Seneca, Epistulae morales V. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

塞内卡，《道德书信》V. 引言、文本、翻译和评论

• 批准号: 516319177
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Dominik Berrens
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/516319177?language=en
• 关键词: Seneca; Epistulae; morales; V.; Introduction

Seneca’s “Epistulae morales” is not only an influential work of Latin literature, but also a key source of Roman philosophy. Despite their importance, research on the "Epistulae" still shows some gaps. Above all, commentaries that make individual books systematically accessible are lacking. A total of 124 letters from Seneca to an addressee named Lucilius have come down to us, distributed over 20 books of various lengths. The arrangement of the epistles exhibits a progression from shorter letters with simple content to increasingly longer and more complex texts. The book structure is of great relevance with regard to literary composition and content, as has long been recognized for other letter collections as well as for epigram books. Nevertheless, most existent commentaries on the “Epistulae” offer a selection of letters and do not sufficiently consider the book structure and the progression of the corpus. This eclectic approach is partly the reason why the individual letters have received unequal attention in scholarship. Fairly recent commentaries on books 1 to 4 and on the beginning of book 6 are available, but a study on book 5 is still lacking. This gap in research is all the more regrettable as this book raises questions and themes that are of importance to the “Epistulae morales” as a whole. The figure of Lucilius, for instance, gains clearer contours in book 5. In addition, the book proves to be particularly coherent in terms of structure and lends itself to trace the means by which this coherence is created. The proposed project will deal with these and other questions in a volume on book 5 of the “Epistulae morales”. For this purpose, the eleven letters (Ep. 42–52) of this book will be comprehensively and coherently made accessible for the first time by means of an introduction and a scientific commentary. In addition, the volume will be accompanied by a Latin text and a German translation. Additional lectures and articles will study overarching issues, such as the structure of the entire corpus, and thus corroborate the knowledge gained from the book 5.

塞涅卡的《道德书信集》不仅是拉丁文学史上一部有影响的著作，而且是罗马哲学的重要渊源。尽管他们的重要性，研究“书信”仍然显示出一些差距。最重要的是，缺乏能够使个别书籍系统化的评论。塞涅卡写给一位名叫卢西留的收信人的信件共有124封，分发了20多本长短不一的书。书信的排列呈现出从内容简单的短信到越来越长、越来越复杂的文本的发展。书籍结构与文学创作和内容具有重要意义，这一点长期以来一直被其他信件集和警句书籍所认识到。然而，大多数现存的评论“书信”提供了一个选择的信件，并没有充分考虑到图书结构和语料库的进展。这种折衷的方法是部分原因，个别信件已收到不平等的关注，在奖学金。最近对第1至4卷和第6卷开头的评论是可用的，但对第5卷的研究仍然缺乏。这一差距的研究是更加令人遗憾的，因为这本书提出的问题和主题是重要的“书信莫拉莱斯”作为一个整体。例如，在第五卷中，卢西留斯的形象得到了更清晰的轮廓。此外，这本书被证明是特别连贯的结构方面，并借给自己跟踪的手段，这种连贯性是创造。拟议的项目将在关于“道德书信”第5卷的一卷中处理这些问题和其他问题。为此，11个字母（EP。42-52），这本书将全面和连贯地取得了第一次通过介绍和科学评论。此外，该卷还将附有拉丁文本和德文译文。额外的讲座和文章将研究总体问题，如整个语料库的结构，从而证实了从书中获得的知识。