Lecture notes on Thucydides, ca. 1847-1876.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887.

Contributor:

Universität Göttingen.

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

Thucydides.

Thucydides--Criticism, Textual.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Lecture notes.

Commentaries.

Manuscripts, German.

Physical Description:

1 item, unbound (2 boxes)

Contained In:

Ernst von Leutsch Papers. Boxes 28-29

Place of Publication:

ca. 1847-1876.

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 Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. Less than one tenth of the manuscript, or a little more than 100 leaves of it, comprises introductory material, addressing aspects such as the life of Thucydides and the sources for it; a review of the scholarly literature; and an overview of the circumstances of Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. The remainder of the manuscript is devoted to a detailed commentary on the History, with running references to book, chapter and verse numbers. The commentary appears to address only Book 1, up to approximately chapter 93. The manuscript is made up of individual gatherings and inserted leaves of varying appearances, evidently comprising an initial set of notes and additional notes inserted over time. In the bibliographic references in the introductory material, dates are found as late as the 1870s, the latest being 1876, in a marginal note that likely does not belong to the earliest period of writing. There is no certain basis for estimating a beginning date; however, references as late as 1847 occur in the main body of the introductory notes, in gatherings that one would take to belong to the initial set of notes.

OCLC:

761307820