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Epicharmus (ca. 530-440 BCE) is the first known Greek comic poet, but his influence in antiquity was in no way limited to dramatic literature. As the result of the interest in moral, linguistic, and philosophical subjects displayed in Epicharmus' comedies, after his death Epicharmus was believed to have had a real competence in those fields, and a number of moral, philosophical, and scientific treatises in verse, known as the pseudo-Epicharmean writings, were thus composed so as to collect and circulate the doctrines which came to be identified as Epicharmus'. Beside discussing the evidence for serious subjects in Epicharmus' comedies, this volume provides an analytic study of the fragments from the pseudo-Epicharmean writings and makes a case for considering the so-called fragments ex Alcimo as genuine examples of philosophical parody from Epicharmus' authentic comedies. All these materials are presented with a revised text and a word-by-word philological and exegetical commentary.
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Dr. Federico Favi ist Postdoctoral Fellow an der Faculty of Classics der Universität Oxford sowie Junior Research Fellow am Oriel College.
Summary
Epicharmus (ca. 530–440 BCE) is the first known Greek comic poet, but his influence in antiquity was in no way limited to dramatic literature. As the result of the interest in moral, linguistic, and philosophical subjects displayed in Epicharmus’ comedies, after his death Epicharmus was believed to have had a real competence in those fields, and a number of moral, philosophical, and scientific treatises in verse, known as the pseudo-Epicharmean writings, were thus composed so as to collect and circulate the doctrines which came to be identified as Epicharmus’. Beside discussing the evidence for serious subjects in Epicharmus’ comedies, this volume provides an analytic study of the fragments from the pseudo-Epicharmean writings and makes a case for considering the so-called fragments ex Alcimo as genuine examples of philosophical parody from Epicharmus’ authentic comedies. All these materials are presented with a revised text and a word-by-word philological and exegetical commentary.
Foreword
Epicharmos (ca. 530–440 v. Chr.) war der erste bekannte griechische Komödiendichter. Sein Einfluss war jedoch nicht nur auf die Literatur beschränkt. Seine Gedanken zu philosophischen und linguistischen Themen spiegeln sich auch in seinen Komödien wieder. Neben den philosophischen Themen in den Stücken diskutiert dieser italienischsprachige Band auch die Fragmente des Pseudo-Epicharmos, eine erst nach seinem Tod entstandene Sammlung der wissenschaftlichen Abhandlungen. Die Materialien werden in diesem Buch in überarbeiteter Form präsentiert und durch einen wortgenauen philogisch-, exegetischen Kommentar begleitet.
