| ISBN13: | 9783110191097 |
| ISBN10: | 3110191091 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 400 pages |
| Size: | 230x155 mm |
| Weight: | 708 g |
| Language: | German |
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The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.
Petrons Satyrica, einer der maßgeblichen fiktiven Texte der antiken Literatur, stehen seit den sechziger Jahren im Brennpunkt der internationalen Forschung. Lange Zeit war dieser Text nur in seiner zentralen Partie, der berühmten Cena Trimalchionis, in moderner Kommentierung erschlossen.
Diesem Missstand schafft der hier vorgelegte Kommentar für die besonders vernachlässigte zweite Werkhälfte Abhilfe. Er gibt dem Leser alles an die Hand, was zum Verständnis der Sprache, der Realien und der Handlung dienen kann. Darüber hinaus arbeitet er die wissenschaftliche Diskussion des Romans exemplarisch auf und leistet so einen grundlegenden Beitrag zu der nach wie vor umstrittenen Deutung der Satyrica insgesamt.
Im Mittelpunkt der Exegese steht die berühmte Novelle der "Witwe von Ephesos", deren kontroverse Diskussion in der modernen Sekundärliteratur ebenso beleuchtet wird wie ihre Rolle im Kontext des Romans.
Petronius' Satyrica, one of the most authoritative fictional texts of ancient literature, has been the focus of international research since the 1960s. For a long time, only the central part of this text, the famous Cena Trimalchionis, was analysed in modern commentaries.
The commentary presented here remedies this situation for the particularly neglected second half of the work. It provides the reader with everything they need to understand the language, the realia and the plot. In addition, it analyses the scholarly discussion of the novel in an exemplary manner and thus makes a fundamental contribution to the still controversial interpretation of the Satyrica as a whole.
At the centre of the exegesis is the famous novella of the "Widow of Ephesus", whose controversial discussion in modern secondary literature is examined as well as its role in the context of the novel.
"Habermehl's ninety-page commentary on the Widow of Ephesus is probably the best available analysis of the tale, which [...] has achieved more fame than the Cena Trimalchionis. He follows the story of the Widow to Joyce's Dublin, a related version even to China, but his primary goal throughout his commentary is traditional, hard-core, philological research: textual, linguistic, historical, literary." Gareth Schmeling ("A Commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius", Oxford 2011), in: GNOMON 94, 2022, 173-175
