Template:Did you know nominations/Eduard Fraenkel
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
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Eduard Fraenkel
... that Eduard Fraenkel's commentary on Aeschylus's Agamemnon was described as "a Teutonic monster"?Source: Four days later, Sisam reported to Cyril Bailey, the Press’s classical Delegate, that the book was ‘a Teutonic monster’, but added, ‘Maas and Denniston approve’. Note 34 in the article.- ALT1: ... that Eduard Fraenkel's 1922 book Plautnisches im Plautus was described by one reviewer as "the catalyst for modern Plautine scholarship"? Source: Yet the 1922 book was undoubtedly the catalyst for modern Plautine scholarship, and should still be the starting point for any serious work on Plautus. Note 27 in the article.
5x expanded by Modussiccandi (talk). Self-nominated at 11:05, 25 October 2021 (UTC).
Interesting career, on excellent sources, subscription sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I am not happy with the "monster" which seems to mean no more than length. I'd be open to the poem about his class, - that seems unusual. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, Gerda! I will add another hook on the poem by Murdoch below. Modussiccandi (talk) 09:49, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that Iris Murdoch wrote a poem juxtaposing the outbreak of World War II with a philological seminar by Eduard Fraenkel?
- nice! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:02, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that Iris Murdoch wrote a poem juxtaposing the outbreak of World War II with a philological seminar by Eduard Fraenkel?
- Thank you, Gerda! I will add another hook on the poem by Murdoch below. Modussiccandi (talk) 09:49, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
