Gottfried Hermann's Opuscula (1827-1877) collects in eight volumes the shorter writings of this central figure of nineteenth-century classical philology. Best known for his work on Greek metrics and his editions of Aeschylus, Euripides and others, Hermann (1772-1848) drew on Kantian phenomenology as well as his own formidable understanding of ancient grammars to advance a compelling program of classical scholarship that took language itself as the primary witness to the distant past. Hermann's grammar-based scholarship drew criticism, but established him as foundational to modern philology. As Sihler wrote in 1933, 'He accepted nothing on mere authority, but investigated the causes and roots of every matter.' Volume 8 (1877), edited by Theodor Fritzsche, contains works written between 1839 and Hermann's death, including important essays on Aeschylus, Pindar and Euripides, reviews, and occasional verse. This diverse collection provides fuller insight into the mind of this highly influential scholar.
Table of Contents
Praefatio; 1. Godofredi Hermanni additamenta ad Opusc. voll. I-VII; 2. De iteratis apud Homerum; 3. Recension von Spitzner Observ. in Quinti Smyrnaei Posthomerica, Kochly Emend. et ann. in Quintum Smyrnaeum, Kochly Emendationes Nonni, Kochly Coniectanea in Apollonium et Oppianum; 4. De Hesiodi Theogoniae forma antiquissima; 5. Pindari Nemeorum carmen sextum; 6. De Pindari ad solem deficientem versibus; 7. De anecdoto Pindarico; 8. Ueber die Aegiden, von denen Pindar abstammte; 9. Ueber Pindars funfte olympische Ode; 10. Emendationes quinque carminum Olympiorum Pindari; 11. Non videri Aeschylum lambda omicronupsilon pi rhosigmaiotanu scripsisse; 12. De Prometheo Aeschyleo; 13. De re scenica in Aeschyli Orestea; 14. Ueber einige Trilogien des Aeschylus; 15. Retractiones adnotatorum ad Sophoclis Philoctetam; 16. De quibusdam locis Euripidis Troadum; 17. De interpolationibus Euripideae Iphigeniae in Aulide dissertationis pars prior; 18. De interpolationibus Euripideae Iphigeniae in Aulide dissertationis pars altera; 19. De Chaeremone poeta tragico; 20. Recension von Thomas, Commentatio de Aristoph. Avibus; 21. De choro Vesparum Aristophanis; 22. Recension von Aristophanis Lysistrata ex rec. R. Enger; 23. Recension von Aristophanis Thesmophoriazusae ex. rec. R. Enger; 24. Coniectanea critica; 25. Scholae Theocriteae; 26. De arte poesis Graecorum bucolicae; 27. De hymnis Dionysii et Mesomedis; 28. Zum Isis-Hymnus; 29. De loco Callimachei hymni in Delum et quibusdam epigrammatis; 30. Ueber Bruchstucke zweier Hymnen auf den Attis; 31. Ueber Aristoteles Peplos, Hipponax, Agamestor, das Lokrische Lied; 32. Epicharmea; 33. Thucydidea; 34. de L. Attii libris didascalicon; 35. De Horatii primo carmine dissertatio; 36. Ueber die Horazische Ode an Censorinus; 37. De Jo. Nic. Madvigii interpretatione quarundam verbi latini formarum; 38. Ueber das ne (nae) der lateinischen Sprache; 39. Oratio in quartis festis secularibus artis typographicae; 40. Ueber Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz; 41. Andeutungen uber das Antike und Moderne; 42. Carmen in honores semisaeculares Guil. Pistoth. Krugii; 43. Carmen saeculare in hon. Scholae Afranae; 44. Tabula Krugio dicata; 45. Tabula Portae dicata; 46. Tabula Academiae Albertinae dicata; 47. Tabula Jo. Paulo a Falkenstein dicata; Index.
