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-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-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.

This work offers a new interpretation and an in-depth analysis of one of the least studied among Juvenal s satires. The introduction examines the structure of the piece and some of its rhetorical features. An overview of the history of the text is followed by a revised critical edition and an Italian translation. The commentary offers a systematic treatment of the linguistic, rhetorical, historical and antiquarian aspects of the text.

A hundred years after Adolf von Harnack's first edition of Porphyry's Contra Christianos (1916) this work presents a new collection of the fragments and testimonia with an introduction, a German translation and notes. It is the first German translation of and commentary on Contra Christianos. All texts are newly arranged. For the first time ever, texts which cannot be securely attributed to Porphyry (dubia) are presented in a separate section.

The book offers an introduction, translation and commentary of the earliest political speech delivered by Demosthenes, the Against Leptines. It studies the speech as a historical document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law, judicial practices and public economy. It sheds light on the institution of nomothesia, on Athenian euergetism and the economy of honour, and on the workings of and debates on fiscal policy.

This study undertakes to provide the reader with a new edition of Euripides' Ion and a commentary that elucidates the play as a self-contained text and a sophisticated and dramaturgically effective construct. It helps the reader understand what the Greek text means on the literal level, and how the characters act in word and deed, how their actions have been arranged by the poet in a way so that they form a coherent and stringent plot.

This is the first full-scale commentary on Euripides' Alexandros, which is one of the best preserved fragmentary tragedies. It yields insight into aspects of Euripidean style, ideology and dramatic technique (e.g. rhetoric, stagecraft and imagery) and addresses textual and philological matters, on the basis of a re-inspection of the papyrus fragments. This book offers a reconstruction of the play and an investigation of issues of characterization, staging, textual transmission and reception, not least because Alexandros has enjoyed a fascinating Nachleben in...