This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways.
The purpose of this volume is to investigate scholastic culture in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a particular focus on ancient book and material culture as well as scholarship beyond Greek authors and the Greek language.
The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts of interpretation will always be required, especially when new research tools and methods have appeared in classical scholarship.
In der Antike diente der Brief nicht nur dem Austausch von Informationen, sondern er erfüllte darüber hinaus eine Vielzahl weiterer kommunikativer Funktionen.
This book proposes to rethink kinship in early Greek epic poetry, and argues that the depiction of parenthood as a poetic practice in epic poetry is socially motivated.
This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time.
There is no modern commentary on the whole of Valerius Maximus' Facta et dicta memorabilia, though commentaries on books 1 and 2 have been published by, respectively, David Wardle (1998) and Andrea Themann-Steinke.
Im Kern jeder intimen Begegnung, das können wir unzähligen Texten der Weltliteratur entnehmen, findet sich ein Moment des Nichtsagbaren, der die Sprache transzendierenden Liebe.
The complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly due to its fragmentary nature and the lack of a reconstruction.
Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire.
Diejenigen Kulturgüter der antiken Welt, welche die Väter des frühen Christentums nach dem Maßstab christlicher Wahrheit als nutzbar anerkannten, bezeichneten sie gern als χρήσιμα.
The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity.
In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are explained and given traction.
This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history.
Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine in ihrer Art neue Gesamtinterpretation der Darstellung der Akteure im Geschichtswerk des Livius, indem es nach ihrer konkreten Rolle in den vom Historiker nachgezeichneten großen historischen Entwicklungen fragt.
Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine in ihrer Art neue Gesamtinterpretation der Darstellung der Akteure im Geschichtswerk des Livius, indem es nach ihrer konkreten Rolle in den vom Historiker nachgezeichneten großen historischen Entwicklungen fragt.
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers.
The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals - the Lupercalia, an annual celebration of youth and sexuality by Roman men and women.
The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual's struggle as an advisor and political leader, these are the quintessential elements of 4th century rhetoric.
Petrons Satyrica, einer der maßgeblichen fiktiven Texte der antiken Literatur, stehen seit den sechziger Jahren im Brennpunkt der internationalen Forschung.
This book critically analyses classical Indian literature and explores the philosophical, literary, and cultural landscapes which have emerged in response to ancient Indian texts.
