This is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than 800 letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond.
"The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has sur…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "This volume joins together in English for the first time the two editions of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan's classic account of the monuments and environs of precolonial Delhi. Translator Rana Safvi's annotations and appendices trace the historical developme…
"Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in re…
"Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in re…
"Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in re…
Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important study, comprising 26 essays by leading …
Dieser Band präsentiert erstmals den zwischen 1939 und 1975 geführten Briefwechsel zwischen Hannah Arendt und Günther Anders sowie gemeinsam verfasste oder in thematischer Nähe zueinander entstandene Texte. Diese erhellen die persönliche und intellektuelle Beziehung des einstige…
Dieser Band präsentiert erstmals den zwischen 1939 und 1975 geführten Briefwechsel zwischen Hannah Arendt und Günther Anders sowie gemeinsam verfasste oder in thematischer Nähe zueinander entstandene Texte. Diese erhellen die persönliche und intellektuelle Beziehung des einstige…