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Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes

Zeitschrift für antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption

Edited by: Sabine Föllinger, Sotera Fornaro, Tobias Reinhardt, Christoph Schubert and Jan R. Stenger

ISSN: 2199-0255

e-ISSN 2199-0263

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Philologus, one of the oldest and most respected periodicals in the field of Classics, is conceived as a forum for discussion among different methodological approaches to the study of ancient texts and their reception. It publishes original scholarly contributions with a strong international focus. Publications languages are: German, English, Italian, French.

The accompanying series Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes, starting in 2015, publishes monographs and collections of papers pertaining to all aspects of the study of ancient literature and its reception, with a special focus on interdisciplinary approaches, combining Classics with Literary and Cultural Studies.

Editor in chief: Christoph Schubert (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

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Book 2023

Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature

Émeline Marquis

Volume 19 in this series

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Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy. The present volume sketches out a broad panorama of ancient fiction in letters. It covers a large period of time up to late Antiquity, with a main focus on letters from the imperial era. Epistolary fiction is examined as a mainly Greek phenomenon (there are few Latin equivalents) that was characteristic of both pagan and Christian literature. The material investigated falls within two categories: fictional letter collections from well-known authors of the Second Sophistic and their successors (Lucian, Alciphron, Philostratus, Aristaenetus); letters attributed to famous historical or legendary characters (pseudonymous letters). Focusing on the specific features of epistolary fiction, the book aims to analyse its forms, its functions as well as its effects. It gathers a series of 11 state-of-the art essays, all tackling the same important issues: the manuscript and printed tradition, the form of epistolary fictions and the universe they build, the arrangement of the letters and their overall structure, the relation between the author and his external readers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110983739
ISBN:: 9783110983739
ISBN:: 9783110996241
ISBN:: 9783110984262
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Prose
Subject:: Diaries, Letters and Journals
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature

Modelling Gender in First-Person Discourse

Lisa Cordes, Therese Fuhrer

Volume 18 in this series

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Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity, the volume starts from the premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically modelled and aesthetically shaped. Focusing on different types of Greek and Latin literature, poetry and prose, from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity, the contributions analyse the use and modelling of gender-specific elements in different types of first-person speech, be it that the speaker is (represented as) the author of a work, be it that they feature as characters in the work, narrating their own story or that of others. In doing so, they do not only offer new insights into the rhetorical strategies and literary techniques used to construct a gendered ‘I’ in ancient literature. They also address the form and function of first-person discourse in classical literature in general, touching on fields of research that have increasingly come into focus in recent years, such as authorship studies, studies concerning the ancient notion(s) of the literary persona, as well as a historical narratology that discusses concepts such as the narrator or the literary character in ancient literary theory and practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795257
ISBN:: 9783110795257
ISBN:: 9783110795301
ISBN:: 9783111536743
ISBN:: 9783110795196
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:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Zitate der ›Aeneis‹ in den Briefen des Hieronymus

Eine digitale Intertextualitätsanalyse zur Untersuchung kultureller Transformationsprozesse

Marie Revellio

Volume 17 in this series

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In his extremely rhetorically adept letters, the Doctor of the Church Jerome addresses a deep inner conflict between Virgil and the Gospels, between Cicero and the apostles. This volume traces these cultural transformation processes using Jerome's strategy of intertextuality. The research interest is divided into a methodological and a content-related part. On the one hand, digital methods of citation analysis are (further) developed and evaluated. Using computer-aided methods, the number of quotations of the Aeneid will be significantly increased by more than a third and at the same time the theoretical concept of quotation will be significantly sharpened. On the other hand, hermeneutic methods are used to create a typology of quotations, which not only reveals the 'limits' of text interpretation, but also draws a more differentiated picture of Jerome's citation technique. The work reveals a linguistic-stylistic hybridisation that enables a modified and deeper insight into the actual, subterranean adaptations of the classical-pagan literary heritage by the early Christian author.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760828
ISBN:: 9783110760828
ISBN:: 9783110761238
ISBN:: 9783110760569
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Early Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Auf der Suche nach Autofiktion in der antiken Literatur

Gregor Bitto, Bardo Maria Gauly

Volume 16 in this series

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In classical texts, use of the first person frequently switches between historic author and fictional stylization. In order to avoid renouncing the author as a category of interpretation or having to return to obsolete biographical interpretation, the polymorphic concept of autofiction lends itself to the differentiated analysis of this phenomenon. The studies in this volume investigate and reflect upon how it can be applied to classical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734928
ISBN:: 9783110734928
ISBN:: 9783110739039
ISBN:: 9783110734980
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 2021

Der andere Blick auf Caesars Kriege

Eine narratologische Analyse der vier Supplemente im ›Corpus Caesarianum‹

Marvin Müller

Volume 15 in this series

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While Caesar's war monographs - the Bellum Gallicum, Books 1-7, and the so-called Bellum civile - have always been heavily researched, the same is not true of the supplementary writings that have survived in the Corpus Caesarianum.

What means of representation do the authors of these texts use in their reports and to what extent do they themselves approach the reader as a narrator? What choices are made with regard to the events narrated? What is told in particular detail or briefly or not at all? How are individual events linked to form a narrative? And finally: How can the intention of the texts and their function in the historical context be reconstructed on the basis of these observations? These and similar questions have so far only been researched in rudimentary form.

With its narratological approach, this monograph makes a contribution to closing the research gap in the study of the non-Caesarian writings in the corpus from a literary studies perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711530
ISBN:: 9783110711530
ISBN:: 9783110711684
ISBN:: 9783110711448
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Hölderlins ›Archipelagus‹

Mythos, Philosophie, Gattungspoetik

Yuzhong Chen

Volume 14 in this series

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This running commentary on Hölderlin’s poem The Archipelago fills a gap in Hölderlin scholarship. The book reads the hymn as a myth and uses Greek literature to identify the sources. It interprets the poem through Hölderlin’s philosophy of history and develops a hybrid form that is adequate to its content. This is the first exhaustive treatment of the poem.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703474
ISBN:: 9783110703474
ISBN:: 9783110703528
ISBN:: 9783110703207
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Gegen / Gewalt / Schreiben

De-Konstruktionen von Geschlechts- und Rollenbildern in der Ovid-Rezeption

Melanie Möller

Volume 13 in this series

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The essays in this volume analyze the reception of Ovid’s works (Metamorphoses and Heroides in particular) in various epochs, focusing on the adaptations of erotic representations and of sexualized violence. As in Ovid’s texts themselves, it is the problematic relationship of violence and language that most affects generic attributions, the search for identity, and role awareness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703221
ISBN:: 9783110703221
ISBN:: 9783110703269
ISBN:: 9783110702965
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Der Tod auf der Bühne

Jenseitsmächte in der antiken Tragödie

Emrys Schlatter

Volume 12 in this series

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This book focuses on the interactions between the realms of the dead and the living in Greek tragedy. It examines how the risks and rewards involved in transgressing these boundaries are shaped by and used to shape drama, and situates the presence and power of underworld gods and the dead in their cultural and religious context. It sheds light on death, (im)mortality, the afterlife, and their diverse associations in the ancient Greek imagination.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612691
ISBN:: 9783110612691
ISBN:: 9783110611045
ISBN:: 9783110611267
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Rufmord in der späten römischen Republik

Charakterbezogene Diffamierungsstrategien in Ciceros Reden und Briefen

Anabelle Thurn

Volume 11 in this series

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In the late Roman Republic, members of the Senate aristocracy fought with each other by permanently discrediting each other’s reputation (fama). Character assassination was based on the culturally specific values and social practices of the Roman elite. By systematically considering their content, Annabelle Thurn examines the functions and origins of such castigations, thereby shedding light on political communication in the late Republic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599886
ISBN:: 9783110599886
ISBN:: 9783110598483
ISBN:: 9783110599879
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Hölderlin und das Theater

Produktion – Rezeption – Transformation

Marco Castellari

Volume 10 in this series

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This book examines Hölderlin’s The Death of Empedocles and his translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus and Antigone, the reception of their productions, and changes in approach to his work in drama and theater through the present. The first comprehensive reconstruction of his legacy, the study switches between general overview and specific analyses of F. Brentano, F. Nietzsche, B. Brecht, H. Müller, P. Weiss, K.M. Grüber, and E. Jelinek.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584714
ISBN:: 9783110584714
ISBN:: 9783110583373
ISBN:: 9783110583328
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Werner Jaeger – Wissenschaft, Bildung, Politik

Colin G. King, Roberto Lo Presti

Volume 9 in this series

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This book contains contributions by several different leading scholars on the foundational work of Werner Jaeger (1888–1961) for the study of the history of ancient philosophy, science, and religion. It also includes a critical reappraisal of Jaeger's role as a public intellectual in the 1930s.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110548983
ISBN:: 9783110548983
ISBN:: 9783110548037
ISBN:: 9783110548105
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Kaiser und Tyrann

Die Kodierung und Umkodierung der Herrscherrepräsentation Neros und Domitians

Lisa Cordes

Volume 8 in this series

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In the literary discussions after their deaths, both Nero and Domitian were portrayed as megalomaniacal tyrants, but during their lifetimes, they were exuberantly praised in panegyrics. The volume examines the disparate images emerging from the coding and recoding of representations of their rule, and analyzes underlying linguistic mechanisms. It thereby furnishes new perspectives on these two mali principes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545524
ISBN:: 9783110545524
ISBN:: 9783110544336
ISBN:: 9783110543186
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Imagines Antiquitatis

Representations, Concepts, Receptions of the Past in Roman Antiquity and the Early Italian Renaissance

Stefano Rocchi, Cecilia Mussini

Volume 7 in this series

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In the last few years a reconsideration of the past of the ancients and of the concepts correlated to it (e.g. the ʻclassicalʼ) has been important to many scholars. The present volume adds to the range of perspectives on the antique by expanding research to include different, hitherto unexplored spheres, whether that be chronological perspectives or disciplinary ones, as well as by opening up the discussion to include textual types that previous studies have treated little or not at all. Fourteen essays on various fields aim at defining the categories in which the past is constructed, thought, valued, functionalized and redrawn. They concentrate on the category of the ʻantiqueʼ and the role it plays in texts and authors, with specific reference to the ʻtopicalizationʼ, conceptualization and renegotiation of the ʻantiqueʼ and the ʻancientsʼ. The textual types analysed belong to the following fields: ancient philosophy and history of ideas, ethnography, historiography and antiquarianism, literature and philology, grammar and Roman law, Renaissance studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110521689
ISBN:: 9783110521689
ISBN:: 9783110521122
ISBN:: 9783110517804
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Bilder von dem Einen Gott

Die Rhetorik des Bildes in monotheistischen Gottesdarstellungen der Spätantike

Nicola Hömke, Gian Franco Chiai, Antonia Jenik

Volume 6 in this series

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The essays in this volume explore the diverse ways that late antique Greek and Roman authors drew upon images to describe the one God. They analyze the rhetoric of language pictures in theological discourses and literary texts from various disciplinary perspectives, as well as the use of images as strategies of persuasion and defense.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110517569
ISBN:: 9783110517569
ISBN:: 9783110516739
ISBN:: 9783110517040
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
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Rhetorik der Verunsicherung

Affekt-Strategien in den platonischen Frühdialogen

Marcel Humar

Volume 5 in this series

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It has often been remarked that the Platonic Socrates seems to be using a particular rhetoric. The aim of this specific rhetoric has been described as irritating or "destabilizing". However, little attention has been given to the techniques and elements of his rhetoric. The work focuses on the early dialogues of Plato, since they provide rich material for Socrates’ irritating rhetoric and depict him using an ample range of different strategies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110498455
ISBN:: 9783110498455
ISBN:: 9783110500011
ISBN:: 9783110497533
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Erinys in Epos, Tragödie und Kult

Fluchbegriff und personale Fluchmacht

Sebastian Zerhoch

Volume 4 in this series

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This book provides a comprehensive and systematic account of erinys in ancient Greek literature and cult. The author shows that the different usages and appearances of erinys, including non-personal and personal, singular and plural, correspond to each other as expressions of an extended concept of the curse. This concept, which played an essential role in religion and society, also underlies the cults of the Semnai theai and Eumenides.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435504
ISBN:: 9783110441598
ISBN:: 9783110435504
ISBN:: 9783110433838
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Cityscaping

Constructing and Modelling Images of the City

Therese Fuhrer, Felix Mundt, Jan Stenger

Volume 3 in this series

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The term ‘cityscaping’ is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media – text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients’ spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400960
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037682-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040096-0
ISBN:: 9783110401141
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
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Book 2015

Irritationen

Rhetorische und poetische Verfahren der Verunsicherung

Ramona Früh, Therese Fuhrer, Marcel Humar, Martin Vöhler

Volume 2 in this series

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Irritation and destabilization can unsettle established opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. The contributions in this volume seek to study this phenomenon further by examining a range of literary and vernacular texts, with particular attention to topics related to rhetoric and literary theory, as well as pedagogical and linguistic issues. Essays investigate topics such as the rhetoric of persuasion and literary poetics of destabilization .

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401004
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037817-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040100-4
ISBN:: 9783110401080
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:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
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Book 2015

Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity

Debates on Classical Education in 19th-century Germany

Bas van Bommel

Volume 1 in this series

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In scholarship, classical (Renaissance) humanism is usually strictly distinguished from 'neo-humanism', which, especially in Germany, flourished at the beginning of the 19^th century. While most classical humanists focused on the practical imitation of Latin stylistic models, 'neohumanism' is commonly believed to have been mainly inspired by typically modern values, such as authenticity and historicity.
Bas van Bommel shows that whereas 'neohumanism' was mainly adhered to at the German universities, at the Gymnasien a much more traditional educational ideal prevailed, which is best described as 'classical humanism.' This ideal involved the prioritisation of the Romans above the Greeks, as well as the belief that imitation of Roman and Greek models brings about man's aesthetic and moral elevation.
Van Bommel makes clear that 19^th century classical humanism dynamically related to modern society. On the one hand, classical humanists explained the value of classical education in typically modern terms. On the other hand, competitors of the classical Gymnasium laid claim to values that were ultimately derived from classical humanism. 19^th century classical humanism should therefore not be seen as a dried-out remnant of a dying past, but as the continuation of a living tradition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365931
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036543-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036593-1
ISBN:: 9783110391404
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Theory and History of Education
Publisher:: De Gruyter