Die Orakelkritik des Kynikers Oenomaus. - HAMMERSTAEDT, J.,

KORTE INHOUD

'Hammerstaedt?s monograph presents the sixteen surviving fragments of Oenomaus? ?goeton phora? (?) and one further unassigned fragment from Julian, together with extensive commentary, four appendixes on particular textual difficulties, bibliography, list of variant readings, concordance of oracles, and indexes of quotations and proper names. There is much here to be welcomed. H. and his publishers have performed a real service in making the fragments of Oenomaus available in an accessible form (?). Good use has been made of editorial work on Eusebius to present the text of the fragments in a more informative way than has been done before. And the notes too contain much useful matter: H. has worked his way very carefully through the wording and thought of the fragments, and in many places succeeds in correcting lax or mistaken interpretations on the part of his predecessors; his discussion of textual problems are full if not always decisive; he is assiduous in his collection of parallel passages; and he has ma...
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1988Uitgever: Athenäum328 paginasISBN-10: 3610090138ISBN-13: 9783610090135

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