"The essays in this volume present new insights into the far-reaching influence of an early oral culture on subsequent development after the spread of literacy. At the outset, revisionist essays on the Homeric epics examine such questions as historical memory, Homer's audience(s…
A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psycholo…
A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psycholo…
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
""In the Greek romances, "" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male."" Explor…
"In the Greek romances," writes David Konstan, "sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male." Exploring h…
How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious ta…
"How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious t…
Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales offer a unique opportunity to examine how an educated man of the Second Century CE came to terms with illness. The experiences portrayed in the Tales disclose an understanding of illness in both religious and medical terms. Aristides was a devout w…
This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men.
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, the author provides a comprehensive sourcebook and int…
This volume presents the papers given at the first Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity.
