Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest.

The Alexander Romance is a difficult text to define and to assess justly.

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Together with "e;Critical Notes on Virgil"e; (De Gruyter 2016), this volume offers an enlightening complement to the critical text of the Georgics and the Aeneid recently published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.

In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture.

This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.

Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

La Seconda guerra mondiale costituisce una cesura nellastoria delle ricezioni del mito di Antigone: l'esperienza deltotalitarismo e della Resistenza condiziona in maniera determinantela lettura della tragedia di Sofocle.

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

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Argues that Lucan''s Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Augustinus' "Bekenntnisse" erschlossen der Antike einen fremden seelischen Bezirk: das Reich der Innerlichkeit.

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

Nach dem Ende der römischen Republik stellte sich für Augustus und seine Nachfolger die Aufgabe einer Restabilisierung der sozialen und politischen Ordnung.

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds.

Latin epics such as Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Civil War, and Statius's Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order.

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development.

While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god's Roman and Italian manifestations.

This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920.

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

Die zu der Sammlung der hippokratischen Schriften gehörende Abhandlung nimmt im Corpus eine Sonderstellung ein, da sie mit ziemlicher Sicherheit einem bestimmten Autor zugewiesen werden kann: Polybos, dem Schüler und Schwiegersohn des Hippokrates.

This book rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available.

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly.

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjectsproductively.

Investigations into the "e;realities"e; of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

First published in 1906, The Fool of Quality; a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke, is the only one of his works which has enjoyed any great reputation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax.

Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates.