La presenza di ripetizioni è una caratteristica formale tipica dei poemi omerici e di una poesia che, prima di giungere a una redazione scritta, è stata per secoli composta e trasmessa oralmente.
This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek and Latin literature and genres, from Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek drama and late antiquity, Greek historiography, and Latin lyric poetry.
Volume I of Franco Montanari's "e;Kleine Schriften"e; comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he decisively helped establishing as an extremely important field of study; they include general surveys of Alexandrian and Pergamene philology, major contributions to ancient Homeric scholarship (with a particular emphasis on Aristarchus), ancient scholarship on Hesiod and Aeschylus, as well as an important number of editions and notes on papyrological scholarly texts.
Die griechische Biographie der hellenistischen Zeit stellt eine Gattung dar, die trotz der Bemühungen der letzten Jahrzehnte noch immer unzureichend erschlossen ist.
Ein Logenplatz für Homer: Die Epen Ilias und Odyssee, gemeinhin dem angeblich blinden Dichter zugeschrieben, sind die ältesten literarischen Werke Europas und gehören unbestritten zu den einflussreichsten der Weltliteratur.
Manuscripts from the Byzantine era hand down lists of outstanding Greek authors or canons in the various literary and scientific-philosophical genres, but there has been a lack of research into their nature, chronology, origin, formation and use.
A conversational text that addresses many philosophical concepts as well as Western religion by questioning good versus evil and the unnecessary suffering of innocent people.
Die anonyme Erzählung von Alexander und Semiramis geht auf eine persisch-osmanische Vorlage des "Turandot"-Stoffes zurück, die nach den Konventionen des späten byzantinischen Liebesromans umgearbeitet wurde.
The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficult to give it flesh and bones by means of concrete examples.
The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest.