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Volume 3 (1914) contains reviews and essays relating to Greek literary history and the history of philology.Volume 3 (1914) of this four-volume work contains essays on Greek literary history and on the development of philology as a discipline, as well as reviews. Usener pinpoints the time when Plato wrote Phaedrus, discusses the development of Attic theatre and contributes to the history of astronomical symbols.Volume 3 (1914) of this four-volume work contains essays on Greek literary history and on the development of philology as a discipline, as well as reviews. Usener pinpoints the time when Plato wrote Phaedrus, discusses the development of Attic theatre and contributes to the history of astronomical symbols.The German scholar Hermann Usener (18341905) made an important contribution to nineteenth-century scholarship in the fields of philology and comparative religion. In order to recreate a picture of the religions of the Greco-Roman world he drew on elements from the fields of ethnology, phenomenology and hermeneutics. This four-volume collection of essays and reviews was published posthumously in 19121914. Volume 3 (1914) reveals Usener's extensive knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. It contains essays on Greek literary history and on the development of philology as an independent discipline. Usener pinpoints the time when Plato wrote Phaedrus, discusses the development of Attic theatre and contributes to the history of astronomical symbols. The volume also includes several reviews.Vorwort; 1. Literarhistorisches; 2. Warnung; 3. Vergessenes; 4. Abfassungszeit des Platonischen Phaidros; 5. Beitr?ge zur Geschichte der legendenliteratur; 6. Unser Platontext; 7. Die Unterlage des Laertius Diogenes; 8. Beil?ufige Bemerkung; 9. Eine hesiodische Dichtung; 10. Philonides; 11. Rezensionen; 12. Die Entwicklung der Philologie im Zusammenhang mit der Berliner Universit?t; 13. Nachtr?ge zur Geschichte des attischen Theaters; 14. De Stephano Alexandrino; 15. Ad historiam l³"