iconography and the Literary Arts

Eva C. Keuls

Volume 87 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953060
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77636-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095306-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1997

Die Rede der Diotima

Untersuchungen zum platonischen Symposion

Kurt Sier

Volume 86 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953077
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77635-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095307-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Streit unter Freunden

Ideal und Realität in der Freundschaftslehre der Antike

Alfons Fürst

Volume 85 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954258
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77634-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095425-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Leonardo Brunis Rede auf Nanni Strozzi

Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar

Susanne Daub

Volume 84 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954265
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77633-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095426-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Ars latet arte sua

Untersuchungen zur Poetologie in den Metamorphosen Ovids

Lothar Spahlinger

Volume 83 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954272
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77632-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095427-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Myrionymi

Les épiclèses grecques et latines d'Isis, de Sarapis et d'Anubis

Laurent Bricault

Volume 82 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960556
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77631-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096055-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Die Entstehung von Ordnung

Zur Bestimmung von Sein, Erkennen und Handeln in der späteren Philosophie Platons

Michael Hoffmann

Volume 81 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960563
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77630-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096056-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Reflexe früher und zeitgenössischer Lyrik in der alten attischen Komödie

Christoph Kugelmeier

Volume 80 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954241
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77629-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095424-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire

The Evidence of Italian Honorary Inscriptions

Elizabeth Forbis

Volume 79 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954449
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77628-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095444-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Die Andersheit bei Plotin

Evangelia Varessis

Volume 78 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954456
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77627-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095445-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Dike Phonou

The Right of Prosecution and Attic Homicide Procedure

Alexander Tulin

Volume 76 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958034
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77625-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095803-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Das Spiel im Spiel

Studien zum plautinischen Agon in 'Trinummus' und 'Rudens'

Peter Riemer

Volume 75 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958041
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77624-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095804-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
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Book 1996

Ovids Mehrfacherklärungen in der Tradition aitiologischen Dichtens

Johanna Loehr

Volume 74 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958058
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77623-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095805-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Der Stil ist der Mensch

Redner und Reden im römischen Epos

Martin Helzle

Volume 73 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958065
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77622-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095806-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Studies in the Text of Seneca's "Naturales Quaestiones"

Harry M. Hine

Volume 72 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958072
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77621-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095807-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Das klassizistische Manifest des Dionys von Halikarnass

Die Praefatio zu De oratoribus veteribus. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Thomas Hidber

Volume 70 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110958096
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77619-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095809-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Apuleius: Metamorphosen literarischer Vorlagen

Untersuchung dreier Episoden des Romans unter Berücksichtigung der Philosophie und Theologie des Apuleius

Hans Münstermann

Volume 69 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110951288
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77618-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095128-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Techne und Paideia bei Xenophon und Isokrates

Hartmut Wilms

Volume 68 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952254
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77617-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095225-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Athena's Epithets

Their Structural Significance in Plays of Aristophanes

Carl A. Anderson

Volume 67 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952261
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77616-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095226-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Cristoforo Landinos De vera nobilitate

Ein Beitrag zur Nobilitas-Debatte im Quattrocento

Tilmann R. Jorde

Volume 66 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952278
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77615-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095227-8
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Die Rede des Demosthenes für die Freiheit der Rhodier

(or. 15)

Jan Radicke

Volume 65 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957211
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77614-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095721-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Literaturtheorie bei Lukian

Untersuchungen zum Dialog Lexiphanes

Michael Weissenberger

Volume 64 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957228
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77613-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095722-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Urnula Faberrime Cavata

Observations on a Vessel used in the Cult of Isis

Elfriede Regina Knauer

Volume 63 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957235
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77612-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095723-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit

Eine Studie zu den systematischen Grundlagen der Enneaden

Christoph Horn

Volume 62 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957242
ISBN:: 9783110957242
ISBN:: 9783598776113
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Liebende Hirten

Theokrits Bukolik und die alexandrinische Poesie

Karl-Heinz Stanzel

Volume 60 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950359
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77609-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095035-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Senecas Trostschrift an Polybius. Dialog 11

Ein Kommentar

Thomas Kurth

Volume 59 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950366
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77608-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095036-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1999

Teil 2 Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 74-218

Michael Hillgruber

Part of the multi-volume work Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero

Volume 58 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950373
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77607-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095037-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Teil 1 Einleitung und Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 1-73

Michael Hillgruber

Part of the multi-volume work Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero

Volume 57 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950380
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77606-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095038-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Untersuchungen zu Nikolaus von Kues De theologicis complementis

Diana Bormann-Kranz

Volume 56 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957112
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77605-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095711-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Untersuchungen zu Giannozzo Manetti, De dignitate et excellentia hominis

Ein Renaissance-Humanist und sein Menschenbild

Oliver Glaap

Volume 55 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957129
ISBN:: 9783110957129
ISBN:: 9783598776045
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Non verba sed vim

Kritisch-exegetische Untersuchungen zu den Fragmenten archaischer römischer Tragiker

Klaus Lennartz

Volume 54 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110957136
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77603-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095713-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Die dramatische Technik des Aischylos

Barbara Court

Volume 53 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959307
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77602-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095930-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1996

Seele und Unsterblichkeit

Untersuchungen zur Vorsokratik bis Empedokles

Ioannis G. Kalogerakos

Volume 52 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959314
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77601-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095931-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Die Sprüche der sieben Weisen

Zwei byzantinische Sammlungen. Einleitung, Text, Testimonien und Kommentar

Maria Tziatzi-Papagianni

Volume 51 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959321
ISBN:: 9783110959321
ISBN:: 9783598776007
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Taufe und Versuchung Jesu in den Evangeliorum libri quattuor des Bibeldichters Juvencus (1, 346–408)

Rudolf Fichtner

Volume 50 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961225
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77499-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096122-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Die Äußerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung außerhalb der Poetik

Despina Moraitou

Volume 49 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961232
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77498-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096123-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Subjekt und Unsterblichkeit bei Pietro Pomponazzi

Jürgen Wonde

Volume 48 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936902
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77497-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093690-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Der Hylas des Dracontius

Romulea 2

Brigitte Weber

Volume 47 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110956931
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77496-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095693-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Vergewaltigung in der Antike

Georg Doblhofer

Volume 46 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932119
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77495-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093211-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Erneuerung der Vergangenheit

Die Historiker im Imperium Romanum von Florus bis Cassius Dio

Martin Hose

Volume 45 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932126
ISBN:: 9783598774942
ISBN:: 9783110932126
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Studien zur Theologie im ersten Buch der Saturnalien des Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Ekkehart Syska

Volume 44 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932133
ISBN:: 9783598774935
ISBN:: 9783110932133
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Zur arabischen Übersetzung der Menandersentenzen

Rudolf Führer

Volume 43 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932140
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77492-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093214-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1995

Untersuchungen zu Xenophons Kyrupädie

Christian Mueller-Goldingen

Volume 42 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932157
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77491-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093215-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Untersuchungen zu Cristoforo Landino, De anima

Ute Rüsch

Volume 41 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932164
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77490-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093216-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Interpretationen zum Bibeldichter Iuvencus

Gethsemane, Festnahme Jesu und Kaiphasprozess (4, 478–565)

Manfred Flieger

Volume 40 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932171
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77489-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093217-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Cicero als Historiker

Martin Fleck

Volume 39 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110933055
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77488-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093305-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Theophrast De odoribus

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle

Volume 37 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950465
ISBN:: 9783598774867
ISBN:: 9783110950465
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Chor und tragische Handlung im "Agamemnon" des Aischylos

Rainer Thiel

Volume 35 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950489
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77484-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095048-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Sallust über die römische Weltherrschaft

Ein Geschichtsmodell im Catilina und seine Tradition in der hellenistischen Historiographie

Konrad Heldmann

Volume 34 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950496
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77483-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095049-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Bandusia

Quelle und Brunnen in der lateinischen, italienischen, französischen und deutschen Dichtung der Renaissance

Jürgen Blänsdorf, Dieter Janik, Eckart Schäfer

Volume 32 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950519
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77481-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095051-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Roman Prayer Language

Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil

Frances V. Hickson

Volume 30 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110979695
ISBN:: 9783598774799
ISBN:: 9783110979695
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Galens Kommentar zu Platons Timaios

Carlos J. Larrain

Volume 29 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110979701
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77478-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097970-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Definition und Schilderung in Theophrasts Charakteren

Markus Stein

Volume 28 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110979718
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77477-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097971-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Print Only 1992

Ungeschehenes Geschehen

Beinahe-Episoden im griechischen und römischen Epos von Homer bis zur Spätantike

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

Volume 27 in this series

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ISBN:: 9783598774768
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Die Beziehungen der Kaiser Trajan und Hadrian zu den litterati

Sylvia Fein

Volume 26 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950526
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77475-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095052-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1994

Three Studies in Athenian Dramaturgy

Scott Scullion

Volume 25 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950533
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77474-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095053-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Ciceros Rede Pro Rabirio Postumo

Einleitung und Kommentar

Claudia Klodt

Volume 24 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950540
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77473-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095054-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Die philosophische Begründung der Kunst bei Ficino

Ute Oehlig

Volume 23 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950557
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77472-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095055-7
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture and Design, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Prinzipienfindung bei Aristoteles

Methoden und erkenntnistheoretische Grundlagen

Christian Pietsch

Volume 22 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950564
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77471-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095056-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1993

Andromedatragödien

Sophokles - Euripides - Livius - Andronikus Ennius - Accius. Text, Einleitung und Kommentar

Rainer Klimek-Winter

Volume 21 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950571
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77470-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095057-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1991

Teil 2

Part of the multi-volume work Studien zum Chor bei Euripides

Volume 20 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950588
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77469-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095058-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

Ricerche sulla cronologia dei filosofi ellenistici

Tiziano Dorandi

Volume 19 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950595
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77468-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095059-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hellenism
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1991

Gespräch und Handlung in der Thebais des Statius

Irene Frings

Volume 18 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110951769
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77467-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095176-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Hymenaios und Epithalamion

Das Hochzeitslied in der frühgriechischen Lyrik

Eleni Contiades-Tsitsoni

Volume 16 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110967708
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77465-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096770-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Der Götterstreit in der Ilias

Melsene Schäfer

Volume 15 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975314
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77464-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097531-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1992

Die Institutio Traiani

Ein pseudo-plutarchischer Text im Mittelalter. Text – Kommentar – Zeitgenössischer Hintergrund

Hans Kloft, Maximilian Kerner

Volume 14 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934663
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77463-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093466-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1991

Die singulären Iterata der Ilias

Norbert Blössner

Volume 13 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938197
ISBN:: 9783110938197
ISBN:: 9783598774621
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1991

Albins Prolog und die Dialogtheorie des Platonismus

Olaf Nüsser

Volume 12 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110938203
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77461-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093820-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1991

Theurgie und Philosophie in Jamblichs De mysteriis

Beate Nasemann

Volume 11 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966398
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77460-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096639-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Teil 1

Part of the multi-volume work Studien zum Chor bei Euripides

Volume 10 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110954913
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77459-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095491-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Plutarchs Schrift De Pythiae oraculis

Text, Einleitung und Kommentar

Stephan Schröder

Volume 8 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110961980
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77457-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096198-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Das Bild des Kaisers Tiberius bei Tacitus, Sueton und Cassius Dio

Manfred Baar

Volume 7 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948004
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77456-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094800-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Die Farbe Purpur im frühen Griechentum

Beobachtet in der Literatur und in der bildenden Kunst

Heinke Stulz

Volume 6 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948011
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77455-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094801-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Zeitgeschichte in Ovids Metamorphosen

Mythologische Dichtung unter politischem Anspruch

Ulrich Schmitzer

Volume 4 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948035
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77453-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094803-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Spätantike Dichtungstheorien

Untersuchungen zu Proklos, Herakleitos und Plutarch

Wolfgang Bernard

Volume 3 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948042
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77452-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094804-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

De exhortatione castitatis

Ermahnung zur Keuschheit

Hans-Veit Friedrich, Tertullian

Volume 2 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948059
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77451-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094805-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book 1990

Studies in Aeschylus

Martin L. West

Volume 1 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948066
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77450-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094806-6
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

Book Ahead of Publication 2025

Gerolamo, ›Ad Laetam de institutione filiae (epist. 107)‹

Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento

Francesco Lubian

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The last two decades have seen a growing interest in Jerome’s epistolary, with the publication of several commentaries on single letters; however, no full-scale study has so far been devoted to Epistle 107, Ad Laetam de institutione filiae. This didactic and parenetic letter, addressed to the Roman noblewoman Laeta around 401-402 AD, is indeed among the most relevant pieces of Jerome’s letter collection, and while it has aroused the interest of scholars interested in the problems of Late Antique pedagogy and female virginity, it has so far received limited attention on a philological and literary level.

Aiming to fill this gap, the present volume provides an introduction that addresses the main issues related to the letter (addressee, dating, typology, use of classical and biblical sources, manuscript tradition and reception), the critically revised Latin text, a new Italian translation, and a full-scale lemmatic commentary.

Il volume costituisce il primo studio monografico dedicato all’Epistola 107 di Gerolamo, Ad Laetam de institutione filiae; contiene un’introduzione che affronta le principali questioni relative alla lettera (destinataria, datazione, struttura, uso delle fonti classiche e bibliche, tradizione manoscritta e fortuna), il testo latino riveduto, una traduzione e un commento che ne indaga gli aspetti filologici, stilistico-letterari e contenutistici.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111481944
ISBN:: 9783111481944
ISBN:: 9783111474731
ISBN:: 9783111483443
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Early Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter