Friedrich Solmsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 995392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friedrich Solmsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friedrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Solmsen |
| SIGNATURE | SOLMSEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Hesiod and Aeschylus
Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice. In this new order, however, the good aspects of the past would be pre…
Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment
Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior, the Greek Enlightenment has long been studied in terms of its doctrines and theories. To understand the environment in which the new ideas flourished and their impact, Friedrich Solmsen explores the novel intellectual methods that developed during the period. A variety of new modes of thought was introduced at this time or, i…
Isis among the Greeks and Romans
The Tradition About Zeno of Elea Re-Examined
Among students of Greek philosophy there is
Oxford Classical Texts
Restoring an Antithesis to Gorgias (82 B 16 Diels-Kranz)
According to the apparatus which accompanies the fragment in Diels-Kranz, the reading χλωρ⋯ Καί ἄναιμα is found in the scholia and in the MSS. of class II, whereas class I has χλωρ⋯ Καί ἔἄναιμα . We are also referred to Demetrius, Eloc
Plato, Phaedrus 263b6
Οὐκο⋯ν τ⋯ν μέλλοντα τέχνην ῥητορικ⋯ν μετιέναι πρ⋯τον μέν δεῖ τα⋯τα ⋯δῷ διῃρ⋯σθαι, κα⋯ εἰληɸέναι τιν⋯ χαρακτ⋯ρα ⋯κατέρου το⋯ εἵδουδ, ⋯ν ᾧ τε ⋯ν⋯γκη τ⋯ πλ⋯θος πλαν⋯σθαι Kα⋯ ⋯ν ᾧ μή ( Phaedrus 263b6–9). To the best of my knowledge the soundness of the first six words of this sentence ( Οὐκο⋯ν...μετιέναι ) has never been questioned, yet to accept them as they are in the manuscripts means to close one's eyes to the direction of the argument. At 260d5–…
Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum
Plato and the Concept of the Soul (Psyche)
Achilles on the Islands of the Blessed
Isis among the Greeks and Romans
The Sacrifice of Agamemnon's Daughter in Hesiod's' Ehoeae
The Best of the Achaeans. Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Empedocles'hymn to Apollo
Although ancient testimonies credit Empedocles with a larger number of works,1 editors and other scholars have been unanimous in dividing the preserved fragments between two, the physical poem and the Katharmoi. Diels' decisions in particular have enjoyed great authority; for while on the sequence of fragments within each of these two works debate was bound to continue, his distribution of the material between the two poems has by and large gone …
Zeugnisse Ägyptischer Religionsvorstellungen für Ephesus
Isis Among the Greeks and Romans
The Greek Concept of Justice. From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato
Studies in Lucian's De Syria Dea
Plato's Moral Theory. The Early and Middle Dialogues
Platonic Values in Aristotle's Science
Light from Aristotle's Physics on the text of Parmenides B 8 D-K
Leisure and Play in Aristotle’s Ideal State
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle declares: Soxel те fi eo8ac|iovia ev т^ ^X°^tl £^vatl) and uses this proposition to decide that man's highest happiness lies in the contemplative rather than in the active life. In the last books of the Politics the law-giver, deeply concerned as he has to be about the happiness of the citizens, must realize that leisure is an important phase of their life and must provide suitable occupations for it (for leisu…
The Academic and the Alexandrian Editions of Plato's Works
In 1942 Gtlnther Jachmann1' took fellow classicists to task for reconstructing the text history of Plato in antiquity without giving attention to a priceless testimony, the cri tical listed by Diogenes Laertius (III 65 f.) with the comment that they were found in the biblia of Plato. In Jach mann's view the use of these was evidence for a criti cal edition of Plato's works by one of the outstanding Alexan drian scholars. Jachmann's opinion has be…
Cleanthes or Posidonius?
Aristotle's system of the physical world
Propertius and Horace
Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum
Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment
Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior, the Greek Enlightenment has long been studied in terms of its doctrines and theories. To understand the environment in which the new ideas flourished and their impact, Friedrich Solmsen explores the novel intellectual methods that developed during the period. A variety of new modes of thought was introduced at this time or, i…
The Erinys in Aischylos' Septem
Horace's First Roman Ode
Cicero's First Speeches
Hesiod and Aeschylus
Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice. In this new order, however, the good aspects of the past would be pre…
Zur Gestaltung des Intriguenmotivs in den Tragödien des Sophokles und Euripides
Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum
Strata of Greek Religion in Aeschylus
Professor H. J. Rose's thoughtful and suggestive article, “Mythology and Theology in Aeschylus,” has probably led many students of Aeschylus to reread his tragedies with an eye on the specific problems to which Rose directs our attention and also to rethink such impressions and views concerning Aeschylus' religious outlook as they may previously have formed. Professor Rose skillfully illustrates the difference between mythology and theology by co…
Achilles on the Islands of the Blessed
Empedocles'hymn to Apollo
Although ancient testimonies credit Empedocles with a larger number of works,1 editors and other scholars have been unanimous in dividing the preserved fragments between two, the physical poem and the Katharmoi. Diels' decisions in particular have enjoyed great authority; for while on the sequence of fragments within each of these two works debate was bound to continue, his distribution of the material between the two poems has by and large gone …
The Sacrifice of Agamemnon's Daughter in Hesiod's' Ehoeae
The Tradition about Zeno of Elea re-examined
Acceptance of Plato's testimony in the Parmenides raises more problems than has commonly been realized. Plato's divinatio may have hit the truth, but to have this confidence involves an act of faith. If anyone wonders what other theory we may put forward regarding Zeno's treatise, he may take notice of the fact that in the Phaedrus Plato mentions Zeno in the company of rhetoricians like Thrasymachus, Theodorus, and Gorgias. In the devising of new…
Love and Strife in Empedocles' Cossnology
109 Love and Strife in Empedocles' Cossnology* F. SOLMSEN n Heraclitus and Parmenides assumptions which form the basis of t our interpretation are subject to frequent reexaminations and revisions. With Empedocles matters are different. Here large hypotheses have for a long time remained unchallenged and are now near the point of hardening into dogmas. In particular the recon- struction of a dual cosmogony in his "cycle", originally a theory which…
Aristotle's System of the Physical World
Eratosthenes' Erigone
Nature as Craftsman in Greek Thought
Aristotle's System of the Physical World
The Tablets of Zeus
P rofessor F raenkel in his recent very illuminating article on ‘The Stars in the Prologue of the Rudens’ ( C.Q. xxxvi. 10 ff.) has explained how a Greek poet at the end of the fourth century could describe the stars as the messengers of Zeus and as his regular and, so to speak, professional informants on the sins and evil deeds of human beings. He also comments on the idea that the sins are recorded in Heaven ( eorum referimus nomina exscripta a…
Plato and the Concept of the Soul (Psyche)
Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology
Tissues and the Soul
The Discovery of the Syllogism
The Origins and Methods of Aristotle's Poetics
A new examination of Aristotle's Poetics has confirmed my conviction that a number of old and new puzzles can be solved by the same analytical method which in recent years (though not entirely unchallenged) has been successfully applied to a good many of his writings, giving us a better insight into the growth and successive elaboration of his thought. The importance of the Poetics seems to me to justify any attempt to discover the original train…
Zur Gestaltung des Intriguenmotivs in den Tragödien des Sophokles und Euripides
Die Theorie der Staatsformen bei Cicero de re publ. I
The Origins and Methods of Aristotle's Poetics
A new examination of Aristotle's Poetics has confirmed my conviction that a number of old and new puzzles can be solved by the same analytical method which in recent years (though not entirely unchallenged) has been successfully applied to a good many of his writings, giving us a better insight into the growth and successive elaboration of his thought. The importance of the Poetics seems to me to justify any attempt to discover the original train…
The Background of Plato's Theology
The Erinys in Aischylos' Septem
A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century A.D.
Aristotle and Cicero on the Orator's Playing upon the Feelings
Cicero's First Speeches
La Question Platonicienne
La Morale Antique
Plato and the Unity of Science
The Aristotelian Tradition in Ancient Rhetoric
The Aristotelian Tradition in Ancient Rhetoric
The Discovery of the Syllogism
Plato's Theology
Eratosthenes as Platonist and Poet
Philodemus
The Theory of Motion in Plato's Later Dialogues
Plato's Theology
Boethius and the History of the Organon
Cicero on Religio and Superstitio
T. Lucreti Cari
The Tablets of Zeus
P rofessor F raenkel in his recent very illuminating article on ‘The Stars in the Prologue of the Rudens’ ( C.Q. xxxvi. 10 ff.) has explained how a Greek poet at the end of the fourth century could describe the stars as the messengers of Zeus and as his regular and, so to speak, professional informants on the sins and evil deeds of human beings. He also comments on the idea that the sins are recorded in Heaven ( eorum referimus nomina exscripta a…
Kausalitat und Zufall in der Philosophie des Aristoteles
Strata of Greek Religion in Aeschylus
Professor H. J. Rose's thoughtful and suggestive article, “Mythology and Theology in Aeschylus,” has probably led many students of Aeschylus to reread his tragedies with an eye on the specific problems to which Rose directs our attention and also to rethink such impressions and views concerning Aeschylus' religious outlook as they may previously have formed. Professor Rose skillfully illustrates the difference between mythology and theology by co…
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