Ancient, classical and medieval texts

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time.

Vom antiken China über das mittelalterliche England bis ins 18.

›Macht‹ und ›Herrschaft‹ als prägende politisch-gesellschaftliche Organisationsformen sozialer Ordnung der Vormoderne werden in dieser kommentierten Zusammenstellung von Texten, Bildern und Artefakten anschaulich.

Die mittelhochdeutsche 'Kaiserchronik' ist in der germanistisch-mediävistischen Forschung als ein bemerkenswertes Experiment historischen Erzählens profiliert worden.

One of the well-known topoi of medieval literature is the high degree of congruity between the outer and inner character of the protagonist.

Die Konstruktion und Darstellung einander überkreuzender Zeitlichkeiten ist nicht erst in der Moderne ein wesentliches Merkmal von Kunst und Literatur.

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.

Herrschaft wird im ›Prosalancelot‹ in vielfältiger Weise und an ganz unterschiedlichen Figuren diskutiert.

Zur vormodernen Herrschaftsausübung gehörte das Einholen von Rat.

Der Band versammelt aktuelle mediävistische Forschungsansätze aus den Bereichen der Gender Studies, der Queer Studies und der Intersektionalitätsforschung.

Was braucht es, damit eine Reform gelingt?

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions?

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions?

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity.

The term "e;radical formalism"e; refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form.

The term "e;radical formalism"e; refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form.

The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers.

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers.

First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians.

Wer sich mit den Theorien oder Positionen von Philosophinnen und Philosophen auseinandersetzen will, kommt nicht umhin, ihre Texte entweder als Ganzschriften oder in Auszügen zu lesen, sie zu analysieren, zu interpretieren und Stellung zu ihnen zu beziehen.

»Als hätten sich Tolkien und Eco zusammengetan.

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Regelmäßig und nicht nur zur Karlspreisverleihung wird Karl der Große euphorisch beschworen.

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galenthe most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocratesis a central figure in Western medicine.

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galenthe most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocratesis a central figure in Western medicine.

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.

The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest.

Everything that was explained to us at school about Bazarov is unnatural.

"Wie du in 3 Monaten eine neue Sprache lernst" ist ein äußerst praktischer Leitfaden, der dem Leser hilft, sein Sprachlernziel in kürzester Zeit zu erreichen.

Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over.

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.

First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians.

Taking the reader through the fragmentary text of Petronius' Satyrica in a coherent sequence, this book gives a deeper understanding of the fascinating aesthetic, literary and social issues raised within the text.

This book investigates the complex reception of Terence in Ovid and a number of allusions to the Terentian comedies in the love elegies and the exilic elegiac epistle Tristia 2.

The Dream of the Red Chamber provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia clan-the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House-who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital.

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity.

Ha comenzado el Invierno Atroz en Midgard, ya no hay manera de impedir el Ragnarök, la batalla del fin del mundo, que marcará el fin de la humanidad o, tal vez, un nuevo comienzo.

Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies.