Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric  poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author.

This book demonstrates Pindar''s importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

This book is concerned with the transmission and reception of Latin literary culture in the early Middle Ages, and with the production of Latin works in Ireland and in Irish centres on the Continent.

This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

A celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of Nancy Freeman Regalado in the field of medieval French literature.

What is the body when it performs music?

Die Figur als literarisches Subjekt wurde im narratologischen Diskurs lange marginalisiert.

The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.

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The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church.

Die folgende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der „homerischen Frage" in dem umfassenden Sinn, wie sie sich in der Geschichte der neuzeitlichen Homerwissenschaft entwickelt hat, von der Frage nach dem homerischen Dichter und seiner Tradition bis zu der Frage nach deren Zuordnung zu den beiden verschiedenen historischen Epochen, die die archäologischen Forschungen ans Licht gebracht haben, der mykenischen und der „geometrischen" frühgriechischen Epoche.

A fresh and exciting study of Cicero''s philosophical activities and the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought.

Ist das menschliche Handeln vorbestimmt oder kann der Einzelne frei entscheiden?

A history of English georgic writing – literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments – from 1500 to the present.

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf provides a sustained challenge to the prevailing view that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism.

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France.

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Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Philologos" verfügbar.

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.

This book provides fascinating studies of English religious men and women through their reading and writing during the turbulent period of the Dissolution.

At the dawn of the Renaissance, Liber Catulli was difficult to read not only for the text but also for the arrangement of the poems: few were identified, even less had titles or graphical devices to mark them.

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Amores, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Amores 2.

Die »Metaphysik« des Aristoteles (384–322 v.

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment.

Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology.

This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions.

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

Die literatur- und kulturhistorischen Umwälzungen, die im 12.

This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.