Ancient, classical and medieval texts

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda.

This third and final volume concludes Hermias' commentary on Plato's Phaedrus.

With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.

Embark on a journey through the mind of one of history's greatest philosophers.

Helheim - Totenreich der Göttin Hel ist eine umfassende Erkundung einer der faszinierendsten und komplexesten Figuren der nordischen Mythologie.

This collection brings together twenty eight chapters written by Stephen Harrison's colleagues and former students from around the globe to celebrate both his distinguished teaching and research career as a classicist and his outstanding and admirable service to the international classical community.

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars.

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell's literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical content of his novels, and which may account for his being 'more widely read' than perhaps any other serious writer in the twentieth century.

Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts.

Das Buch ist Teil der Reihe Fragmenta Comica, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, alle erhaltenen Fragmente und Zeugnisse der komischen Dichter der griechischen Antike zu kommentieren und zu ubersetzen.

Drachen, die majestätischen Wesen der Mythen und Legenden, haben seit jeher die Vorstellungskraft der Menschheit beflügelt.

This book examines the use of multiple writing systems and scripts’ role as a narrative feature.

This collection brings together twenty eight chapters written by Stephen Harrison's colleagues and former students from around the globe to celebrate both his distinguished teaching and research career as a classicist and his outstanding and admirable service to the international classical community.

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history.

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription for examinations in 2026 28 of Nepos Life of Hannibal 1 13 ( Baebio Tamphilo) and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription for examinations in 2027 28 of Apuleius Metamorphoses VI, 7 21 and Tacitus Annals XIV, 29 37 and 59 (et posito metu ) 65, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

Der Mythos von Orpheus, dem legendären Sänger, der mit seiner Musik die Grenzen zwischen Leben und Tod überwand, hat über Jahrtausende hinweg Künstler und Denker inspiriert.

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category.

This dramatic early 14th century Middle English sermon rehearses humanity's wretchedness and the world's instability, before contemplating the journey from death to the anguish of purgatory and hell, or ultimately to the joys of heaven.

Hesiod's concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths - Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der antiken Mythen und kosmischen Ursprünge!

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies.

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda.

Willy Russell's 1983 play with music tells the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both.

Coriolanus - William Shakespeare - Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

This is the third volume in the series of commentaries on Early Greek Epic Fragments (EGEF III).

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von J.

It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek.

This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register of language best suited to composing Greek literature in the Roman Empire.

This two-volume work contains a selection of papers first presented at the 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Prague (2023).

Der Band ist eine Würdigung der Mediävistin Felicitas Schmieder.

Schildmaid - Furchtlose Frauen der Wikingerzeit: Mythos und Realität nordischer HeldinnenDie nordische Mythologie ist reich an Geschichten über mutige Kriegerinnen, die als Schildmaiden in die Legenden eingingen.

Der Adler – majestätisch, kraftvoll und geheimnisvoll – hat seit jeher die menschliche Fantasie beflügelt.