Wiener Studien Beihefte

This volume edited by Christine Ratkowitsch contains a selection of revised versions of some of the lectures delivered at the 8th International Medieval Latin Congress ("Medialatinitas", Vienna 2017). It aims to capture the intellectual program of the congress, the connection of Medieval Latin to other fields. The first three contributions are each dedicated – in chronological order – to one work of the Latin Middle Ages or Early Humanism and its respective relationship to ancient sources....

This study aims at solving a problem that has been puzzling generations of philologists up to the present day. After nearly a century of emotional debate one of its protagonists could not but declare “the Cirisfrage … still of course wide open” (R.O.A.M. Lyne 1978). The dates suggested for the neoteric epyllion about Scylla’s fatal passion for Minos range from the mid-first century B.C. to the third century A.D., scholars agreeing nowadays almost (!) universally only that this part of the...

The present volume comprises seventeen papers delivered in April 2014 at a conference in Vienna, which was, as far as is known, the first colloquium to be dedicated to Curtius Rufus, while it was not focused upon the more or less reliable historian of Alexander, but on the master of Roman prose, who has been underestimated since the 19th century. Since several papers extended their focus past the aspects of narratology, the rhetoric and psychology of figures to the history of the reception of...

Die Dissertationsschrift leistet durch die ausführliche Analyse einer der späteren, längeren epistulae einen grundlegenden Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Erschließung des senecanischen Briefwerks bzw. des philosophischen Œuvres Senecas insgesamt. Die Arbeit beleuchtet dabei eingehend sprachliche und stilistische Auffälligkeiten und Probleme. Besonders textkritische Fragen, die in großer Anzahl vorhanden sind, werden mithilfe bereits bestehender sowie eigener, neuer Emendationsvorschläge...

Demosthenes, the famous Attic statesman and orator of the fourth century BC, has inspired and influenced authors and politicians from antiquity through Byzantine times to the present day, and the study of his speeches has never ceased. Numerous fragments of papyri and parchments from Ancient Egypt survive, and there are more than two hundred Greek manuscripts containing Demosthenes still available today, dating from the ninth to the 16th century. The contributions in this volume deal with...

Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse gives a general and comprehensive view of our up-to-date knowledge of ancient Greek song and recitation and goes further into the study of the different poetic genres and metrical-rhythmical phenomena. Unlike most of the previous research, it makes a combined use of all the sources available: metrical data, prosodic analysis, ancient works on rhythm and metrics, ancient musical documents and comparison with later musical tradition as well as with other cultures....

Most probably in the late 1470s or early 1480s, the historically interested cardinal and patron Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (1437/39–1503) requested the monk and humanist Hilarion of Verona (c.1444–c.1484) to revise an older Vita Caroli Magni with regard to its content and style, as the cardinal considered the text no longer in keeping with the times. Hilarion accepted the request and penned a new vita of the Carolingian ruler, relying heavily on the classical 9th-century vita of...

This volume is a collection of aspects of discussions on an astonishing abundance of scientific, medical, astrological and mythological subjects which are to be found in the writings of the Florentine philosopher, theologian and doctor Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). The influence his work had on philosophers of the modern age can be explained by the versatility with which he discusses the entire corpus of philosophical literature of antiquity and the Middle Ages that preceded him, and by the...

The thesis of accentual rhythm, presented in this study for the first time, according to which normal word accents are responsible for the inner rhythmical structure of Latin poetry, opens a completely new path in metrical research by examining verses from a musicological point of view. Ancient testimony proves that word accent (according to modern linguistics which are not seriously challenged nowadays it was a stress accent) is fundamental to the Latin language, and that Latin poetry was...

The focus of this volume is the Iter Anasianum of Gaspar Brusch (1518–1557), a hodoeporicon (a poetic relation of a journey) about a short trip to some villages near Linz in May 1552. It is presented here for the first time with a translation and commentary. As there are two different versions of the poem, their relationship has been examined by comparing them to similar poems by the same author, allowing them to be positioned in the poet's biography. The first chapter thus attempts to describe...

The collection of essays is based on the papers held at a symposium that was held to discuss various “practical” aspects of ancient Greek music. The individual contributions address organological questions of tuning and playing techniques, ancient and modern performance contexts and expectations, as well as the notorious topic of musical “ethos”. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to musical examples of passages referred to in the papers, the recording of a public performance that was...