In the Apophthegmata Erasmus presents a great number of famous sayings of famous people from Classical Antiquity, which he culled from Plutarch and paraphrased or loosely translated into Latin.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004181733
ISBN-13
9789004181731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
206148046
Product Key Features
Format
Cloth, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Genre
Literary Criticism
Dimensions
Weight
1256g
Height
270mm
Width
175mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Leiden
Spine
37mm
Edited by
Tineke L. Ter Meer
Pagination
402
Author Biography
Tineke L. ter Meer was trained as a scholar in Dutch literature at VU University Amsterdam, and achieved her doctorate with a study of the epigrams of Constantijn Huygens. She also edited his early Latin poems (2004). Currently, she assists in the translation of Erasmus' correspondence into Dutch.