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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-05
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'If something else can capture your attention
Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.'
This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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'If something else can capture your attention
Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.'
This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Discover the power of Greek lyric with essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field today Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, resulting in this topic becoming one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. In A...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-05-03
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Cicero's dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in society and the importance of honorable statesmanship for the preservation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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Mythologie ist spannender als jeder Krimi, grausamer als jeder Horrorfilm und leidenschaftlicher als jeder Liebesroman! Wie hieß er doch noch gleich, der Meeresgott bei den Griechen? Was waren bloß die zehn Aufgaben des Herkules? Antworten auf solch typische Fragen nach...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2022-03-21
Collection :
Für Dummies
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Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-27
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Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-27
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Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it.Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Dante's Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the 'Commedia' questions the familiar narrative arc at play in the writings of Dante Alighieri and opens his masterpiece to three alternative models that resist it.Dante's masterplot is the teleological trajectory by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance ofTony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance ofTony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-30
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Die Publikation analysiert die Konstruktivität von verführerischer Weiblichkeit in Texten aus der Romantik, dem Fin de Siècle sowie der Literatur und dem Kino des 20. Jahrhunderts als Projektion eines Betrachters, der, ähnlich der ovidischen Sagengestalt Narziss, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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