Anna Novokhatko - Böcker

This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. Though these speeches seem unsophisticated to some, they are in fact of considerable importance. The question of the authenticity of both invectives, especially of the invective against Cicero, considered in the book diachronically, has long troubled scholars, commencing with Quintilian’s quotation from the text as though it were authentic. This dispute continues down to our own time. In all probability, both invectives are a product of the rhetorical schools of Rome, as students at such schools might have been set the task of writing a speech against Cicero imitating Sallust, or of responding to Sallust in the style of Cicero. Thus, we possess a sample of rhetorical school exercises, preserved due to their similarities to the prototypes on which they were modelled. The work covers: the full manuscript tradition of the text and also the history of the changes which arose during its transmission, the history of the printed text and the text itself with an apparatus criticus and also a translation. This work should be of interest to classicists, philologists interested in the history of medieval and renaissance texts, and also to those erudite readers concerned with rhetorical style and the functioning of the rhetorical schools of Rome.

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts ‘gaze’, ‘vision’ and ‘visuality’ are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses.

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the characters, the actors and the spectators. This was due to generic peculiarities including the omnivore mirroring of contemporary (scholarly) ideas, the materiality of costumes and masks, and the embodiment of abstract notions on stage, in short due to the correspondence between body, language and environment. The materiality of words, letters and syllables in ancient grammar and stylistic criticism is related to the embodied criticism found in Greek comedy. How are scholarly discourses embodied? The act of writing is vividly enacted on stage through carving with effort the shape of the letter 'rho' and commenting emotionally on it. The letters of the alphabet are danced by the chorus, the cognitive and communicative power of gestures and body expression providing emotional context. A barking pickle brine from Thasos is perhaps an olfactory somatosensory visual and auditory embodiment of Archilochean poetry, whilst the actor’s foot in dance is a visual and motor embodiment of a metrical foot on stage. Comedy with its actors, costumes, masks, and props is overflowing with such examples. In this book, the author suggests that comedy made a significant contribution to the establishment of scholarly discourses in Classical Greece.

Das Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik repräsentiert eine der Hauptströmungen in der Philosophie der Gegenwart und der angrenzenden Disziplinen. Es versammelt Studien zu Fragen des Verstehens und Interpretierens auf allen Gebieten, einschließlich der Philosophie, Theologie, Rechtswissenschaften und Wissenschaftstheorie wie der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften. Das Jahrbuch nimmt Beiträge zu aktuellen Debatten ebenso auf wie solche zur Ideengeschichte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge international renommierter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zum Thema „Die Zukunft der Hermeneutik", die auf Forschungen beruhen, welche auf dem International Hermeneutics Symposium 2023 und 2024 präsentiert wurden. Ziel ist es, sowohl auf die zukünftige Bedeutung hermeneutischer Forschung als auch auf aktuelle Entwicklungen aufmerksam zu machen, die das Feld nachhaltig prägen werden. Die Hermeneutik lehrte ursprünglich, Texte, Autorinnen und Autoren sowie den Akt des Lesens selbst zu verstehen. Angesichts der Herausforderungen für Erfahrung, Existenz, Sprache, Sinn und Interpretation durch veränderte kulturelle, technologische und ethische Kontexte ist sie heute jedoch zu einer Erneuerung aufgerufen, ohne ihren ursprünglichen Anspruch als offene und aufnahmebereite Praxis des Verstehens preiszugeben. Indem sie die dialogische Struktur von Texten, die Fragilität von Wahrheit, die materiellen Bedingungen von Natur und Kultur sowie die Verantwortung der Interpretation in den Blick nimmt, eröffnet die Hermeneutik neue Perspektiven für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Welt und zielt darauf, die Verbindungen zwischen Wort und Welt, zwischen Erfahrung, Interpretation und Leben zu bewahren. Der Band dokumentiert damit Forschung, die im Umfeld des International Hermeneutics Symposiums entstanden ist. Die Beiträge des Symposiums werden künftig in aktualisierter Form publiziert, nicht mehr als Jahrbuch, sondern als Band einer neuen Reihe: Post-Kantian European Philosophy (P-KEP).

Dieser Sammelband ist eine einzigartige Zusammenstellung wissenschaftlicher Beiträge zum Thema Messen und Verstehen, in dem aufgezeigt wird, wie Begriffe wie Zahl, Messen, Verstehen, Modell, Muster in unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen verwendet werden.

This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines.