Thesis (doctoral)--"Academia Albertina" Kn̲igsberg, 1859. / Vita. Includes quotations in Greek. Filmed with: Wennemer, J. / De Pacuvio inprimis de eius Antiopae, Dulorestis Ilionaeque fragmentis -- Plato ; Nordstrom, J.S. / Platonis Phaedo suethice redditus -- Ostermayer, F. / De historia fabulari in comoediis Plautinis -- Pauer, P. / De rerum ab Agricola in Britannia gestarum narratione Tacitea -- Voretzsch, H.B. / De inscriptione Cretensi qua continetur Lyttiorum et Boloentiorum foedus -- Vorlaender, W. / De Catulli ad Lesbiam carminibus -- Tyrwhitt, T. / Dissertatio de Babrio fabularum Aesopearum scriptore -- Unger, R.A. / Libri primi Thebanarum rerum specimen -- Urlichs, L. von / Skopas in Attika -- Fritsche, F.V. / Quaestiones Lucianeae -- Hyperides ; Schneidewin, F.W. / Hyperidis orationes duae ex papyro Ardeniano editae -- Schneidewin, F.W. / Diana Phacelitis et Orestes apud Rheginos et Siculos -- Seyffert, O. / Quaestiones metricarum particula : de bacchiacorum versuum usu Plautino -- Weyland, P. / De Nubibus Aristophanis -- Wichers, R.H.E. / De coloniis veterum -- Wellmann, E. / Philosophie des Stoikers Zenon -- Weissenborn, E. / De adjectivis compositis Homericis -- Sudhaus, S. / Prolegomenon ad Philodemi Rhetorica -- Naber, S.A. / Specimen philologicum inaugurale de fide Andocidis orationis De mysteriis -- Wagner, F.W. / De Evenis poetis elegiacis eorumque carminibus -- Vl̲ker, C.C.C. / Commentationis de C. Cornelii Galli Foroiuliensis vita et scriptis pars prior -- Volkmann, R. / De Nicandri Colophonii vita et scriptis -- Weclewski, S. / De Sophoclis Oedipo Rege commentatio -- Weber, G. / De Gytheo et Lacedaemoniorum rebus navalibus -- Wimmer, H. / Observationes Livianae -- Voelkel, H. / De Chaucorum nomine sedibusque ac rebus gestis -- Zenzes, J. / De Dionysio Minore Syracusorum tyranno -- Ziegeler, E. / De Luciano poetarum judice et imitatore -- Zanolli, A.A. / De Pseudophocylidea -- Ziel, E. / Ueber die dramatische Exposition -- Woelffel, H. / Emendationes in Cornelii Taciti libros -- Wehr, J. / Quaestiones Aristophaneae -- Cobet, C.G. ; Witzschel, A. / Scholia antiqua in Euripidis Tragoedias. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Inaugural-Dissertation)--Bonn, 1955. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis is a new edition of the Preface and Books 1-8 of Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας. It includes an introduction, critical apparatus, apparatus of parallel passages and notes on the text, and is intended as a contribution to modern Herodianic studies. Most of our knowledge of Greek accentuation is due to Herodian’s lost Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας. The main sources for this work, an epitome misattributed to Arcadius and another by John Philoponus, do not have modern critical editions. Lentz’s only collected edition of Herodian’s works (1867-70) is difficult to work with, because Lentz attempts to reconstruct Herodian’s work rather than to lay out the surviving evidence. The new critical edition of Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome is a response to the need for new and separate editions of the sources for the Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας. A new edition of this text is important because the previous two editions (Barker 1820, Schmidt 1860) have many weaknesses; neither editor examined all the surviving manuscripts, and they did not read the manuscripts themselves but used copies made by other people. My new examination of all the surviving manuscripts, excepting some very late and uncontroversially derivative manuscripts, comes to a new conclusion about their interrelations. The two manuscripts which I am the first to employ turn out to be the only non-derivative manuscripts, and therefore by far the most important. They enable us to improve the text significantly. My introduction includes a substantial new evaluation of the interpolated or doubtful sections in the epitome, whose study is impeded by confusion as to their date and relationships to other works. It also discusses the authorship of this epitome, and its grammatical terminology and concepts. Another innovation is the apparatus of parallel passages. The collection of other texts that have derived material from Herodian shows the extent of Herodian’s influence on later grammatical texts. The parallel passages, as witnesses to Herodian’s text in some form, often enable us to correct the text of Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome. A further contribution of my thesis consists of the commentary, which discusses corrupt passages, features of the text that have never been explained before, and places where specific details of the epitomator’s methods can be identified. The commentary also provides argumentation supporting decisions taken in editing the text, and other helpful information for the understanding of the text.

This thesis challenges one of the fundamental assumptions about Rome's political upheaval in the third century CE. This period is conventionally defined by the growing political influence of the army at the expense of the Senate, after the Severan emperors made it clear that their hold on power rested on military support. The soldiers would grow bolder in asserting their position, eventually coming to overthrow emperors at will. I present a broad reassessment of the evidence for a historical model which derives from the narratives of two contemporary witnesses, Cassius Dio and Herodian. Dio is the subject of my first discussion. I address two problems. Firstly, Dio's contemporary history survives only through Byzantine epitomes and excerpts. Its irreparable alteration means that Dio's later books cannot be treated in their own terms, but have to be contextualised against the wider thematic framework of his thousand-year account. Secondly, I turn to Dio himself. Within that framework, Dio presents himself as the ideal senatorial historian. In doing so, he is able to define a uniform senatorial experience, which excludes everything else as deriving from military corruption. An analysis of Herodian follows, also in two parts. The first analyses Herodian's construction of Roman society into three constituent parts, Senate, army and people. I show how these simplistically homogenous social units allow Herodian to explore imperial character, even as they cause inconsistencies in his political narrative. I then address Herodian's account of Maximinus Thrax. This narrative has been presented as the historical culmination of the army taking over politically. I argue instead that it represents the climax of Herodian's rhetorical scheme. Overall, the model of political conflict is built on two contemporary accounts which have specific reasons to simplify matters in their presentation of political activity. In order to understand the nature of political change in this period, I argue that it is necessary to move beyond them.

Univ., Habil.-Schr.--München, 2002.