Lecture notes on The Birds of Aristophanes, ca. 1844-1854.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887.

Contributor:

Universität Göttingen.

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes. Birds.

Aristophanes.

Genre:

Lecture notes.

Commentaries.

Manuscripts, German.

Physical Description:

1 item, unbound (1 box)

Contained In:

Ernst von Leutsch Papers. Box 24

Place of Publication:

ca. 1844-1854.

Language Note:

In German, with frequent use of Greek.

Biography/History:

German scholar of classical philology who completed his degree at the University of Göttingen in 1830, and subsequently taught there, beginning as a lecturer in 1831, and becoming a full professor in 1842.

Summary:

Ernst von Leutsch's handwritten notes for lectures he gave on the Birds of Aristophanes. The manuscript begins with a brief introduction (13 leaves) and otherwise consists entirely of a detailed commentary on the play with running references apparently to verse numbers, 1 to 1748. The introduction concerns the elements of comedy in general; the era of the performance of the play, with a the history of the year in which it was first performed; and the content and characters. As in all his manuscript lecture notes, Leutsch divides his pages into two columns, writing mainly in the column on the inner margin, and reserving the outer column for additional notes or references. The manuscript seems to contain one earliest set of notes, and then at least one or two additional layers of notes consistently inserted throughout, plus numerous miscellaneous leaves. The many references in the notes are predominantly to other classical texts rather than to the scholarly literature; a handful of dates in the 1840s could be found cited, the latest 1844, in a marginal note that may not belong to the oldest layer of the notes. Included is a printed item found with the manuscript, the last few printed pages from a declaration by the theological faculty of Göttingen published in 1854 (Erklärung der theologischen Facultat zu Gottingen).

OCLC:

760322790