What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation ? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifyin…
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The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immoralit…
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immoralit…
The first major study of politeness in Ancient Greece and Rome, introducing the linguistic framework and showcasing a range of methods, topics, and genres. The individual chapters focus on canonical authors as well as on under-studied texts by ancient scholars and court proceedi…
"This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food, or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, and this view is a legacy from the Romans, so it is curious that Roman …
Cover; Title pages; Inhalt; Einleitung Josef WiesehÃœfer und Sabine MÃơller; I Ã#x9C;berlegungen zu Apollodoros von Artemita und Isidoros von Charax; Greeks in the Arsacid Empire Marek Jan Olbrycht; Strabon aus Amaseia und Apollodoros aus Artemita Johannes Engels; Apollodorus of…
Established in the third century BC, the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Arsacid Empire became Rome?s major opponent in the East from the first century BC to its end in the third century AD. According to a Roman idea, the orbis was evenly divided between the Parthians and the R…
Established in the third century BC, the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Arsacid Empire became Rome?s major opponent in the East from the first century BC to its end in the third century AD. According to a Roman idea, the orbis was evenly divided between the Parthians and the R…
