Ancient Literature – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 4

John Colley
Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560

This book challenges the assumption that fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century English literature was minimally affected by the rebirth of Greek scholarship in the Italian Quattrocento. English translati…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 2

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the …

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Maria Nasioula
By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…

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Thomas Biggs,
Plautus: Poenulus

Plautus' Poenulus (or Little Carthaginian) is a staggering work. Performed in the years after Rome's traumatic struggle with Hannibal's Carthage, the comedy stages the restoration of a Carthaginian family…

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The 'Satyrica' of Petronius

This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.

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Marco Fantuzzi,
The Rhesus Ascribed to Euripides

The first detailed study of the Rhesus, ascribed to Euripides, that is not within an edition of the text, examining its authorship, history, plot, performance and themes.

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Suki Ferguson,
Astrologica

DIE GROSSEN MYTHEN UND LEGENDEN DES STERNENHIMMELSEins hatten alle Kulturen der Welt gemeinsam: Sie blickten zu den Sternen und erzählten Geschichten über die Bilder, die sie am Himmel sahen. Hinter jedem…

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Erin K Moodie,
Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly

This is the first book for a general audience about Women in the Assembly (Ekklesiazousai), whose central themes - gender, politics, theatre - still resonate today.Fed up with Athens' political dysfunctio…

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Ahuvia Kahane
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

"This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of…

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Bernardo Ballesteros
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

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Platonismus und Esoterik in der französischen Renaissance

Bibliotheca Chaldaica

Frankreich erlebt im 16. Jahrhundert ein Aufblühen des Interesses an griechischer Sprache und Literatur. Eine besondere Rolle spielt dabei der Platonismus einschließlich seiner esoterischen Spielarten wie…

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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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Manuel Reith
Die Fabel bei Horaz

Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis - Band 27

Obwohl in der Forschung wiederholt auf das Vorkommen von Fabeln in der lateinischen Literatur vor Phaedrus hingewiesen wurde, fehlt bislang eine vertiefende Untersuchung dieser Texte. Manuel Reith nimmt s…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Mischa Meier
Ein Ringen um die Zeit

Tria Cordia

Due to the widespread fear of an imminent apocalypse, the concept of time was extensively debated in the Eastern Roman Empire of the sixth century. Topics such as de-eschatologization, acceleration, retar…

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Christos C Tsagalis
The Homeric Doloneia

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad , its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not compo…

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Esther Eidinow
Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth

This study explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates the role of the body, …

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