This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it is as vibrant and relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago.
Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity, the volume starts from the premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically modelled and aesthetically shaped.
This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the first to rely on a complete scrutiny of the sources of the text and the conjectural activity of scholars, but is also characterised by a fresh methodological approach: the transmission of scholia is prone to creating different versions of basically the same material, and to conflating originally distinct entities; these peculiarities are fully taken into consideration in analysing the manuscript tradition and composing the critical text.
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.
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.
Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy.
