Karl Plepelits

Karl Plepelits (* 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian classical philologist , Byzantinist , teacher , literary translator and writer .

Life

Plepelits grew up in Melk and got his Matura there at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk . From 1958 to 1964 he studied classical philology in Vienna , from 1965 to 1970 English in Innsbruck . From 1963 to 1970 he was a teacher of Latin, Greek, English and German at the Jesuit college Stella Matutina in Feldkirch and for a short time in 1970 at the Lichtenfelsgymnasium Graz . After receiving his doctorate with a dissertation published in 1970 on the Greek comedy poet Eupolis , he was a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich from 1970 to 1979 as a representative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1979 until his retirement in 2000 he was again a teacher for Latin and English (at the Seebachergymnasium, Graz). He has lived in Kapfenberg since 1996 .

Plepelits publishes short prose, short stories and novels. He has translated five romance novels from ancient Greece and the Byzantine Middle Ages.

Fiction

• The power of eros . Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 1998.
• Roman holidays, or: with the time machine into Roman times . Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 1998.
• Apocalypse II, or: Revelations of John . Klagenfurt: Röschnar, 2000.
• Myriam - In love with Egypt or in the clutches of the fundamentalists . Vienna: Vindobona, 2003, ISBN 3-85040-050-6 .
• Juliette or the Bay of Secrets . Paderborn: Stangl, 2004, ISBN 3-934969-64-X .
• Faith, the mountains and paradise . Vienna: Liber Libri, 2006.
• The forbidden fruit . Vienna: Liber Libri, 2008.
• Out and about in Egypt. Travel novel . Dienheim: Iatros, 2009.
• Visiting Aphrodite . Erkrath: Schweitzerhaus, 2009.
• A guest at Berenike . [Electronic Resource]. Eschborn: MeaLittera, 2009.
• On the way on the Nile: A journey through Egypt in the Arab Spring . Potsdam: Iatros, 2012.
• Helenos and Helena or: Love is stronger than death . Bärenklau: Edition Bärenklau, 2013.
• Mitra or: Comedy of Passions . Bärenklau: Edition Bärenklau, 2013.
• The secret of the rockrose or: Maria's strange messages . Bärenklau: Edition Bärenklau, 2013.
• The great catastrophe . Bärenklau: Edition Bärenklau, 2013.

Scientific writings

• The fragments of the demes of Eupolis . Diss. Univ. Wien, Vienna: Verlag Notring 1970 (dissertations from the University of Vienna, 46)

Translations

• Chariton of Aphrodisias : Kallirhoe . Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1976, ISBN 978-3-7772-7626-7 (Library of Greek Literature, Vol. 6)
• Achilles Tatios : Leukippe and Kleitophon . Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1980, ISBN 978-3-7772-8008-0 (Library of Greek Literature, Vol. 11)
• Eustathios Macrembolites : Hysmine and Hysminias . Introduced, translated and explained by Karl Plepelits. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1989, ISBN 3-7772-8929-9 (Library of Greek Literature, Vol. 29)
• Theodoros Prodromos : Rhodanthe and Dosikles . Introduced, translated and explained by Karl Plepelits. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1996, ISBN 3-7772-9612-0 (Library of Greek Literature, Vol. 42)
• Niketas Eugeneianos : Drosilla and Charikles . Introduced, translated and explained by Karl Plepelits. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2003, ISBN 3-7772-0302-5 (Library of Greek Literature, Vol. 61)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Plepelits in the catalog of the German National Library