Biographical note: Matthias Schöndube, Bonn.
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Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine eingehende Analyse der Episode um den Satyrn und Dionysos-Liebling Ampelos, die Nonnos von Panopolis (5. Jh. n. Chr.) in den Büchern zehn, elf und zwölf der Dionysiaka, dem letzten griechischen Epos der Antik. Die Ampelos-Episode ist eine Schlüs…
Main description: This study examines the radical critique of wealth and moneymaking that permeates Plato's works from the early dialogues to the Republic and the Laws. The author shows that Plato's position on wealth should not be ascribed to aristocratic prejudices, but instea…
Biographical note: Ulrike Jansen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften,Berlin. Die "Spuria Macri" sind 20 dem "Macer Floridus" hinzugedichtete Kapitel in 487 Hexametern über pflanzliche, tierische und mineralische Heilmittel. Untersucht werden Sprache, Quellen un…
Biographical note: Stavros Tsitsiridis, Universität Patras, Griechenland. In Antiquity Klearchos of Soloi enjoyed a reputation as a first-class peripatetic. However, mainstream modern research has not yet given him due credit. This work contributes to a better understanding of …
Biographical note: Laura Miguélez-Cavero, University of Salamanca, Spain. This work offers an updated commentary of Triphiodorus' Sack of Troy, furnished with a thorough introduction. The reliable and long-lasting companion fills a gap in the scholarship on Imperial epic, givin…
Introduzione; 1 Intersezioni fra teatro e oratoria prima di Quintiliano; 1.1 Oratoria e recitazione: due arti affini; 1.2 A scuola di recitazione; 1.3 Teatro e retorica a Roma: un rapporto controverso; 2 Didattica della voce; 2.1 Pronuntiatio; 2.2 Età prescolare; 2.3 Il paedagog…
This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem's relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature,…
This work re-examines Juvenal's big fish satire through detailed scholarly commentary. It includes the original text along with a new Italian translation. Santorelli demonstrates that Juvenal's satire not only looks back at the earlier period of Domitian's rule but also is inten…
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called 'major Homeric Hymns', but is…
This is the first systematic study of Greek classicism, a crucial element of Graeco-Roman culture under Augustus, from the perspective of cultural identity: what vision of the world and their own role in it motivated Greek and Roman intellectuals to commit themselves to reliving…
Main description: This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle's De Interpretatione and its psychological background in hisDe Anima. The study develops in three steps that correspond to the three elements involved in every notion of signification: (1)…
This volume is the first commentary dedicated exclusively to Juvenal's 11th Satire. The introduction deals with problems like the unity of the poem, the relationship with its models, and the influence of the Roman moralistic tradition. The commentary examines the satire extensiv…
Biographical note: S. Seibert, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Das Buch zeigt, wie Ovid sein Exil literarisch verarbeitet. Es entsteht das Selbstbild eines souveränen Dichters, dessen individualistische Züge fast schon modern anmuten. Die Figuren des Mythos bilden ein Vergl…
Biographical note: E. Lefèvre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Es ist eine Hauptaufgabe der Forschung über die Römische Komödie, ihre Originalität gegenüber den (verlorenen) griechischen Vorbildern herauszustellen. In 30 Abhandlungen aus den Jahren 1973-2013, von denen 10 …
Biographical note: Renate Burri, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Although Ptolemy's Geography has attracted considerable interest among researchers in recent years, our understanding of its origins remains fragmented and unsatisfying. The present volume taps into the heretofore…
Biographical note: Michael Schramm, Universität Leipzig. Dies ist die erste Studie zur Freundschaft im Neuplatonismus. Anhand von Einzeluntersuchungen zu Plotin, Iamblich, Themistios und Kaiser Julian wird nachgewiesen, dass Freundschaft der Zentralbegriff der neuplatonischen p…