Paul Maas (1880-1964) was one of the most important classical scholars of the XX century. An excellent metricologist and theorist of textual criticism, he had the valuable habit of densely annotating the books of his personal library. Many of these volumes are now at the University of Milan and preserve a high amount of still unpublished reflections and textual proposals. In particular, all of the known volumes of Maas dedicated to Sappho and Alcaeus are now in Milan. In years when the study of Aeolic lyric has been revived by papyrological discoveries and new critical editions, this book aims at providing scholars with a broad selection of commented notes by Maas on the two poets. A postcard by Paul Maas to Achille Vogliano about a fragment of Aeolic lyric is published in the appendix.

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