{"id":230,"date":"2019-03-06T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:49:57","slug":"ueber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sapere-series.ch\/en\/ueber\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greek and Latin texts of later antiquity have long tended to be overshadowed by the so-called \"classical\" periods (5th-4th century BC in Greece, 1st century BC-1st century CE in Rome).<\/p>\n

Yet the \"post-classical\" periods have produced a wealth of works in both languages, a not insignificant proportion of which are still of great interest today, dealing as they do with philosophical, ethical and religious questions that are enduringly topical.<\/p>\n

The SAPERE series has set itself the task of making precisely such texts accessible in a new form in such a way that they can appeal to an interested educated audience beyond narrow subject boundaries.<\/p>\n

In doing so, SAPERE deliberately wants to tie in with all the connotations of the Latin sapere<\/em> not only the intellectual one, which Kant made the motto of the Enlightenment in his translation of Horace's sapere aude<\/em>\"Have courage to use your own understanding\", but also the sensual one of \"tasting\": SAPERE not least wants to give readers a \"taste\" of the texts dealt with.<\/p>\n

For this reason, the careful scholarly study of the texts is combined with a linguistic presentation that keeps the intellectual-historical relevance in mind and makes the ancient authors understandable as interlocutors who can also provide interesting answers to contemporary questions.<\/p>\n

Each volume focuses on a particular text. The author is introduced and the work is introduced. The text-critically examined original text is provided with an easily readable and at the same time as accurate as possible translation as well as annotations.<\/p>\n

Each volume features experts from different disciplines - theology, religious studies, philosophy, history, archaeology, ancient and modern philologies, among others - who comment on the work from their respective perspectives in the form of essays, according to the requirements of the text.<\/p>\n

Above all, this form of interdisciplinary indexing clearly distinguishes SAPERE from conventional bilingual text editions.<\/p>\n

The project was funded by the G\u00f6ttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities until December 2023.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Since 01 January 2023, the project has been based at the SAPERE office at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Bern in office A109.<\/p>\n

The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Was ist SAPERE? Griechische und lateinische Texte des sp\u00e4teren Altertums haben lange Zeit gegen\u00fcber den sogenannten «klassischen» Epochen (5.-4. Jh. v.Chr. in Griechenland, 1. Jh. v.Chr. – 1. Jh. n.Chr. in Rom) eher im Schatten gestanden. Dabei haben die «nach-klassischen» Perioden in beiden Sprachen eine F\u00fclle von Werken hervorgebracht, von denen ein nicht geringer Teil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t