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Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient...
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Pelican
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2015-01-29
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The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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This groundbreaking book attempts a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s BC. It argues that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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A History of Roman Art provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject from the founding of Rome to the rule of Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine. Incorporating the most up-to-date information available on the topic, this new textbook explores the creation, use,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-12-16
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This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin’s poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and...
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Springer
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2014-12-08
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The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Poesis artificiosa was known in the literary heritage of ancient Greeks and Romans, and in the Far and Middle East. Its tradition was preserved in the Middle Ages and practiced later.Poesis artificiosa gained an unprecedented popularity in the Baroque – a period most...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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How did ancient Egyptians define “art”—and how did the myriad of artistic works they produced mirror their worldview? A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-12-01
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Band 19 des Jahrbuchs SYMBOLON dokumentiert Vorträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, die bei den Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung e. V. 2009–2011 in Ludwigshafen/Rhein und Frankfurt/Main gehalten wurden. Folgende Themenkreise...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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Die Abtönungspartikeln sind in der deutschen Sprache allgegenwärtig. Sie haben einen hohen kulturspezifischen Wert und erfüllen wichtige kommunikative Funktionen. Deutsche Muttersprachler verwenden sie ebenso häufig wie unbewusst. Schon seit den 1960er Jahren erforschen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers an invaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides, with a strong emphasis on comparing and contrasting different traditions of reading and interpretation. • Presents an in-depth, comprehensive overview of the reception...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-28
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Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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Der Sammelband legt seinen Fokus auf Körper und Korpora der Romania. Er schlägt somit eine Brücke zwischen der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit dem menschlichen Leib in seiner kulturellen sowie literarischen Relevanz und der Untersuchung von Textsammlungen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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The trend in the scholarship of Luke has been that of presenting Luke as being interested in the survival of Christianity within the Power apparatus of the Roman world. To achieve this pivotal aim, he seems to overlook the abysmal social maladies and wrongdoings of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-27
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A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-15
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In der neutestamentlichen Forschung hat die allgemein wahrgenommene Uneinheitlichkeit des Textes des Johannesprologs zu der communis opinio geführt, dass er aus der Überarbeitung eines vorgegebenen – ansonsten unbekannten – «Logos-Hymnus» entstanden sein müsse. Von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-06
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Wer erzählt die Metamorphosen? Gibt es nur einen Erzähler? Muss man überhaupt zwischen Autor und Erzähler trennen? Und ist die Haltung des Erzählers nun distanziert-ironisch oder fromm-naiv? Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert mittels aktueller narratologischer und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-06-10
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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