Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist Anacreon, they are now regarded instead as imitations of Anacreontic lyricism. This volume presents the latest findings on the language, poetology, tradition, and reception of this lyrical collection.

The a oeEvents after Homera, described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey, and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presented here summarizes the results of the first international conference on Quintus Smyrnaeus.

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic. These texts are considered as individual poems and as collective artifact, an early poetry book. The volume will be of interest to readers of Greek and Latin epigram, students of the Hellenistic period, and all readers interested in the aesthetics of poetry collection and the evolution of the poetry book in antiquity.

Der zweite Band der "Griechischen Stilubungen" umfasst die Verbalsyntax und die Syntax der Nebensatze. Wie im ersten Teil werden die wesentlichen grammatischen Phanomene in deutschen Ubungssatzen mit griechischer Musterubersetzung vorgestellt, wobei zahlreiche Ubersetzungsvarianten helfen, die Flexibilitat und Nuancierungsfahigkeit des Griechischen bewusst zu machen. In den Anmerkungen werden Hinweise zur Grammatik, vor allem aber zur Synonymik gegeben (Wortfelder), zu einigen grammatischen Problemen sind schematisierte Uberblicke beigefugt (Aspektsystem, Satzverknupfungen). Starker als im ersten Band werden Aspekte der Stilistik berucksichtigt; ein Uberblick uber Tropen und Figuren ist als Anhang beigegeben. Jeder Lektion ist eine Vokabelliste vorangestellt, die das Nachschlagen in einem Lexikon erspart und beim Erlernen und Vertiefen des Grundwortschatzes hilft. Das Ziel des Buches ist es, dem Benutzer in Schule und Universitat durch Ubungen im deutsch-griechischen Ubersetzen ein vertieftes Verstandnis fur Struktur und Ausdrucksmoglichkeiten des Altgriechischen zu vermitteln.

With contributions written by leading experts in the field, this volume explores the dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers. The authors examine questions surrounding the identity of the speakers and the addressees. They also discuss the spatial, religious, historical and political contexts of epigram, as well as aspects of intertextuality, poetic variation and the creation of epigrammatic sub-genres. Collectively the volume demonstrates that the dominant view of epigram as a genre that became literary and artistic only in the Hellenistic period has to be revised. Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams did not simply serve the objects they describe but also demonstrate a high degree of aesthetic and literary achievement. This volume breaks new ground in the study of the genre and is important for scholars of classics, archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology.

With contributions written by leading experts in the field, this volume explores the dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers. The authors examine questions surrounding the identity of the speakers and the addressees. They also discuss the spatial, religious, historical and political contexts of epigram, as well as aspects of intertextuality, poetic variation and the creation of epigrammatic sub-genres. Collectively the volume demonstrates that the dominant view of epigram as a genre that became literary and artistic only in the Hellenistic period has to be revised. Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams did not simply serve the objects they describe but also demonstrate a high degree of aesthetic and literary achievement. This volume breaks new ground in the study of the genre and is important for scholars of classics, archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology.

Durch den zuverlassigen Wechsel von Tag und Nacht und die Abfolge der Jahreszeiten ist die Sonne schon immer der machtigste sichtbare Garant der Weltordnung gewesen. Ihre plotzliche Verfinsterung musste daher die Menschen besonders erschuttern und sie mit Furcht und Sorge erfullen, ob die Sonne wiederkehren werde und mit ihr die alte Ordnung. Zahlreiche Zeugnisse aus der Antike belegen den Versuch, dieses bedrohliche Geschehen zu erklaren, zu deuten oder in irgendeiner Weise zu beherrschen. Aus den Quellen etwas uber das Wissen, Denken und Glauben der Menschen zu erfahren, war das Thema eines Heidelberger Symposions aus Anlass der Sonnenfinsternis 1999. In zehn Beitragen werden Beispiele literarischer, mythologischer, theologischer und wissenschaftlicher Rezeption dieses Phanomens in der Antike vorgestellt.