This bilingual edition of Aristophanes's The Wasps includes an introduction, prose translation, and long-awaited German commentary. A classic work of Attic comedy, The Wasps satirizes developments in Athenian justice and politics via a generational struggle in which the son seek…
Review text: "In conclusione possiamo affermare che P. con il suo lavoro non solo ha apportato un contributo importante alla filologia menandrea, ma in generale ha prodotto un volume di cui potranno giovarsi tutti coloro che si occupano di teatro antico."Serena Pirrotta in: Bryn…
Main description: This is the first translation of the Progymnasmata of Severos of Alexandria (indentified here as Severos, Patriarch of Antioch) into a modern language, including a philological commentary and detailed essays on rhetoric and style, as well as the language.
Review text: "This is a truly rewarding, immensely erudite edition that will, one hopes, have a lasting impact not only on Manilian studies, but also on the studies of late Augustan or early imperial poetry in general."Joanna Komorowska in: BMCR 2011.08.05.
Oratoria Minora (Bibliotheca Teubneriana).
In recent years a range of formal methods of spatial analysis have been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. This volume brings together contributions from a number of specialists in archaeology, social theory, a…
In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern. Die rufschädigenden Vorwürfe werden von Cicero nach einem sich inhal…
Main description: Studien zur römischen Germanenpolitik aus vier Jahrzehnten fügen sich zu einem Gesamtbild römisch-germanischer Begegnung vom Kimbernzug bis zur frühen Kaiserzeit zusammen. Vor dem zeitgenössischen römischen Erfahrungs- und Verständnishintergrund und im Hinblick…
"This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It highlights the overwhelming mass of information about drug…
