The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Here, Klaus Lennartz presents for the first time his overall view of the antique genre of the Iambos: examining the “Truth effect” of the Solonic Iambic tradition and the integration of the Iambic “Classics” into the forms of discourse of the fifth century, together with the “Archilochus” and “Hipponax” questions, the Iambos Renaissance by Kallimachos and the Hellenists, the transformation of the Iambos into the Epigrammatic approach of Catullus and “client-orientation” of Horace as the Roman Archilochus. “Iambos. Philological investigations on the history of a genre in Antiquity” has been designed as a “molecular” reference work, while remaining a case study on the proliferation of a genre, that nevertheless exerts an influence beyond the boundaries of specialism.