Iamblichus is the only Platonist philosopher whose philosophical letters have survived from the ancient world. These nineteen letters, which are translated into English here for the first time, address such topics as providence, fate, concord, marriage, bringing up children, ingratitude, music, and the cardinal virtues, with some letters addressed to students and others to prominent members of Syrian society and the imperial administration. The letters reflect the concerns of popular moral philosophy and illustrate the more public aspects of Iamblichuss philosophy. This volume provides a useful complement to On the Mysteries, and On the Pythagorean Way of Life, both published by the Society of Biblical Literature, and will be of interest to students of late antiquity, of Neoplatonic philosophy, and of early Christianity.
Wolfgang Polleichtner Books






Emotional questions
Vergil, the Emotions, and the Transformation of Epic Poetry - An Analysis of Select Scenes
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
This book brings together traditional approaches to the reception of the Homeric epic poems in Vergil's Aeneid, new advances in the field of Hellenistic poetry, as well as latest results from studies of emotions in antiquity. Using selected Vergilian passages that can be compared with a sufficient amount of relevant material from ancient poets and philosophers, this book attempts to reconstruct in greater detail what probably was Vergil's own understanding of what it meant to write epic poetry in his time.
Livy and intertextuality
- 242 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This collection of essays focuses on Livy's way of employing intertextual strategies in dealing with his direct and indirect sources. In sum, this perspective throws Livy's literary aspirations as an author of historiography into sharper relief. Livy emerges as a thoughtful critic not only of his sources but also of historiographical methodologies. This book includes articles by Jane D. Chaplin, Andrew Feldherr, Mary Jaeger, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Timothy J. Moore, Wolfgang Polleichtner, and Nadejda Popov-Reynolds.
Digitalisierung ist derzeit in aller Munde. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten einerseits grundsätzlich, aber andererseits auch speziell die Bedingungen, Herausforderungen und Chancen des Einsatzes digitaler Medien in Unterricht und Lehre allgemein und im Griechischen und Lateinischen an den Schulen und Hochschulen heute.
Dieser Band stellt in seinen Beiträgen an ausgewählten Beispielen moderne und antike Auffassungen von dem, was aus pädagogischer Sicht über Ethik und aus ethischer Sicht über Pädagogik gesagt wird, gegenüber. Besonders die Rolle von Unterricht durch, an und in Literatur wird dabei in den Fokus genommen.
Der Sammelband unternimmt von einer Standortbestimmung zu diesbezüglichen Theoriediskursen in der Klassischen Philologie aus den Versuch, fachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse auch für den Unterricht in der Sekundarstufe zur Verfügung zu stellen. Dabei stehen nicht konkrete Unterrichtsentwürfe im Vordergrund, sondern es geht darum, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie und die Praxis des Literaturunterrichts miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen.