Godofredi Hermanni Opuscula

Volume 2 (1827) of Hermann's eight-volume Opuscula, which collects the shorter works of this central figure of classical philology.

Gottfried Hermann (Author)

9781108016940, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

382 pages
21.6 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 2 (1827) contains essays on topics including Homer, Aeschylus' Glaucus Pontios, the Eumenides, and the Persians, and ancient Greek history and mythology. This diverse collection provides fuller insight into the mind of this highly influential scholar.

1. De argumenti pro antiquitate Orphei Argonauticorum maxime a Koenigsmanno allatis dissertatio
2. De legibus quibusdam subtilioribus sermonis Homerici dissertatio prima
3. De legibus quibusdam subtilioribus sermonis Homerici dissertatio secunda
4. De Aeschyli Glaucis dissertatio
5. De versibus spuriis apud Aeschylum dissertatio
6. De Aeschyli Persis dissertatio
7. De metrorum quorumdam mensura rhythmica dissertatio
8. De choro Eumenidum Aeschyli dissertatio prima
9. De choro Eumenidum Aeschyli dissertatio secunda
10. De mythologia Graecorum antiquissima
11. De historiae Graecae primordiis dissertatio
12. Censura novae editionis Thesauri Stephaniani
13. ????? ????????
14. Epistola ad Fr. Lindemannum
15. De R. Bentleio eiusque editione Terentii dissertatio
16. De Musis fluvialibus Epicharmi et Eumeli
17. De compositione tetralogiarum tragicarum
18. De Aeschyli Danaidibus
Index.

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