Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.
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.
Der Althistoriker Christian Meier als Begleiter und Kommentator der Europäischen Geschichte Christian Meier ist einer der bekanntesten Fachvertreter der Alten Geschichte mit populär gewordenen Büchern über Caesar (1982) oder Athen (1993).
This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies.
This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies.
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes.
This volume presents Ralph Waldo Emerson's engagement with diverse philosophical traditions with the concurrent aim of showing the contemporary relevance of his Transcendentalism.
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine.
In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible.
Die letzten drei Bucher von Silius Italicus' Punica wurden von der Klassischen Philologie bisher weniger beachtet; keines von ihnen wurde bis dato in einem modernen Einzelkommentar erschlossen.
Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt erstmals die typologisierte Literatursprache der in der Forschung bisher wenig beachteten adulescentes in einem diachronen und gattungsubergreifenden Uberblick dar.
