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Basler Homer-Kommentar [zur Ilias] (BK) / Homer’s Iliad. The Basel Commentary (BKE)

Project promoter: Swiss National Science Foundation in support of scientific research (SNSF), Berne.

Place of work: University of Basel, Department of Ancient Civilizations, professorial chair for Greek Philology, Petersgraben 51, CH-4051 Basel.

Funding: SNSF (see above). – Private sponsors (previous and current): Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel (FAG); Max Geldner Foundation Basel; Frey-Clavel Foundation Basel; Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, Hamburg (i.a.).

The team (previous and current) commentators/translators Greek-German: Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl (Basel), Dr. Claude Brügger (Basel), Dr. Marina Coray (Basel), Dr. Almut Fries (Oxford), Dr. Martha Krieter-Spiro (Basel), Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz (Basel), Prof. Dr. René Nünlist (Köln), Prof. Dr. Robert Plath (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Magdalene Stoevesandt (Basel), Prof. Dr. Edzard Visser (Basel), Prof. Dr. Katharina Wesselmann (Kiel), Prof. Dr. Martin West (Oxford).

The international team of experts (previous and current members): Prof. Dr. David F. Elmer (Harvard University), Dr. Rudolf Führer (Univ. Hamburg, LfgrE), Prof. Dr. Fritz Graf (Ohio State Univ.), Prof. Dr. Martin A. Guggisberg (Basel), Prof. Dr. Irene de Jong (Univ. Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. Michael Meier-Brügger (FU Berlin), Sebastiaan van der Mije (Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. René Nünlist (Univ. Köln), Dr. Magdalene Stoevesandt (Basel), Prof. Dr. Rolf A. Stucky (Basel), Prof. Dr. Jürgen v. Ungern-Sternberg (Basel), Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wachter (Univ. Lausanne/Basel), Prof. Dr. Martin L. West (Oxford).

Editor: Until 2002: Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz; since 2002: Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl and Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz.

Publishing house: until 2003: B.G. Teubner; since 2003: K.G. Saur; since 2009: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.

Published so far:

(a) German edition (double volume each: fasc. 1: Greek text and German translation; fasc. 2: verse commentary): Prolegomena (var. authors), 2000, 3. ed. 2009; Iliad 1 (Latacz/Nünlist/Stoevesandt), 2000, 2. ed. 2002; Iliad 2 (Brügger/Stoevesandt/Visser), 2003, 2. ed. 2010; Iliad 3 (Krieter-Spiro), 2009; Iliad 4 (Coray/Krieter-Spiro/Visser), 2017; Iliad 6 (Stoevesandt), 2008; Iliad 7 (Wesselmann), 2020; Iliad 14 (Krieter-Spiro), 2015; Iliad 16 (Brügger), 2016; Iliad 18 (Coray), 2018; Iliad 19 (Coray), 2009; Iliad 21 (Coray/Krieter-Spiro), 2021; Iliad 24 (Brügger), 2009.

(b) English edition [only fasc. 2, with revisions] (editor: Prof. Dr. S. Douglas Olson (Univ. of Minnesota); translators: Dr. Benjamin W. Millis and Dr. Sara Strack; funding: Stavros Niarchos Foundation, New York (i.a.)): Prolegomena: 2015; lliad 1: 2015; 3: 2015; 4: 2020; 6: 2016; 7: [2022]; 14: 2018; 16: 2018; 18: 2018; 19: 2016; 24: 2017.

In progress: Iliad 11 und 22.

This news story contributed by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz