Review text: "Die stets sorgfältig abgewogenen Urteile von S. tragen das Ihre dazu bei, dem Buch Vorbildcharakter zuzuweisen. Auch aus allgemeinhistorischer Sicht kann die Lektüre daher nur nachdrücklich empfohlen werden."Andrea Jördens in: Gnomon 8/2009.
Review text: "Das Buch ist mit viel Elan und mit großer Begeisterung geschrieben und trotz der Schwierigkeit der Materie für den hier eingearbeiteten Leser gut verständlich. Besonders hervorgehoben sei noch die Vielseitigkeit des Autors, der neben einer Fülle von plautinischen B…
Main description: Lucan's epic on the civil war that ended the Republic was written in the Early Empire, under Nero, a hundred years after the events it narrates. Book 4 focuses on two major campaigns out of Italy, first in Spain, then in Africa. Paolo Asso's commentary privileg…
Review text: "Altogether, the reader is justified in feeling that he has come to a better knowledge of the books, beliefs, and rites of Orphism, of the Christian apologists and their encounter with Greek religion and ideas, and of the specific texts discussed here. He has found,…
Main description: The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler …
Biographical note: Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Biographical note: Christos C. Tsagalis, University of Athens, Greece.
Main description: In the Middle Ages, imaginative re-use was made of architectural components from classical antiquity such as columns, capitals, cornices, and even statues, sarcophagi, reliefs and inscriptions; the motives ranged from simple utilisation of materials through int…
Main description: The Homeric Questions of the philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent. CE) is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism. Porphyry applies the dictum that "the poet explains himself" to solve questions of interpretation in Homer. This new edition of the Questi…
Review text: "To this reviewer, the volume as a whole represents a major contribution to the cultural study of ancient sciences, which is only beginning to receive proper attention. The volume is well produced, and has extensive indices to help the reader."Xianhua Wang in: BMCR …
Main description: This volume is the product of an international congress held at the University of Bamberg by the graduate school Generation Consciousness and Generation Conflict in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The contributions look at how it was possible for charismatic sol…
Main description: Present-day research is gradually finding a new approach to Isocrates, the 4th-century Greek orator who due to the influence of Plato was largely neglected in the 19th and part of the 20th century. His Euagoras, an encomium of the Cypriot king Euagoras I, had a…
