Lustrum Band 64, eine Fortsetzung der Lustrum-Bände 54 (2012), 56 (2014) und 61 (2019), bietet ein weiteres großes Kapitel des Forschungsberichtes von Edzard Visser (Basel) zu Homer 1977-2000: In Kapitel IX gibt Edzard Visser jetzt einen ebenso gründlichen wie gehaltvollen Überblick über "Homerische Darstellungsformen und Erzähltechnik", in dem er die Forschungsliteratur aus Narratologie und Intertextualität sowie zu Zeitdarstellungen, "Beinahe-Szenen", psychologischen Aspekten der Darstellung sowie "typischen Szenen", Katalogdichtung, Ekphrasis und Gleichnissen (um nur einige Darstellungsmodi zu nennen) äußerst kenntnisreich vorstellt und bespricht.
The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the mester de clerecia.
Key aspects of philhellenism - political self-determination, freedom, beauty, individual greatness - originate in antiquity and present a complex reception history.
Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation and synthesis of medieval authorial roles.
In 'Iphigenie auf Tauris: Ein Schauspiel' von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wird die Geschichte der Prinzessin Iphigenie erzählt, die von den Göttern gerettet und auf der Insel Tauris gebracht wurde.
Although the recent 'memory boom' has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics.
The first group of essays in this volume explores the links between early Norse literature, from the 9th to the 13th century, and the learned world of medieval Europe.
Kyrill von Alexandriens vermutlich erste Schrift, der Dialog "Über Anbetung und Verehrung in Geist und Wahrheit" bietet eine ethisch-moralische Anleitung für ein christliches Leben, die aus der Exegese ausgewählter Passagen aus dem Pentateuch hergeleitet wird.
Die Arbeiten Udo Friedrichs haben in den kulturwissenschaftlichen und erzähltheoretischen ‚turns‘ der mediävistischen Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten entscheidende Impulse gesetzt.
Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts - or lack thereof.
The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the mester de clerecia.
At the dawn of the Renaissance, Liber Catulli was difficult to read not only for the text but also for the arrangement of the poems: few were identified, even less had titles or graphical devices to mark them.
This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans' 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on the trilogy in recent years.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Ode on a Grecian Urn (Complete Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstatt-Munchen Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt in March 2012.
In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's literary career in its rich context.
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.
Der Band untersucht Figuren der Wende sowohl in ihren kulturellen Ausprägungen und historischen Entwicklungen als auch in ihren poetologischen Konfigurationen.
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right.
Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.
Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully appreciate the work of this fascinating, complex and surprisingly modern writer.
The world portrayed by ancient declamation is often thought to be timeless; but it was in fact deeply rooted in the historical texture of the Roman Empire.
Although the recent 'memory boom' has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics.
