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This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive account of its sources, reception, language, style and structure as well as an analysis of the manuscript sources and the textual tradition. The commentary addresses linguistic as well as historical problems.

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 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.

Juvenal has long been known as the poet of indignation, a view based mainly on his early satires. His later work had been relatively overlooked until recently. The present commentary is meant to be a contribution to the reappraisal of the later part of Juvenal's career, a significant trend in the juvenalian scholarship of the last decade. Among the topics addressed there are the relationship between Juvenal and Martial, his position within the tradition of Roman satire, his relationship with the cultural discourse of Roman moralistic literature, the intertextual links with satire 5 and the vexata quaestio of the literary or authentic nature of Juvenal's work. The author denies a strong break between the early books and the 4th and satire 11 in particular, advocating the idea of a gradual evolution rather than a radical conversion. In the commentary the reader will find a comprehensive analysis of textual problems and stylistic features, in a historically comparative light, with early Juvenal, other satiric poets and Martial as the chief objects of comparison.Realien are also devoted close attention. The volume will thus be a useful tool for scholars and students interested in latin satire and poetry, and also for historians of roman society in the early imperial age.

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.

The Historiae, of which only fragments survive, was probably Sallust¿s most comprehensive work of history. Embracing the eventful period between 78-67 BC, it describes a series of political crises which ultimately lead to the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of Augustus¿ principate. This volume fills a desideratum in Sallustian studies presenting a new, complete edition and the first comprehensive commentary on the fragments.

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.

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.

Zu dem um 370 in Trier verfaßten Gedicht über die Mosel des gallischen Dichters Ausonius erschien die letzte Auflage des Kommentars von Carl Hosius 1926. Seitdemliegtkein vergleichbares Werk in deutscher Sprache vor. Diese Lücke schließt der vorliegende Kommentar. Den lateinischen Text begleitet ein ausführlicher kritischer Apparat, der die Überlieferungssituation und das vielfache Bemühen um ein rechtes Textverständnis dokumentiert. Diedeutsche Prosaübersetzungerhebt nicht den Anspruch einer Nachdichtung, sondern dient allein dem Textverständnis. Im Kommentar werden sprachliche Gestaltung und realer Inhalt in gleicher Weise erläutert.Dazu wurden auch die Beobachtungen früherer Erklärer aufgenommen und, wo nötig, korrigiert. Dabei wurde versucht, die jeweils erste Nennung zu ermitteln. Da der Text als Dokument imperialen römischen Selbstverständnisses verstanden wird, gilt der historischen Situation besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Das reiche Material wird durch umfangreiche Indices erschlossen, wobei besonders der ausführliche Stellenindex denBestand klassisch vorgeformter Formulierungen für die spätlateinische Dichtersprache exemplarisch erschließt. Somit ist der Kommentar für Latinisten und Althistoriker unverzichtbar.

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 "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.

Ariadne's elegiac letter to her faithless Theseus offers the epistolary mise en scène of the heroine's lamentation previously versified by Catullus in his epyllion (carmen 64). The Ovidian text looks retrospectively at its predecessor and is inevitably indebted to it. This volume explores the complex relationshipbetween the Ovidian and theCatullan model and focuses on literary memory, allusive forms, generic boundaries and transgression. Resorting to more recent interpretative approaches and anupdated bibliography, the introduction aims at disclosing the parallel construction of text and character, placing emphasis on the sophisticated dialogic contact with the source-texts (e.g. from elegy, epic, comedy) and its literary effects on the epistle. The text also deals with some metaliterary and authorial instances to which readers of the Heroides are quite familiar. The commentary surveys aspects of Ovidian language and style and discusses major textual problems shedding light on literary sources and strategies of dramatic irony.epistle to its literary models.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.