How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of master and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancie…
"Diese Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Epoche (1000-300 v. Chr.) die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber und ihren Wandel in diesen drei Epochen heraus sowieden grundsätzlic…
"This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their live…