Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and instruction, and the personal and the general, and are addressed to various of his learned friends and contemporaries. They are a treasure trove for the history of ideas.

This is the first complete German-language edition of the famous 24 books of the Epistolae familiares; they have been translated from the Latin by Prof. Berthe Widmer, an acknowledged authority on Petrarch. The translation...

Pacuvius is one of the most important Republican tragedians. The commentary compiles and explains the roughly 300 fragments of his work which have been preserved as quotations by ancient authors. It establishes a new basis for the philological, literary as well as cultural historical study of Pacuvius, now that D'Anna's commentary edition (Rome 1967) has been superseded by recent research.

Petra Schierl has revised the text following the standard editions and arranged the fragments in a new sequence under the titles of the respective tragedies. The fragments, including the...

Aristoteles benutzt den Katharsisbegriff an verschiedenen Stellen seines Werks: in der Fortpflanzungslehre, der Zoologie, der Physik und Politik. In der Poetik wird der Begriff metaphorisch eingesetzt, um den Wirkungszweck der Tragodie zu bestimmen. Welche Modelle von Katharsis waren Aristoteles gelaufig, in welchem Verhaltnis stehen sie zueinander? Auf der Grundlage eines ausfuhrlichen Vorworts erstellen die Beitrage von Spezialisten eine Ubersicht zu dem jeweiligen Begriffsgebrauch in Biologie, Medizin, Ritus, Kultus, Musiktheorie, Psychologie und Philosophie....

This unique work provides a compendium of Hittite literary texts of all genres with detailed extracts and paraphrases and furnishes a comprehensible non-specialist commentary. In his selection, Volkert Haas takes account both of stylistic features and in particular of the traditions of motives and topoi in Ancient Greece and in the Old Testament.

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...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year.

A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board:

Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
James Diggle (University of Cambridge)
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova)