Jan Maarten Bremer

Jan Maarten Bremer (* 1932 ) is a Dutch classical philologist and professor emeritus for Greek studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam .

Bremer was in 1969 with a well-received dissertation on the concept of Hamartia in the poetics of Aristotle his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Later he was given the chair of Greek studies there. Among other things, he acted as editor of the magazine Mnemosyne . He is a member of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song founded by Ewen Bowie and André Lardinois in spring 2007 .

In his scholarly work, Bremer focused primarily on Greek poetry in the form of the Homeric epic , archaic poetry and iambos , classical tragedy and comedy and the ancient genre of the hymn , choosing a traditional, mostly edition-philological approach.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Hamartia. Tragic error in the poetics of Aristotle and in Greek tragedy. Amsterdam 1969. (dissertation).
• with Donald J. Mastronarde : The textual tradition of Euripides' Phoinissai. University of California Press, 1982 (University of California publications: Classical studies, Vol. 27), ISBN 0-520-09664-9 . Google Books: [1]

Text editions

• with Anna Maria van Erp Taalman Kip , SR Slings: Some Recently Found Greek Poems: Text and Commentary. Brill, Leiden, 1987 ( Mnemosyne. Supplementum , Vol. 99), ISBN 90-04-08319-7 . Google Books: [2] . ( Archilochus , Alkaios , anonymous commentary on Hipponax , Stesichoros )
• with William D. Furley : Greek Hymns . Volume I: The Texts in Translation. Volume II: Greek Texts and Commentary. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2001 (Studies and Texts on Antiquity and Christianity, Vol. 9-10), ISBN 3-16-147527-5 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-16-147553-4 (Vol. 2). Review: Andrew Faulkner, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.36 [3]

Editorships

• with Irene de Jong (Ed.): Homer beyond Oral Poetry. Recent trends in Homeric interpretation. Grüner, Amsterdam, 1987, ISBN 90-6032-215-0 .
• with Eric Handley (Ed.): Aristophane. Sept exposés suivis de discussions. Vandoeuvres-Genève, 19 - 24 août 1991. Fondation Hardt pour l'Etude de l'Antiquité Classique, Vandoeuvres, 1993 (Entretien sur l'Antiquité Classique, tome 38), ISBN 3-7749-2602-6 .
• with Theo PJ van den Hout, Rudolph Peters (Ed.): Hidden Futures. Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 1994.

Essays

• with Marc Huys: Some remarks on the new edition of the "Tattoo Poem" (= P. Brux. Inv. E.8934 + P. Sorb. Inv. 2254). In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 92 (1992), pp. 118-120. Online version (PDF; 66 kB).
• Plutarch and the Liberation of Greece. In: Lukas De Blois, Jeroen Bons, Ton Kessels, Dirk M. Schenkeveld (Eds.), The Statesman in Plutarch's Works. Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. Brill, Leiden 2005 (Mnemosyne. Supplementum, Vol. 250), ISBN 90-04-13808-0 , pp. 257-267. Google Books: [4] .
• From Stony Facts to Paper Flowers. In: Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies . 38, 2003, pp. 304-313. (To the Greek epigram).