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Anja Bettenworth, Münster Anne Pinkepank, Göttingen Barbara Kuhn-Chen, Frankfurt Christa Frateantonio, Marburg Charles Lohr, Freiburg Christian Schulze, Bochum Dennis Pausch, Gießen Elsa-Maria Tschäpe, Göttingen Ferdinand Prostmeier, Gießen Jan Bollansée, Leuven Josef Loessl, Cardiff Jessica Ott, Gießen Jessica Wißmann, Iowa City Kai Brodersen, Mannheim Keno Backer, Göttingen Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Mainz Leonie Hagelberg, Göttingen Markus Stein, Düsseldorf Manfred Landfester, Gießen Meike Rühl, Göttingen Mechthild Siede, Trier Mirjam Vischer, Mainz Matthias We…

This modern collective term is used to describe a group of ancient authors and works on unusual or miraculous phenomena (Greek parádoxa or thaumásia, Latin mirabilia) in nature and in the human world, sometimes with mythological echoes: collections of rare or miraculous objects, creatures, events, customs (in geographical and topical order) compiled from historical, ethnographical, geographical, and botanical works, generally mentioning the names of the respective authors. Callimachus [3] of Cyrene is generally regarded as the founder o…

b. ca. 4 BC in Corduba; d. AD 65 in Rome; Roman philosopher, educator and adviser to emperor Nero [1]. Works Philosophical prose works (letters, dialogues, treatise on natural philosophy); tragedies of mythological content (dating uncertain). Manuscripts The manuscript transmission is divided into the following groups: minor dialogues ( Dial. 1–12, see below); De clementia, and De beneficiis; tragedies; Apocolocyntosis; Naturales Quaestiones; and letters. For the minor dialogues, by far the most important manuscript is Codex Ambrosianus. For De clementia and De beneficiis, th…