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Hellenistic Bookhands

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Main description: Hellenistic Bookhands dokumentiert die Entwicklung der für antike griechische Buchrollen verwendeten Schrift. An 94 griechischen Papyrustexten aus Ägypten und aus Herculaneum werden die stilistischen Eigenheiten der verschiedenen Schrifttypen herausgearbeitet, …

Tradition und Erneuerung: Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier

fromBeiträge zur Altertumskunde

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Biographical note: Norbert Kramer und Christiane Reitz, Universität Rostock.

Zeitenwende: Aufsätze zur Spätantike

by Demandt, Alexander

fromBeiträge zur Altertumskunde

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Main description: The dissolution of the Roman Empire and the end of ancient civilization constitute European history's most profound crisis. Over the centuries, this crisis has often inspired explanatory attempts and comparisons with more recent times. The essays presented in t…

Vita Homeri Herodotea: Textgeschichte, Edition, Übersetzung

by Vasiloudi, Maria

fromBeiträge zur Altertumskunde

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Biographical note: Maria Vasiloudi, Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken. Die unter dem Namen Herodots überlieferte Vita Homeri stellt die umfangreichste antike Homerbiographie dar. Die Arbeit legt eine neue kritische Ausgabe mit deutscher Übersetzung vor. Erstmals wurden all…

Die Konzeption des "noein" bei Parmenides von Elea

by Marcinkowska-Rosól, Maria

fromStudia praesocratica

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Maria Marcinkowska-Rosól provides the first detailed study of the conception of thought and knowledge in the didactic poem by Parmenides of Elea, one of the most important early Greek philosophers (6th-5th cent. BC). She succeeds in providing convincing answers to some of the ce…

Thales von Milet in der frühen christlichen Literatur: Darstellungen seiner Figur und seiner Ideen in de…

by Schwab, Andreas

fromStudia praesocratica

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Main description: Thales von Milet (7.-6. Jh. v. Chr.) gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Figuren der griechischen Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Dennoch sind von seinem Lebennur wenigeAnekdoten bekannt und von seinem Werk ist nichts direkt überliefert. Durch seine Untersuchung ersc…

Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetori…

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Biographical note: Phillip Mitsis, New York University, USA, and Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category

by Cornelli, Gabriele

fromStudia praesocratica

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Main description: The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations. This observation directs this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological approach, setting out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition …

Flavian Epic Interactions

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Biographical note: Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK; Astrid Voigt, Open University, UK. Main description: This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman l…

Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus

by Manolaraki, Eleni

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Main description: What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and…

Geschichte der römischen Literatur: von Andronicus bis Boethius und ihr Fortwirken

by Albrecht, Michael von

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Main description: This volume, which has now been published in eight languages, is probably the last work by a single author that provides an overview of all Latin literature, from its beginnings to Boethius. 'Literature' is understood in the ancient sense, that is it also inclu…

Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium

fromByzantinisches Archiv

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Biographical note: Sergei Mariev, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany; Wiebke-Marie Stock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. In comparisonwith the wave of research dedicated to the aesthetics of the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantine aesthetics must be considered a…

Plato's "Sophist" Revisited

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Main description: This book consists of a selection of papers which bring new light on the old problems of one of Plato's most difficult dialogues. The first range of papers deal with the definitions of sophistry from different perspectives (T. Robinson, F. Casadesús, J. Monserr…

The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta's Cento "Medea" and Its Tradition

by Rondholz, Anke

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Thecento-tragedy Medea usually attributed to Hosidius Geta was transmitted in the Codex Salmasianus (now Codex Parisinus 10318). This is a comprehensive study and reevaluation of the text against the background of the ancient cento tradition, also providing a new English transla…

Peristyl und Polis: Entwicklung und Funktionen öffentlicher griechisc…

by Emme, Burkhard

fromUrban Spaces

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Peristylbauten öffentlicher Funktion waren Bestandteil jeder griechischen Stadt. Mit diesem Band wird die Bauform erstmals umfassend untersucht. Die Rekonstruktion, Datierung und Deutung der Bauten wird kritisch hinterfragt. Zugleich wird die Frage nach dem wechselseitigen Verhä…

On Pythagoreanism

fromStudia praesocratica

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Biographical note: G. Cornelli, University of Brasília;R. McKirahan, Pomona College, Claremont CA; C. Macris, CNRS Paris. Recent scholarship has shown that no single methodology offers a satisfactory overall interpretation of Pythagoreanism. The conference "On Pythagoreanism," …

The Shaping of Narrative in Polybius

by Miltsios, Nikos

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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In his attempt to explain Rome's rise to world power, Polybius composed a carefully structured narrative. Yet, despite its sophistication, Polybius' narrative artistry has received little scholarly attention. This study is the first book-length narratological analysis of the His…

Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

by Worthington, Martin

fromStudies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)

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Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact's far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields, it outlines a framework for the critical evaluation of extan…

Herrschaftsräume und Herrschaftswissen ägyptischer Lokalregenten: Soziokulturelle Interaktionen zur Machtkonsolidie…

by Moje, Jan

fromTopoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berline…

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During the 8th century BC, power gradually shifted from the central government to local rulers, who had nearly autonomous control over their areas of dominion. This study assembles for the first time all known sources regarding this period and analyzes them with respect to their…