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The Medieval Classic considers how ancient and medieval commentaries on the Aeneid by Servius, Fulgentius, Bernard Silvestris, and others can give us new insights into four twelfth-century Latin epics -- the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter, the Alexandreis by Walter of...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-03-14
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Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy. In Atomism in the Aeneid, Matthew M. Gorey...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-03-02
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Seit seiner Genese vor mehr als 2000 Jahren gehört das vielfältige Werk Ovids zu den einflussreichsten der europäischen Literatur. Das vorliegende Handbuch will einen ebenso sachlich-informierenden wie theoretisch-orientierenden Einblick in das Œuvre Ovids, die Wege...
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J.B. Metzler
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2021-02-14
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The woman's role in society has often been undervalued and relegated to the background. Even though opportunities are increasingly made available for women in society, they are still at a great disadvantage. Years of thorough research have revealed how providing...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Plat?n establishes the principle that literature should cut through the notion of an ideal truth rather than be used as a vehicle for subjective visions and aesthetic tropes by those claiming to be ‘artists.’ To engage with this centrality of human consciousness means...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-11-13
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Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold that Lucretius disagreed with Ennius' quasi-Pythagorean claim to be Homer reborn, and so uniquely qualified to...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-11-08
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The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.
Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.
Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-13
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Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-13
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This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as ‘transaction cost engineers’ as well as comparison of teaching law in a refugee camp and in a Malaysian...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-05
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This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-29
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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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Half a dozen authors quote a total of over forty extracts from Pliny’s Natural History that are absent from our manuscripts of Pliny. These extracts have been virtually ignored by scholars, and never studied systematically. This book demonstrates that the half-dozen...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-08
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Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung des Zentrums für Osteuropa-Studien an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, in denen aus fachlich sehr verschiedenen Perspektiven Geschlechterrollen im östlichen Europa in den Blick genommen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-08-07
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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalam) and jurisprudence (u?ul al-fiqh) from the tenth through the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-13
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