Work
Frischlin's prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, which entitle him to some rank both among poets and among scholars. In his Latin verse he often successfully imitated the classical models; his comedies are not without freshness and vivacity; and some of his versions and commentaries, particularly those on the Georgics and Bucolics of Virgil, though now well-nigh forgotten, were important contributions to the scholarship of his time. There is no collected edition of his works, but his Opera poetica were published twelve times between 1535 and 1636.
Among those most widely known may be mentioned:
- the Hebraeis (1590), a Latin epic based on the Scripture history of the Jews
- the Elegiaca (1601), his collected lyric poetry, in twenty-two books
- the Opera scenica (1604) consisting of six comedies and two tragedies (among the former, Julius Caesar redivivus, completed 1584)
- the Grammatica Latina (1585)
- the versions of Callimachus and Aristophanes
- the commentaries on Persius and Virgil
See the monograph of David Friedrich Strauss (Leben und Schriften des Dichters und Philologen Frischlin, 1856).
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