Die AufsAtze des Bandes sind die A1/4berarbeiteten und zum Teil stark erweiterten Fassungen von VortrAgen, die im Dezember 2001 auf einem Internationalen Kolloquium in Bonn gehalten wurden. Sie behandeln Probleme, die sich mit der Geschichte jeder Weltepoche verbinden, an deren Anfang, Johann Gustav Droysen zufolge, der Name Alexander steht. Michael Zahrnt (KAln) fragt - Ist Samos 'eine Reise wert'? - und wartet mit einer Neuinterpretation des Verbanntendekrets (324 v. Chr.) auf. Gerhard Wirth (Bonn) arbeitet in seinem Beitrag "Der Epitaphios des Hypereides und das Ende einer Illusion" die kritische Potenz und resignative Tendenz des Epitaphs heraus. Vasile Lica (Galatzi) liefert unter dem Titel "Alexander der GroAe in RumAnien" eine knappe Geschichte der Alexanderrezeption in der rumAnischen Literatur, Kunst und Historiographie vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Guido Schepens (Leuven) begibt sich wieder in die hellenistische Zeit, rA1/4ckt "Die Westgriechen in antiker und moderner Universalgeschichte" ins Blickfeld und widmet dem Sosylos-Fragment (FGrHist 1769) kritische Aoeberlegungen. Gerhard Dobesch (Wien) legt in seinem Aufsatz "Caesar und der Hellenismus" dar, wie stark die Geisteswelt der spAten Republik von griechischen Denkformen hellenistischer TAnung geprAgt war. Die LektA1/4re des Bandes macht rasch klar, warum ihm der Obertitel DIORTHOSEIS gegeben wurde. Die darin versammelten AufsAtze 'berichtigen' in der Tat etliche Positionen der Forschung. Sie fA1/4hren die Lebendigkeit der Altertumswissenschaft vor Augen und widerlegen das Vorurteil, in ihr lieAen sich NeuansAtze und -erkenntnisse nicht mehr gewinnen.

It is now 50 years since the death of Adolf Wilhelm, one of the greatest Greek epigraphers of his generation. Although he authored only a few monographs, his huge creative power was reflected overwhelmingly in hundreds of generally smaller articles that are remarkable for their extraordinary and precise density of explanation. Of course, the wealth of material is hardly manageable, and in addition was in part published in sources that are difficult to access. The reprint of these "Kleine Schriften" by Adolf Wilhelm thus constitutes a desideratum of the first order for the present age.

Twenty-nine essays on the widest possible range of Lycian topics from the Second Internatioanl Symposium at Vienna in 1990. Papers range from the Bronze Age to Islam, across language, history, topography, and sculpture. Hellenistic and Roman periods predominate.

One of the greatest epigraphists of this century was Adolf Wilhelm, who died on August 10, 1950. His highly reputed creative power was not reflected in extensive corpus works or large books but rather in hundreds of rather smaller articles, indeed in part very short individual contributions distributed over a wide range of publication locations. Adolf Wilhelm's investigations, readings and commentaries are testimony to a highly significant academic capacity, the like of which has rarely seen since. But precisely this manner of short publication in at times extremely remote places represents a major handicap to any epigraphic, ancient history and antiquity research. In this way, a large amount of material is thoroughly insufficiently known to the intentional academic community.The reprint of these "Short Writings" by Adolf Wilhelm thus represents a major need for the present. Since as early as 1953, for instance, Hermann Bengtson, one of the leading German ancient historians, has been saying (most recently in "Einfuhrung in die Alte Geschichte", Munich, Beck 1969, p. 161): "It would be very welcome from the point of view of research if a publisher could now be found for the scattered works of Ulrich Wilckens, Adolf Wilhelm, Anton von Premerstein and others."\n\nThe former Zentralantiquariat der DDR in Leipzig published five part-volumes in the years 1974 to 1985, but was dissolved without successor following the political changes. These part volumes are:\nSection I: Academic Writings on Greek Epigraphy, parts 1-3\nSection II: Essays and Contributions on Greek Epigraphy, parts 1-2 \nThere still remain roughly 174 articles, whose total of approximately 2000 pages will probably take up 3 volumes. Section II is now continued in the present volume. It should be noted that the published material (epigraphs) and interpretations are neither outdated nor will they ever become outdated.\n\nWith this project, there is an agreement with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Dr. Klaus Hallof of the Inscriptiones Graecae); Dr. Hallof's wife, Dr. Luise Hallof, is currently working on the indexes for all the previous and planned volumes.