This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true.
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets.
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets.
The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy.
Ameise, Frosch, Fuchs, Hund, Kuh, Lamm, Löwe, Wolf – und allerlei Federvieh: Sie alle nehmen in den Fabeln des Phaedrus unsere menschlichen Verhaltensweisen an und halten uns so den Spiegel vor.