Ancient, classical and medieval texts

There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies.

August Boeckhs Vorlesung über »Encyklopädie der Philologie« zählt zu den großen wissenschaftsbegründenden und -systematisierenden Entwürfen des 19.

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The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean.

This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode.

Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy.

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius' conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.

"e;The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power.

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.

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary.

This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles' Trachiniae.

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below).

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary.

This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles' Trachiniae.

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below).

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.

The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Latin literature: nonverbal behaviour, i.

The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Latin literature: nonverbal behaviour, i.

Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass die Architektur des Nibelungenlieds zwar inhaltlich fest, doch sprachlich sehr variant ist, ordnet vorliegende Studie dieses Werk weder als Produkt mündlicher Epik noch als Folge von Abschreibeprozessen eines "Originals" ein.

The foundation of Western literature, now in a modern and engaging translation.

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of "art of the Muses".

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This book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus.

First published in 1968, Virgil's Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation.

First published in 1968, Virgil's Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation.

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry.

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry.

First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.

First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.

Embark on an enlightening voyage through the ages with "e;Wisdom of the Ages: Seneca's Letters from a Stoic.

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c.

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c.

Wie erzählt Felicitas Hoppe in ihrer Bearbeitung den Nibelungen-Stoff?

This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy.

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy.