Byzantine chronicles have traditionally been regarded as a somewhat inferior form of Byzantine history writing, especially in comparison with 'classicizing' historians.
Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death.
With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe.
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation.
In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology.
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC.
Weltenbrand, Sintflut oder ein einfaches Altern und Vergehen der Welt – Antike Autoren haben sich in verschiedenen Kontexten mit Konzepten des Weltuntergangs beschäftigt und diesen an ihre spezifischen argumentativen oder poetischen Absichten angepasst.
In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern.
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments.
Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure.
Das Erzählen in frühen Hochkulturen führt in seinem zweiten Band "Eine Archäologie der narrativen Sinnbildung" die bereits im Vorgängerband "Der Fall Ägypten" gestellten Fragen zu den Bedingungen des Erzählens in einer frühen Hochkultur nun im interdisziplinären Kontext fort.
The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference.
A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition.
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
The allegories of the virtues and vices were a common teaching tool in the Middle Ages for both religious and lay audiences to learn the basic tenets of the Christian faith.
This book reassesses the case for single authorship via an innovative statistical analysis that reveals significant stylistic differences between Luke and Acts.
Das Corpus Hippocraticum enthielt in der Antike eine (heute verlorene) chirurgische Schrift mit dem Titel „Über lebensgefährliche Verletzungen und Geschoßextraktion“, welche Erotian, der Hippokratesglossator der Nerozeit, ebenso wie Galen noch kannten.
Few women's voices have survived from the antiquity period, but evidence shows that, especially in the area of religion, women were influential in Greek culture.
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'.
Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy.
This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor.
