Ancient history

The linguistic and cultural relations between the North Germanic and the Alemannic tribes are a controversial area of research with a long tradition.

This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.

For over ten years now, the interdisciplinary research group Nomen et Gens has been examining the mutual dependence of personal names and group memberships.

For many years, 260AD was seen as the dividing line between a Romanesque classical age and a Germanic early medieval period.

This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world.

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The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel.

Ab Band 13 erscheint die renommierte Buchreihe des Mediävistischen Instituts der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz bei Walter de Gruyter.

This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice.

A number of ritual texts have been handed down from the Hittite capital of Hattusha, written by authors from Kizzuwatna, a region in South-eastern Anatolia.

The commentary on Cicero’s De inventione by Grillius, the rhetor of late antiquity, was newly edited in 2002 by Rainer Jakobi.

The final work of the statesman and philosopher Boethius not only represents both a climax and the end of philosophy from Late Antiquity in Latin, but also combines numerous literary prose forms such as dialogue, satire, speeches of defence and consolation with an extraordinary wealth of lyric and metrical elements to weave a rich literary tapestry which has continually attracted new readers right up to the present day.

Die griechische Biographie der hellenistischen Zeit stellt eine Gattung dar, die trotz der Bemühungen der letzten Jahrzehnte noch immer unzureichend erschlossen ist.

Die grundsätzliche Neuinterpretation der Partitiones oratoriae erweist den kleinen Dialog als anspruchsvolles Kompendium des gesamten Systems rhetorischer Lehre und rückt ihn ins Zentrum einer spezifisch ciceronischen Konzeption der Rhetorik.

This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham.

This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.

Robert Kirstein untersucht drei Gedichte des Corpus Theocriteum, die auf Grund vermuteter Unechtheit in der Forschung des 19.

Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis zwischen spätantiker neuplatonischer Philosophie und Ästhetik und nach seinen historisch-kulturellen Verwandlungsgestalten.

Die Epigramme bilden das dritte große Teilstück des überlieferten Werks des C.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Plautus-Interpretation steht die Besonderheit Plautinischer Dramaturgie, die von der Autorin auf der Grundlage eines methodisch neuen Ansatzes erarbeitet wird.