Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from anc…
Paulinus von Nola steht heute im Schatten verschiedener Zeitgenossen, die ihn im Laufe der Jahrhunderte an Bekanntheit überrundet haben. Doch zu Lebzeiten suchten Autoritäten wie Augustinus von Hippo, Ambrosius von Mailand und Hieronymus den Kontakt zu dem gallorömischen Aristok…
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This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. Th…
"Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome's most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune on parties with …
"With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (see below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the …
Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the col…
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its…
by Ammianus Marcellinus, Hamilton, Walter
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