Biographical note: Th. Kuhn, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Die noch immer wenig erforschten Gedichte Gregors von Nazianz verbinden in bemerkenswerter Weise jüdisch-christliche Gedankenwelt und griechisch-pagane Dichtungstraditionen. In diesem Buch wird das Doppelgedicht "…
The little-researched poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus reflects a remarkable interweaving of Judeo-Christian thought and the Greek-Pagan poetic tradition. This book includes a bilingual edition and analysis of the imagery in the double-poem "On Silence During Lent" (Carm. II,1,34A…
Philosophy and rhetoric became integral elements of Athenian culture. This development was accompanied by a critical discourse that questioned their educational use and warned of its dire consequences for peaceful coexistence in the polis. This study provides the first detailed …
The widespread notion that Romans hated monarchy (odium regni) ever since the beginning of the Republic runs counter to the many positive connotations they attributed to reges and regnum. This study takes this contradiction as its point of departure and shows how Romans could co…
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most importan…
In celebration of the reopening of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection at the 'Neues Museum, ' this volume presents editions of previously unpublished Greek and Latin literary texts of the Berlin papyrus collection. Numerous papyrologists from …
Byzantine intellectuals not only had direct access to Neoplatonic sources in the original language but also, at times, showed a particular interest in them. During the Early Byzantine period Platonism significantly contributed to the development of Christian doctrines and, parad…
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…
G. Steindorff gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der Ägyptologie im 20. Jh. Beispielhaft spiegelt sich in seiner Laufbahn der Wandel einer Wissenschaft, deren Vertreter im Spannungsverhältnis dramatischer Zeitgeschehnisse standen. Die Aufarbeitung seines Briefnachlasses gi…
Biographical note: Francesco Montarese, Mander Portman Woodward Colleges, London, UK.
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Taking their point of departure from Frederick Ahl's pioneering work, the distinguished scholars in this volume have come together to re-examine the relation of poetry and power in the context of authoritarian regimes in ancient Rome and to examine the ways that poets not only c…
Despite its importance as document for political life in Athens after 402 B.C.E. and the development of Attic oratory, Lysias' 21st speech has never been the subject of an extensive scholarly commentary. The present volume fills this gap. Focusing on structural, strategic and ar…
A major, defining polarity in Euripidean drama, wisdom and folly, has never so far been the subject of a book-length study. The volume aims at filling this gap. Virtually all Euripidean characters, from gods to slaves, are subject to some aspect of folly and claim at least some …
This volume assembles scholars working on cuneiform texts from different periods, genres, and areas to examine the range of social, cultural, and historical contexts in which specific types of texts circulated. Using different methodologies and sources of evidence, these article…
This volume sheds new light on the formative phase of Scandinavian scholarship shaped by Olof Rudbeck's baroque history of the world, 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702). Through essays on Neo-Latin poetry, Norse texts and translations, mythology, botany, zoology, linguistics and or…
