Godofredi Hermanni Opuscula

Volume 1 (1827) of Hermann's eight-volume Opuscula, which collects the shorter works of this central figure of classical philology.

Gottfried Hermann (Author)

9781108016933, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

382 pages
21.9 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.49 kg

Gottfried Hermann's Opuscula (1827–1877) collects in eight volumes the shorter writings of this central figure of nineteenth-century classical philology. Best known for his work on Greek metrics and his editions of Aeschylus, Euripides and others, Hermann (1772–1848) drew on Kantian phenomenology as well as his own formidable understanding of ancient grammars to advance a compelling program of classical scholarship that took language itself as the primary witness to the distant past. Hermann's grammar-based scholarship drew criticism, but established him as foundational to modern philology. As Sihler wrote in 1933, 'He accepted nothing on mere authority, but investigated the causes and roots of every matter.' Volume 1 (1827) contains essays on Greek literature, including a fragment from Sophocles' Clytemnestra, as well as occasional works, such as a poem dedicated to his university, Leipzig. This diverse collection provides fuller insight into the mind of this highly influential scholar.

Praefatio
1. De fundamento iuris puniendi
2. De poeseos generibus
3. De dramate comicosatyrico
4. De fragmento Clytaemnestrae Sophoclis in duobus codd. reperto
5. Commentatio de verbis, quibus Graeci incessum equorum indicant, ad Xenophontem de re equestri cap. VII
6. De differentia prosae et poeticae orationis disputatio. Pars I
7. De differentia prosae et poeticae orationis disputatio. Pars II
8. Observationes de Graecae linguae dialectis
9. Dissertatio de ellipsi et pleonasmo in Graeca lingua
10. De dialecto Pindari observationes
11. De praeceptis quibusdam Atticistarum dissertatio
12. De cantico in Romanorum fabulis scenicis dissertatio
13. Dissertatio de pronomine ?????
14. Carmen saeculare Academiae Lipsiensis
15. Carmen in honores semisaeculares Georgii Guilielmi Comitis ab Hopffgarten
16. Alexandro Russorum Imperatori liberata europa reduci
17. In reditu Regis Friderici Augusti
Index.

Subject Areas: Language: history & general works [CBX]