Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des antiken Helden Herkules in ›Die Erfindung des Herkules‹, einem Sachbuch, das Mythos, Legende und historische Fakten vereint.
El destino imperial de los Habsburgo nació en 1273, con el conde Rodolfo de Habsburgo, y terminó el 11 de noviembre de 1918, cuando su descendiente Carlos I abdicó la corona imperial de Austria en el palacio de Schönbrunn.
Johann Roch untersucht, inwiefern der Wahrnehmungszweifel als philosophisch-skeptischer Inhalt in den beiden Werken der höfischen Epik ›Partonopier‹ und ›Diu Crône‹ literarisch produktiv wird.
First Published in 1965, The Panchatantra is a reprint of Franklin Edgerton's translation, first published in volume two of Panchatantra Reconstructed (1924), with some minor alterations.
Questa edizione contiene il testo greco degli scholia (vetera e recentiora) e delle glosse all'Andromacha di Euripide con un apparato critico e un apparato di loci similes.
In earlier scholarship, the late antique medical compilations of Oribasius of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida and Paul of Aegina were rather neglected and were believed to add nothing new themselves to what Galen, in particular, had to say.
Building on Calvino's observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone.
Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy.
Things themselves touch not the soul, not in the least degree; nor have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul: but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and whatever judgments it may think proper to make, such it makes for itself the things which present themselves to it.
One of the best written and most amusing treatises of antiquity is Lucian's True History, forming a rather long narrative in two books, which suggested Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Rabelais's Voyage of Pantagruel and Cyrano de Bergerac's Journey to the Moon.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role.
