Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts
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The Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts gives a clear overview of authors and Major Works of Greek and Latin literature, and their history in written tradition, from Late Antiquity until present: papyri, manuscripts, Scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and comments.
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The Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts gives a clear overview of authors and Major Works of Greek and Latin literature, and their history in written tradition, from Late Antiquity until present: papyri, manuscripts, Scholia, early and contemporary authoritative editions, translations and comments.
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Abbreviations
(1.055 Wörter)
General Abbreviations abr. abridged anon. anonymous Ant. Antike, Antiquity approx. approximately AR, Arab. Arabic Aram. Aramaic Armen. Armenian art. article Assyr. Assyrian b. born betw. between bibliog. bibliography bk., bks. book, books Byz. Byzantine CA Catalan ca.
circa, ‘about’ cent., cents. century, centuries chap., chaps. chapter, chapters cod., codd. codex, codices coll., colls. collection, collections comm. commentary crit. critical d. died Diss. Dissertation DU Dutch eccl. ecclesiastical ed., eds. editor / edited by, editors
ed. princ.
editio princeps edn., edns…
Achilles Tatius of Alexandria
(383 Wörter)
2nd cent. AD; author of a Greek romance novel.
Works Novel in eight books.
Manuscripts Twenty-three manuscripts are known, but only 12 contain the full text; most manuscripts date from the 16th cent. Works
Greek Title
Latin Title
English Title
Dating
Brief Description
1 Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφόντα/Tà katà Leukíppēn kaì Kleitophónta The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon 2nd cent. AD Novel about the separation and reunion of the lovers Leucippe and Clitophon Papyri
Name / Number
Dating
Selection
Content / Notable Features
1 P.Oxy. 3836 2nd cent. AD
Terminus ante quem for the d…
Aelianus, Claudius (Aelian)
(746 Wörter)
b. ca. AD 165/ 170 in Praeneste near Rome; d. ca. AD 225/ 235; Roman ‘Buntschriftsteller’ who wrote in Greek.
Works With
On the Nature of Animals, the excerpts from his
Historical Miscellany, and the
Letters, the majority of Aelian’s works are well known. Additional works are documented only in meagre fragments.
Manuscripts The manuscripts of
On the Nature of Animals can be divided into two classes: one that is older and not interpolated (the main representative being Parisinus suppl. gr. 352), and a second interpolated class. The excerpts from the
Historical Miscellany have come down …
Aelianus Tacticus
(350 Wörter)
2nd cent. AD; Greek military writer.
Works The
Taktiká, preserved under the name of Aelianus, are a textbook addressed to the Emperor Trajan.
Manuscripts The work exists in two recensions; one Arabic translation is based on a text from the 9th/10th cent. Details in: Alphonse Dain, Histoire du texte d’Élien le Tacticien des origines à la fin du moyen âge, Paris 1946.
Editions The
ed. princ. appeared more than 50 years after the first Latin translation.
Translations Since 1487, the reception of the treatise has been determined by numerous Latin translations, which were gen…
Aelius Aristides (Publius Aelius Aristides)
(2.180 Wörter)
b. 27 November AD 147 in Hadriani (Mysia); d. after AD 177; Greek orator; representative of the Second Sophistic.
Works Fifty-three orations (
Lógoi [
Log.]) have been preserved (some in fragments); a metric hymn to Asclepius survives as an inscription. False attributions include: the
Téchnai rhētorikaí, and the
Leptinean Orations (nos. 53 and 54 Dindorf). Fragments of the orations are contained in four papyri; there is also a papyrus with proemia.
Scholia There are scholia by Sopater [1] and Arethas, as well as prolegomena.
Manuscripts Collections of orations, or excerpts, are c…
Aeneas Tacticus
(304 Wörter)
active in the mid 4th cent. BC; earliest Greek military writer.
Works Only one longer fragment of his works on military matters has been preserved.
Manuscripts The transmission is based on Laurentianus 55,4, of which four transcripts from the 16th cent. are extant. Works
Greek Title
Latin Title
English Title
Dating
Brief Description
1 Τακτικὸν ὑπόµνηµα περὶ τοῦ πῶς χρῆ πολιορκουµένους ἀντέχειν/Taktikòn hypómnēma perì toû pôs chrê poliorkouménous antéchein (Πολιορκητικά/Poliorkētiká) De obsidione toleranda commentarius How to Survive under Siege Manuscripts
Name / Number
Dating…
Aeschylus of Athens
(1.758 Wörter)
b. 525/4 BC in the Attic deme of Eleusis; d. 456/5 BC in Gela (Sicily); Greek writer of tragedies and satyr plays.
Works Of the possibly 90 plays, seven tragedies have been preserved. The
Oresteia (458 BC), comprising
Agamemnon,
Choephori and the
Eumenides, is the only extant Greek trilogy.
Papyri The short fragments of Aeschylus’ plays preserved in manuscript form have been joined, in particular, by several papyrus fragments that allow for a rough reconstruction of the plots for the satyr plays:
Theòroì ḕ Isthmiastaí (‘Spectators at the Isthmian Games’), and
Diktyoulkoí (‘Netfishers’…
Aesop
(757 Wörter)
b. in Thrace; d. 564/3 BC in Delphi; Greek fabulist.
Works Preserved are late collections of his fables which only contain a selection of his animal fables, as the ancient evidence shows.
Manuscripts A total of more than 100 manuscripts are known; they can be grouped into three primary recensions.
Translations Numerous partial translations and free adaptations have been published. Works
Greek Title
Latin Title
English Title
Dating
Brief Description
1 Μῦθοι / Mŷthoi Corpus Fabularum Aesopicarum Fables 6th cent. BC Mainly animal fables; the extant coll. dates from the Christian period Pa…
Agatharchides of Cnidus
(330 Wörter)
b. before 200 BC; d. after 145 BC or after 132/1 BC; Greek historian leaning towards social criticism; representative of the so-called tragic or mimetic school of historiography (by means of sophisticated literary techniques).
Works The historical work is known primarily through longer excerpts in Diodorus [18] and Photius [2].
Translations / Commentaries English translation of the FGrH with updated commentary in the online edition of Brill’s New Jacoby (BNJ), 2006ff. Works
Greek Title
Latin Title
English Title
Dating
Brief Description
1 Ἀσιατικά / Asiatiká (10 bks.) Asiatica Asian…
Agathias
(427 Wörter)
b. ca. AD 532 in Myrina (Asia Minor); d. shortly after AD 580; Greek historian and poet.
Works A work on contemporary history, as well as a collection of epigrams has been preserved. Of his collection of erotic mythological poems (
Daphniaká), only the prologue has been transmitted in the
Anthologia Palatina (6,80) Works
Greek Title
Latin Title
English Title
Dating
Brief Description
1 Ἱστορίαι/Historíai (
Hist.), also: Περὶ τῆς Ἰουστινιάνου βασιλείας / Perì tês Ioustiniánou basileías Historiae Histories after AD 579 History of the wars of Iustinianus [1] against the Goths, Pe…