From the epic adventures of gods and heroes to tales of the world's beginning, this illustrated collection of myths and legends from Greece and Rome is a captivating exploration of the tales that shaped the ancient world.
The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents.
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.
Featuring both the original text and a modern, translated version, this fourteenth-century Arthurian poem tells the legendary tale of the mysterious Green Knight and Sir Gawain, a great knight of the Round Table.
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.
