Ancient Sagas and epics

This study addresses the often-discussed relationship between the two works that comprise Aristotle's philosophy of human affairs, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics.

Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean.

The volume argues that the parenthesis, a rhetorical figure of speech and thought, can offer fresh insights into classical reception studies.

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Odin busca la manera de evitar el Ragnarok, el fin del mundo, en un universo lleno de magia y de fuerzas que le superan.

La tragedia se cierne sobre los nueve mundos.

La hermosa Freya, enviada por Odin al mundo de los enanos, queda prendada de un majestuoso collar que estos, los mejores herreros de los nueve mundos, estan elaborando.

Un manto de desolacion y tristeza cubre Asgard.

Loki ya no soporta mas las humillaciones de los dioses de Asgard.

Vientos de destruccion y muerte soplan en la creacion.

Desde hace algun tiempo, Balder, hijo de Odin y de Frigg y el dios mas bello y amado de todo Asgard, sufre horribles pesadillas en las que se ve a si mismo en el mundo de los muertos.

Resuelto a evitar el Ragnarok, Odin implora a la diosa Freya que le desvele los secretos de la magia vane, el seid.

Odin vive con preocupacion la impulsividad de Thor.

Thor es presa del desanimo.

The eight essays in this volume deal with different aspects of Mycenaean religion, synchronically and diachronically, and on the three different levels of philology, iconography and archaeology.

Research on the ancient Greek dialects traditionally focusses on the grammatical description of these regional varieties.

Research on the ancient Greek dialects traditionally focusses on the grammatical description of these regional varieties.

The eight essays in this volume deal with different aspects of Mycenaean religion, synchronically and diachronically, and on the three different levels of philology, iconography and archaeology.

This is the first study of travel, or mobility, and the ancient Greek theatre.

This is the first study of travel, or mobility, and the ancient Greek theatre.

Según cuenta el propio Dion Casio, político imperial de alto rango, se le apareció un genio en un sueño que le ordenó escribir textos históricos.

Platón nos ofrece en su Gorgias un diálogo de una indiscutible actualidad centrado en analizar la naturaleza de la retórica y la justicia.

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Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable 'points of reception'.

Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism.