Kleine Schriften 4 Volume Paperback Set

The German scholar Hermann Usener (1834–1905) 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 1912–1914.

Volume 1 (1912) contains essays and reviews relating to Greek philosophy, rhetoric , grammar and textual criticism.

Volume 2 (1913) focuses on Latin grammar and literature.

Volume 3 (1914) is devoted to Greek literary history and the history of philology, and Volume 4 (1913) contains 22 essays on the history of religion, ranging from Kallone to Chrysostom.