Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford''s leading study was Cl…
Anders als die meisten anderen spätantiken Bibeldichtungen weist die Alethia des Claudius Marius Victorius neben Einflüssen aus dem paganen Epos starke Bezüge zum Lehrgedicht und speziell zu Lukrez auf. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht erstmals systematisch, in welchem Verhältn…
Each letter of the 27-letter Greek alphabet gets its own tabbed chapter, like a dictionary. Chapters open with a graphic illustrating the meaning of the letter, its name, pronunciation, and meaning. Next, words beginning with that letter demonstrate how the meaning of the letter…
Bisher sah die Forschung in Diodor einen Autor von schlichtem Geist und ebensolcher Arbeitstechnik, gerade gut genug, verlorene Geschichtswerke des Hellenismus zu rekonstruieren. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt aber einen durchaus ernsthaften Historiographen, der seiner „Universalg…
'I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.' The resonant opening lines of Virgil's 'Aeneid' rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been pas…
"In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus, David Goldstein offers the first theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the long-standing belief that Greek word order is "free" or beyond the reach of systematic analysi…
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the bi…
The Epigrammata Bobiensia are a collection of 71 poems, written between the fourth and fifth century d.C. in a cultural milieu of educated pagans associated with Symmachus, but gravitating toward Ausonius. The absence of polemical accents and the choice for balanced expressions …
This volume addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and primarily focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution. The papers that make up the collection consider current approaches to q…
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of pragmatic research in classical Sanskrit concentrating on linguistic politeness. The four case studies it comprises are in essence empirical, and try to accurately describe a fairly limited number of interactions between an…
In Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety Saskia Peels elucidates the semantics of the Ancient Greek adjective hosios and its cognates. Traditionally rendered as ¿́¿piety¿́¿, hosios was a key notion in Classical Greek religion and reflected a core value in Athenian democracy. Sin…
"In HOSIOS -- A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, Saskia Peels elucidates the semantics of the Ancient Greek adjective hosios and its cognates."--Provided by publisher
