Godofredi Hermanni Opuscula

Volume 6 (1835) of Hermann's eight-volume Opuscula, which collects the shorter works of this central figure of classical philology.

Gottfried Hermann (Author)

9781108016988, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

528 pages
21.6 x 3 x 14 cm, 0.66 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 6 (1835) includes Hermann's German essays on Pindar, and on English scholarship on Greek poetry, as well as a Greek text with German translation of Aeschylus' Eumenides. This diverse collection provides fuller insight into the mind of this highly influential scholar.

Pars I: 1. Recension von Herrn Dissens Pindar
2. Ueber die Behandlung der griechischen Dichter bei den Engländern, nebst Bemerkungen über Homer und die Fragmente der Sappho
3. Recension von Herrn Göttlings Hesiodus
4. Merkwürdige Art von Logik
Pars II. Aeschylos Eumeniden Griechisch und Deutsch mit Erläuternden Abhandlungen ueber die Aeussere Darstellung und ueber den Inhalt und die Composition dieser Tragodie von K.O. Müller
Index.

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