Herwig Maehler – författare

Comprises nearly 40 papyrological documents relating to the Greek poets Apollonius Rhodius (Michael Haslam), Aratus (Raffaele Luiselli) and Archilochus (Antonietta Poro).

The ancient Greek commentaries that were preserved on papyrus, i.e. the hypomnemata and marginalia on Greek authors as well as glossaries and lexica, have previously been published in scattered works. This corpus is unique in the academic world in that it presents these texts in collected form. A new installment of approximately 250-300 pages is to appear every two or three years (in total, about 15 installments are planned for the period 2003/2020). The entire work is divided into four main sections: Pars I Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Pars II Commentaria in adespota; Pars III Lexica; Pars IV Concordantiae et Indices.

The ancient Greek commentaries that were preserved on papyrus have previously been published in scattered works. This corpus is unique in the academic world in that it presents these texts in collected form. The entire work is divided into four main sections: Pars I Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Pars II Commentaria in adespota; Pars III Lexica; Pars IV Concordantiae et Indices.

This papyrus (3rd century BC) contains c. 200 incipits (first lines) of Greek epigrams with a numeral at the end of each line that gives the number of lines of the complete epigram; most of them had 4 lines. Of these, only one has been ascribed to a known poet (Asklepiades), but it is by no means clear that all of them were his. Their publication, greatly aided by multispectral photography, is a very welcome addition to Hellenistic poetry.