Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Vergils Aeneis. - GÜNTHER, H.-C.,

KORTE INHOUD

?Günther?s short monograph, a parergon he tells us arising out of his study of the text of Propertius, is an attempt to sift out some of the solid results of the (now largely unfashionable) analytical study of the stages of composition of the Aeneid, and in so doing to give the reader a glimpse into the ?Werkstatt? of the poet, a glimpse made possible by the fact that at the poet?s death the work lacked its final revision. G.?s starting point, (like that of Thomas Berres, whose ?Die Entstehung der Aeneis (?) is the most recent major study of the topic, is the half-lines, those undoubted signs of incompletion. Like Berres, G. maintains that a large proportion of the poem?s fifty-eight half-lines are indices of later additions by Virgil to the draft of his poem (?.); unlike Berres he maintains that in almost all of these cases the half-line marks the end of the later addition, rather than the end of the original text. (?) G. extends the result of his analysis of half-lines to wider considerations. The claim tha...
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1996Uitgever: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht95 paginasISBN-10: 3525252102ISBN-13: 9783525252109

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