Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire.
This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and their impact on the field of Classics, classroom instruction, and community outreach.
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes.
Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.
Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.
Heinz Mosmanns umfassende Studie zu Wolframs "Parzival" erschließt systematisch die rätselhafte Bilderwelt dieses großartigen mittelalterlichen Epos und führt dabei an die Grenzen eines imaginativen Verständnisses des Gralsgeheimnisses heran.
Der italienische Humanist und Historiker Paolo Giovio schuf mit seinen Elogia virorum literis illustrium (1546) eine faszinierende Sammlung an Kurz-Biographien berühmter zeitgenössischer Gelehrter, die nicht nur aufgrund ihrer Fülle an anekdotischen Informationen zu Größen wie Giovanni Boccaccio, Angelo Poliziano oder Thomas Morus beeindrucken.
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes.
Der italienische Humanist und Historiker Paolo Giovio schuf mit seinen Elogia virorum literis illustrium (1546) eine faszinierende Sammlung an Kurz-Biographien berühmter zeitgenössischer Gelehrter, die nicht nur aufgrund ihrer Fülle an anekdotischen Informationen zu Größen wie Giovanni Boccaccio, Angelo Poliziano oder Thomas Morus beeindrucken.
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War.
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic-rather than historical-approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternization, as well as their meaningful diversity.
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic-rather than historical-approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternization, as well as their meaningful diversity.
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War.
