In seinem Bürgerkriegsepos fiktionalisiert Lucan den historischen Stoff in einer intensiven literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Vorgängern, die bisher meist anhand seines Verhältnisses zur Geschichtsschreibung und zur römischen Epik untersucht worden ist.
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
Anders Cullhed's study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality.
Historically speaking, the majority of efforts in the study of ancient Greek physics have traditionally been devoted either to the analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Presocratic philosophers or to the systematic examination of the Platonic and the Aristotelian oeuvre.
Die Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber, ihren Wandel in der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Zeit (1000–300 v.
The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer's Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC.
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement.
Beinahe zeitgleich mit der im November 1913 eröffneten Ausstellung der Funde von Tell el-Amarna im Berliner Ägyptischen Museum erschien Die Plastik der Aegypter von Hedwig Fechheimer (1871-1942).
Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry.
