In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic.
A succinct presentation of the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and whyFor more than a millennium, Sufism has been the core of the spiritual experience of countless Muslims.
This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and understanding of how this technique is used in such con-texts of both Greek and Roman oratory.
Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious.
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship.
Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking.
Das Symposion wirkte als soziales Ereignis im antiken Griechenland auf viele unterschiedliche Lebensbereiche und beeinflusste Politik, Kunst, Philosophie und Religion.
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.
Obschon der römische Hexameter in vielen Aspekten gründlich untersucht scheint, fehlt es zum einen noch an einer datenbasierten Grundlegung in einigen Bereichen, zum anderen sind manche Fragen, denen man sich inzwischen durch statistische Methoden nähern kann, noch nicht diskutiert worden.
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.
Obwohl es in der bisherigen Nietzscheforschung detaillierte Untersuchungen separater Aspekte von Nietzsches Homerdeutung während der Leipziger und Baseler Periode gibt, fehlt ein Überblick über die gesamte Perspektive von Nietzsches philologischen und philosophischen Beschäftigungen mit Homer.
Der vierte Band der vierbändigen Ausgabe der »Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta« bietet alle bekannten Fragmente, die für die Tragödien und Praetexten des Accius überliefert sind, in der als wahrscheinlich zu konstituierenden Textfassung.
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.
Der Band bietet die Ergebnisse zweier internationaler Symposien, die das von der Union der Akademien geförderte Forschungsvorhaben "Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie" (KomFrag), das derzeit das Bild über die griechische Komödie verändert und erweitert, und die Plautus-Forschung zusammengeführt haben.
Das Symposion wirkte als soziales Ereignis im antiken Griechenland auf viele unterschiedliche Lebensbereiche und beeinflusste Politik, Kunst, Philosophie und Religion.
Der dritte Band der vierbändigen Ausgabe der »Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta« bietet alle bekannten Fragmente, die für die Tragödien und die Praetexta des Pacuvius überliefert sind, in der als wahrscheinlich zu konstituierenden Textfassung.
Recentering the Sufi Shrine is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan.
Building on Calvino's observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone.
This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.
This is the second of three volumes of the series "Fragmenta Comica" devoted to Pherecrates (2nd half of the 5th century BCE), a major representative of Old Comedy and contemporary of Aristophanes.
Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass die Architektur des Nibelungenlieds zwar inhaltlich fest, doch sprachlich sehr variant ist, ordnet vorliegende Studie dieses Werk weder als Produkt mündlicher Epik noch als Folge von Abschreibeprozessen eines "Originals" ein.
This book opens before us the doors of the world of literature in a dazzling way, as the poem is not just words, but rather it merges the heritage of the past and the poet's awareness in an elaborate and serial way.
This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.
This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to advocate for their colonization through the affirmation of Christian supremacy.
Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general.