Books in the Texte und Kommentare series

Die letzte erhaltene Staatsrede des Demosthenes aus dem Jahr 341 v. Chr. galt bis 1901 den meisten Gelehrten als unecht oder bestenfalls von einem spateren Redakteur aus demosthenischen Stucken zusammengestellt. Sie spielte daher im Schulunterricht eine geringere Rolle als die spateren demosthenischen Demegorien und wurde entsprechend wenig kommentiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit erfullt daher das Desiderat eines wissenschaftlichen Kommentars, der sprachliche, rhetorische und historische Aspekte untersucht. Auch die Politik am Vorabend des entscheidenden Krieges zwischen Athen und dem Makedonenkonig Philipp II. wird beleuchtet.

The Alexandra is the only extant complete work of the Hellenistic poet and philologist Lycophron (3rd cent. BC). A crucial section of it deals with the fate of Odysseus. The present study undertakes an exact evaluation of Lycophron¿s style in order to investigate possible later emendations and the dating of the text. Lycophron¿s authorship of the Alexandra is not in doubt; the poem was not written in sections, nor was it composed later.The present volume contains the Greek text with a German translation, a detailed commentary and an introduction. The book concludes with two appendices, a bibliography and an index.

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-romischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere kommentierte Ausgaben nur fragmentarisch uberlieferter Texte. Ihrem umfassenden Charakter entsprechend leistet die Reihe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Erschlieung der antiken Literatur.

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-römischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere kommentierte Ausgaben nur fragmentarisch überlieferter Texte. Ihrem umfassenden Charakter entsprechend leistet die Reihe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Erschließung der antiken Literatur.

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

The Homeric Questions of the philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent. Porphyry applies the dictum that "the poet explains himself" to solve questions of interpretation in Homer. This new edition of the Questions on the Iliad eliminates much that was wrongly attributed to Porphyry in the old edition (1880).

A supplement to the "Supplementum Hellenisticum". This work presents papyrus material, along with a succession of suggestions regarding the texts and their meanings. It also provides references and brief analyses of the scholarly discussions that concern them.

The "Carmina XII sapientum" is a corpus of inscriptions from late classical antiquity. This study provides a commentary on the individual elements of the corpus, dealing with all its textual, linguistic, stylistic and content-related aspects.

The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem's relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature, its reception in later literature, its structure, date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission.

This volume presents a commented collection of the fragments and testimonies of Euripedes's play, and provides a basis for approaching the lost "Philoctes".

The anonymous Latin Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre (Historia Apollonii regis Tyri) is a romance of adventure, possibly of Greek origins, with Christian elements in its plot.

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-römischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere kommentierte Ausgaben nur fragmentarisch überlieferter Texte. Ihrem umfassenden Charakter entsprechend leistet die Reihe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Erschließung der antiken Literatur.

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Related Texts

The major part of this text is devoted to a detailed commentary on the ode with special attention given to language, metre, literary conventions and historical background.

Robert Kirstein untersucht drei Gedichte des Corpus Theocriteum, die auf Grund vermuteter Unechtheit in der Forschung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts weit weniger Berucksichtigung gefunden haben als die unumstrittenen Gedichte Theokrits: Idyll 20 (Boukoliskos), 21 (Fischer) und 27 (Liebesgesprach). Losgelost von der Echtheitsproblematik fuhrt er eine sprachliche, gedankliche und kompositionstechnische Untersuchung durch, um dabei auch den jeweiligen Beruhrungspunkten mit anderen Gedichten des Corpus Theocriteum und dem Verhaltnis zur theokriteischen Bukolik' nachzugehen. Im Fall von Idyll 21 gilt das besondere Interesse den realistischen' Elementen in der Darstellung der beiden alten Fischer, die mit den Tendenzen in der hellenistischen Plastik und Bildkunst in Beziehung gesetzt wird. Die Studie setzt sich daruber hinaus kritisch mit den literarasthetischen Werturteilen auseinander, die die Forschung zu den (pseudo-)theokriteischen Gedichten bisher gepragt haben, und zeigt, dass diese teilweise auf methodisch zweifelhaften subjektiven Erwagungen beruhen.

The Satyrica of Petronius, one of the fictional key texts in ancient literature, have been the focus of international research since the 1960s. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that modern commentators have only concentrated on the central part of the work, the famous Cena Trimalchionis. This defect is now remedied with Habermehl's commentary on the especially neglected second half of the work (a second volume, on Sat. 111'141, is scheduled to follow in about two years' time). The commentary provides the reader with all the necessary apparatus for understanding the language, the factual elements and the action of the text. In addition, it includes critical discussion of the novel as an exemplar, and thus renders a contribution of fundamental importance to the interpretation of the Satyrica in their entirety, which are still the subject of much controversy.

Pacuvius (approximately 220-130 BC) is one of the most important representatives of Republican tragedy, of which only fragments remain. This book presents a translation and a commentary on the fragments which considers also the context of their transmission.

The final work of the statesman and philosopher Boethius not only represents both a climax and the end of philosophy from Late Antiquity in Latin, but also combines numerous literary prose forms such as dialogue, satire, speeches of defence and consolation with an extraordinary wealth of lyric and metrical elements to weave a rich literary tapestry which has continually attracted new readers right up to the present day. This is the first modern commentary on the Consolatio Philosophiae, and beside offering a detailed introduction it also provides a detailed philological and philosophical key to the text of the consolation which proceeds from keyword to keyword. There is a full documentation of the manifold references to related texts. This is the second fully revised and extended edition of the commentary, which first appeared in 1978; it is regarded as one of the standard works in Late Latin studies.

The Florida, an anthology of 23 orations that Apuleius of Madauros delivered primarily in Carthage during the 160's A.D., offers a rich store of evidence about epideictic rhetoric, Middle Platonism, and the civic and intellectual life of the North African provincial metropolis. In addition to locating the work in its historical and cultural context, this commentary investigates Apuleius' remarkable language and style. Full attention is given to the rich and complex intertextual relationship of the Florida to earlier Greek and Roman literature, as well as to the work's extensive links to Middle Platonism, the Second Sophistic, and the rest of the Apuleian corpus, particularly his philosophical works.

Lucan's epic on the civil war that ended the Republic was written in the Early Empire, under Nero, a hundred years after the events it narrates. This title focuses on two major campaigns out of Italy, first in Spain, then in Africa.