Anthusa Oder Roms Alterthümer

It was designed to be the crowning glory of his academic career, yet for centuries it remained almost totally ignored. The present volume contains the first scholarly edition of Karl Philipp Moritz' magnum opus on classical studies »Anthousa or the Treasures of Roman Antiquity« (1791), complete with a detailed commentary. The commentary examines the work in the context of the historical discipline of antiquitates and provides a careful analysis of the wide range of sources Moritz drew upon. In so doing it focuses attention on the author, in a hitherto unprecedented way, as an agent of literary transmission and an inheritor of the occidental tradition.