Here is the first complete commentary to the 91 fragments of the Attic comic poet Strattis (ca. 410-380 BC): Christian Orth (ed.). Strattis: die Fragmente. Ein Kommentar. Studia comica. Berlin: VA, Verlag Antike, 2009. Pp. 328. ISBN 9783938032329. € 54.90.
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December 16 2009
Ananios of Kleitor
On the Papy-list Traianos Gagos announces the publication of the fragments of an almost unknown Greek poet named Ananios of Kleitor: George Economou. Ananios. Ananios of Kleitor. Shearsman Books, 2009. Pp144. ISBN 978-1848610330. £9.95 (US $17). Ananios was born in 399 BC in the Arcadian city of Kleitor. His work is known through forty-one fragmentary [...]
December 15 2009
DAI – FGrHist V
The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) is sponsoring the edition, translation, and commentary of the ancient geographers’ fragments originally planned by Felix Jacoby for the fifth volume of the Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. The project FGrHist V is directed by Hans-Joachim Gehrke and coordinated by Veronica Bucciantini. This project involves a large international team of editors. [...]
December 7 2009
Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta
Sergei Mariev (ed.). Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta quae supersunt. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae 47. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. x, 599. ISBN 9783110204025. $207.00. Reviewed by Mark Whittow on BMCR 2009.12.06 Cf. also BMCR 2006.07.37 on Roberto Umberto (ed.). Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica. Introduzione, edizione critica e traduzione. Texte und Untersuchungen zur [...]
November 25 2009
Istros the Callimachean: the fragments on Athens
Monica Berti, Istro il Callimacheo, I, Testimonianze e frammenti su Atene e sull’Attica, Edizioni Tored, Tivoli (Roma) 2009 This is the first volume of the edition of the fragments of Istrus the Callimachean. Istrus was a pupil of the great Hellenistic poet Callimachus and worked in the Alexandrian Library. He was interested in many aspects [...]
