Most of the papers in this volume result from the conference „Quattuor Lustra” held in Tartu on 3–4 December 2010. With this event, the Department of Classical Philology of the University of Tartu and Morgenstern Society celebrated the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of classical studies at the University of Tartu. The 21 papers are presented in more or less chronological order regarding the topics they focus on. The subjects pursued are quite diverse, from Hittite and Homeric etymology and lexicography all the way to social and political situation at the University of Tartu in the 19th century. In between we find notes on Greek epic, choral lyrics and tragedy, studies on authors from Late Antiquity (Philo, Philostratus, Eunapius, Claudian, Macrobius), ancient and Byzantine history, textual tradition of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Humanism and Neo-Latin vocabulary.

CONTENTS:

* Jaan Puhvel: Homeric πέπλος and Hittite palahsas;

* Carl Joachim Classen: Lehren und Lernen in den homerischen Epen;

* Mika Kajava: αἰολοβρέντας (Pind. Ol. 9.42);

* Anne Lill: Personal and social aspects of suicide in Greek tragedy;

* Heinz-Günther Nesselrath: Did it burn or not? Caesar and the Great Library of Alexandria: a new look at the sources;

* Otto Kaiser: Aretē und pathos bei Philon von Alexandrien;

* Paavo Roos: Philostratos and his trainer instruction;

* Danny Praet: Earnest play. Religion, rhetoric and intertextuality in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus;

* Martin Steinrück: Liebe und Gegenliebe (Eunap, VS 5.1.4, 5.2.2–5.2.7 und 6.8.3 ff.);

* Heinz Hofmann: ‚Andachtsbilder’ bei Claudian?;

* Gregor Vogt-Spira: Die Saturnalien des Macrobius: Eine implizite Poetik der Spätantike;

* Levente Takács: The incipit of the Liber coloniarum;

* Maarit Kaimio: The Petra Papyri: new light on the early Byzantine Near East;

* Michail Bibikov: ΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ;

* Horatio Caesar Roger Vella: The classical sources in the Tristia ex Melitogaudo: lament in Greek verse of a 12th-century exile on Gozo;

* Outi Merisalo: Currunt manus, psallunt homoeoteleuta. Transmitting medical texts in the late Middle Ages: the case of De spermate;

* Peter Kuhlmann: Übersetzungstheorie und Latinitas in der Renaissance am Beispiel des Leonardo Bruni;

* Walther Ludwig: Die Monodia des Marcus Antonius Muretus zum Tod des Pariser Parlamentspräsidenten Christophe de Thou (1583) – Idealbilder von Humanismus und Gerechtigkeit;

* Hans Helander: Scholarly and scientific Neo-Latin: some typical features;

* Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg: Im Schatten der Russifizierung. Zwei abgelehnte Rufe an die Universität Dorpat im Jahre 1889: Franz Studniczka und Ivo Bruns;

* Heikki Solin: De Campaniae et Latii idea