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This volume of essays is chiefly concerned with the problems of interpretation raised by fragmentary evidence, especially by the partial or imperfect survival of texts from the classical world. The essays consider a variety of problems, addressing questions of literary history, source-criticism, editorial method, and scholarly technique.

Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind's place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of their works remains, however, except in later paraphrases that all too often are misrepresentations. Pythagoras had followers who attributed their own ideas to their master, Heraclitus wrote in a prose style so ambiguous that he came to be known as the Shadow, so that even the most earnest attem...

This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on the subject of Greek literature and textual studies. Organized in six sections, the papers concern tragedy, hellenistic poetry, novel and romance as well as the interaction between the Greek and the Latin world. Special focus lies on religious and ritual component in Greek literature.