Wenige Jahre, bevor in Deutschland und Frankreich Millionen junger Menschen demonstrierten und gegen die enge Welt ihrer Eltern rebellierten, waren die Straßen Indonesiens rot von Blut.
Ein klassischer Mysterythriller von Italiens Bestseller-Autor Valerio ManfrediBei Ausgrabungsarbeiten in der Nähe von Rom werden sieben Statuen gefunden, darunter vermutlich auch das mythenumwobene hölzerne Standbild der Athene.
Intertextuality is a well-known tool in literary criticism and has been widely applied to ancient literature, with, perhaps surprisingly, classical scholarship being at the frontline in developing new theoretical approaches.
The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship.
This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
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.
The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England).
This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field.
Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the characters, the actors and the spectators.
Der Phönix, der mythische Vogel, der sich selbst verbrennt und aus seiner eigenen Asche wiedergeboren wird, hat seit Jahrtausenden die Vorstellungskraft der Menschen beflügelt.
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.
The absence of a trustworthy critical edition of the Greek text of Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana has long been felt, the most recent critical edition being the editio minor prepared by C.
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.
Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy.
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.
This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius' programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual dialogues with many writers.
Escribir un prólogo para un libro de poesía ya es sintomático de la situación defensiva en que se encuentra este género artístico en el mundo de hoy, y es mucho más clara esta connotación cuando quien prologa es el mismo poeta.
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