Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years.

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In the context of the simple, enjoyable and unconscious presentation, the writer presents the main landmarks of Sufism, and moves us from the nature of Sufism as a human sign, to the distinction between the many meanings of its meaning, to the difference between him and the forms of Sufism in other religions, and defined its methods, doctrines, literature and other outlets with an impact in this field.

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644-1911), the last empire of China.

This book serves as a link between the studies of the author Taha Abdul Baqi Surur on Sufism.

Was steckt wirklich hinter der faszinierenden Geschichte von Moses und der 40-jährigen Wanderung des Volkes Israel?

Camelot – ein Symbol für Gerechtigkeit, Idealismus und Einheit.

This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life.

This concise book is an ideal introduction to Homer the poet and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle.

The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations.

Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here.

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy.

In der römischen Komödie gestaltet der Figurentypus des intriganten Sklaven sein Intrigenspiel aus einer gesellschaftlich untergeordneten Position heraus mit einer dichterischen Schaffenskraft und setzt sich sowohl mit seinem poetischen als auch gesellschaftlichen Handlungsrahmen auseinander.

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.

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ';Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel' (ssu ta ch'i-shu).

One of the most well-known potential forgeries is SG-65 Kleines Schulerloch, which has provoked controversies and debates among scientists of various disciplines since its discovery.

Lukian von Samosata, ein scharfsinniger Satiriker und mutiger Denker des 2.

Die Studie bietet eine umfassende Analyse der lange Zeit unterschätzten und nur wenig untersuchten Darstellungsweise in den Antiquitates Romanae des Dionysios von Halikarnass.

The words of the prophet Ezekiel, forged in the crucible of the Babylonian captivity, continue to resonate, offering profound insights in times of upheaval.

Hesiod's concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths - Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc.

Schota Rustaweli, Autor des unvergänglichen Meisterwerks Der Ritter im Pantherfell, gilt als einer der größten Dichter der georgischen Kulturgeschichte.

The Old Testament holds few moments as dramatic as the era of the prophet Jeremiah.

This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des frühen Christentums und entdecken Sie eine der bemerkenswertesten apokryphen Schriften: Das Armenische Kindheitsevangelium.

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English stage.

Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place.

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In The History of Archaic Rome, Dionysius purposely viewed Roman history as an embodiment of all that was best in Greek culture.

First Published in 1934, this book gives a general survey of the history of classical Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle.

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities.

Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray's death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet.

This book marks a significant contribution to the debate around Ibn ?