Nauck euripides biography
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The text provided at hand follows S. Schorn, Satyros aus Kallatis: Sammlung intrigue Fragmente fail Kommentar (Basel 2004). Readers should ask his issue for a full notes and papyrological apparatus. Depiction majority observe supplements meticulous conjectures were made unwelcoming A.S. Hunt; unless stated, those provided put in order his.
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ἐρρ]ητόριζε[ν ἐρρ]ητόριζε[ν Schorn : ἐρ]ητόριζε[ν Hunt
ἐν] τοῖς λόγοις̣
[ὢν] λογικὸς5
[καὶ] παραμιμή-
[σασ]θ̣αι τ ̣ν̣υ̣ τ ̣ν̣υ Schorn : τονυ[ Hunt[ ̣ ]
[3-4]κ̣α̣ι̣ς κ̣α̣ι̣ς Schorn : ]κης Hunt δυ-
[να]τ̣ὸς̣ α̣π̣
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[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ]οι[ ̣ ] ̣ [ ̣ ] ̣ ̣[ - - -
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2Fr. 8, notch. II 17-19 = Playwright, fr. 656 K.-A.
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[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ]λ̣α καὶ
[ηὖξ]εν [τὰ Ἴων]ος ζη[λῶν κα]λὰ καὶ [ηὖξ]εν Wilamowitz : [καὶ ἄλλα μὲν προσεξευρὼν ἄλλα δὲ καὶ αὐτ]ὸς ζη[λῶν πολ]λὰ Leo : ζη[λῶν ἀλ]λὰ von Arnim καὶ ἐ-
[τε]λ̣είωσεν
ὥστε τοῖς5
μετ’ αὐτὸν
ὑπερβολὴν
μὴ λιπεῖ̣ν·
κατὰ μὲν οὖν
[τ]ὴν τέχνην10
[ἁ]νὴρ τοιοῦ-
τος. διὸ καὶ
Ἀριστοφάνης
ἐπιθυμεῖ
τὴν γλῶσσαν15
αὐτοῦ
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Euripides
Euripides was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. From shortly after his death his plays were the most popular of any tragic poet and were repeatedly reperformed throughout antiquity wherever there were theaters. Aristotle seems to have regarded him as a close second to Sophocles and cites him again and again as a model for tragic writers, as well as occasionally criticizing him. He does not seem to have been nearly so successful during his lifetime, however, winning the first prize only five times in some twenty-two appearances in the tragic competitions. (One of these was for a posthumous first performance of plays left behind at his death.) Comic poets such as Aristophanes frequently parodied or otherwise made fun of him, sometimes in a friendly and appreciative spirit, sometimes in an (apparently) hostile one. It can be shown that this comic portrait is the head and font of most of the biographical tradition about Euripides. The tradition has recently been shown to be highly unreliable (see the work of M. Lefkowitz and M. Heath, cited below), and this has necessitated a re-examination of the plays themselves, whose interpretation, from Nietzsche onward, has frequently owed a great deal to the assumption that Old Comedy's portrait of
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Johann August Nauck
German classical philologist (1822–1892)
Johann August Nauck (18 September 1822 – 3 August 1892) was a German classical scholar and critic. His chief work was the Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF).
Biography
[edit]Nauck was born at Auerstedt in present-day Thuringia. He studied at the University of Halle as a student of Gottfried Bernhardy and Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier. In 1853 he became an adjunct under August Meineke at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. After a brief stint as an educator at the Grauen Kloster (1858), he relocated to St. Petersburg, where in 1869, he was appointed professor of Greek at the historical-philological institute.[1]
Nauck was one of the most distinguished textual critics of his day,[2] although, like PH Peerlkamp, he was fond of altering a text in accordance with what he thought the author must, or ought to, have written.[3] Nauck was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1885.[4]
Published works
[edit]The most important of his writings and translations, all of which deal with Greek language and literature (especially the tragedians) are as follows:
- Fragments of Aristophanes of Byzantium (1848).
- Euripi