Academic literature on the topic 'Geschichte 1915-1923'

Abstract When he died at age ninety-three on July 8, 1966, Samson Eitrem, professor emeritus of classical philology at Oslo University, left an unfinished manuscript of over seven hundred pages entitled Magie und Mantik der Griechen und Romer, written for the renowned Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft. Its intention was to give an exhaustive treatment of both magic and divination, topics that Martin P. Nilsson, Eitrem’s contemporary (1874-1967), had touched upon in much shorter form in his Geschichte der griechischen Religion in the same Handbuch (3d ed., vol. 1 [1967]; 2d ed., vol. 2 [1961]). Eitrem was ideally suited for this task. Being a general classical philologist with an interest in, and knowledge of, archaeology as well, his scholarly activities were concerned especially with two fields: papyrology and the history of religion. The first manifested itself already in his first publication, an article on Bacchylides in the Oslo newspaper Morgenbladet in 1898 (a year after Kenyon had published his fundamental edition of the fragments); the second flourished early in the still-valuable monograph Opferriten und Voropfer der Griechen und Romer of 1915. The two fields merged in the study of ancient magic. From a trip to Egypt in 1920, Eitrem had brought back several papyri, among them magical ones, purchased from his own funds and donated to the Oslo University Library. After a thorough study of the major extant magical papyri in Paris, Berlin, and London, which yielded new readings and interpretations (1923), Eitrem edited the four Oslo magical papyri with translation and commentary (1925 and again for Preisendanz’ Papyri Graecae Magicae, to which Eitrem was recruited as a collaborator shortly after World War I).