Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years.
Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course.
Der Ergänzungsband zum Supplementum Hellenisticum, das 1983 von Hugh Lloyd-Jones und Peter Parsons herausgegeben wurde, präsentiert neues Material aus Papyri sowie eine Reihe neuer Vorschläge zu den Texten und ihren Bedeutungen.
If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then 'polemic' is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media.
This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined.
A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy.
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism.
Greek poet Hesiod's canonical archaic text, the Works and Days, was performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied.
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics.
A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.
This book suggests that the Old English epic Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him.
Die Arbeit macht zum ersten Mal die ganze Breite der frühen Sophoklesrezeption fassbar: Ein großes Spektrum an Gattungen und Autoren bezieht sich bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten, aber auch im weiteren Verlauf der Antike auf diesen athenischen Tragödiendichter.
Statius' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fascinated generations of scholars and readers.
Nirgends sonst hat sich Platon den mit seiner Ideenlehre gegebenen Problemen so ausführlich und ausdrücklich gestellt wie in diesem Dialog, über den in der Forschung seit Jahrzehnten kontrovers diskutiert wird und der immer wieder als Dokument einer Krise in seinem Denken gedeutet worden ist.
Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them.