Cassiodor, ›Variae‹ 6: Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Friederike Gatzka

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Cassiodor, ›Variae‹ 6

Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Cassiodorus, “Variae” 6: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Friederike Gatzka

Volume 132 in the series Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110595819

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Books 6 and 7 occupy a special position within Cassiodorus' Variae. They contain formulae, i.e. sample letters without specific addressees. Until now, they have hardly been taken into account by scholars, and have sometimes been used unfiltered as a source of information. This has ignored the fact that - contrary to what the praefatio might suggest - this is not a mere collection of forms to make administrative procedures easier, but a literary documentation of the Roman administration. This provides unique insights into the final period of the Ostrogothic Empire, but only if the linguistically demanding text is correctly understood and appreciated as a literary construct.
This work is the first to present a complete German translation of Book 6, flanked by a Latin reading text (closely based on Fridh's edition) and a comprehensive philological commentary. The preceding introduction examines the circumstances of origin, aims and possible literary models of the formulae; it also provides an overview of the linguistic, stylistic and argumentative characteristics of the text.

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Friederike Gatzka, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Vorwort Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Teil I: Einführung
1. Cassiodors Leben und Werk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Die formulae (CASSIOD. var. 6 und 7): Mehr als zwei Bücher der Variae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
3. Sprache, Stilistik und rhetorische Strategien in den formulae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
4. Textgrundlage, Übersetzung und Kommentierung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Teil II: Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
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(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Forscher der Klassischen Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Lateinischen Philologie des Mittelalters, Geschichte des Mittelalters.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 306
Keywords: Cassiodor; “Variae”; Ostrogoths

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Published: March 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110595819

Hardcover

Published: March 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110595468