Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) was one of the most engaging and creative of German philologists during the formative period of modern classical scholarship; 'one of the heroes', Wilamowitz called him. Art, poetry and religion were to him all the same object of study, and a key to the world of Greek imagination and feeling. His attempt to grasp the meaning of all Greek mythology gave impetus to a still vigorous tradition. This work (in two volumes, first published 1835 and 1849) is his effort to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous reconstructions, here and in his companion work on Greek tragedy, do not always command assent, they offer many brilliant observations and insights. His influence has been as diffuse as it is unacknowledged; again and again one finds on reading him that Welcker said it first.

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Product details
- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108021371
- length: 580 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 37 mm
- weight: 1kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Einleitung
1. Die Gedichte des Troischen Kreises
2. Die Gedichte des Thebischen Kreises
3. Die uebrigen Gedichte des epischen Cyclus
4. Nochmals ueber den epischen Cyclus
5. Die Inhalte von Proklos und die Bruchstuecke
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Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker