Ancient, classical and medieval texts

In this sequel to Joyce Andrew's popular book, Bible Legacy of the Black Race: The Prophecy Fulfilled, three questions are raised:What happened to the history of Ham and his descendants (African Black nation)?

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.

Seit Jahrtausenden fasziniert der Phoenix Menschen auf der ganzen Welt.

Lucian's writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian's dialogues and stories.

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece.

This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of the Jews of Egypt, who constituted an important ethnic minority ever since they first appeared in the country.

Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies.

Nueva edición y traducción del libro que descubrió la naturaleza del amor.

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription for examinations in 2026 28 of Cicero's pro Roscio Amerino 5 (forsitan quaeratis ) 29 ( iugulandum vobis tradiderunt), and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription for examinations in 2027 28 of 29 (quid primum ) 32 (iuguletis aut condemnetis) and 37 (occidisse patrem ) 57 ( accusare possitis), 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.

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period.

Lucian's writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian's dialogues and stories.

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.

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!