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Die Mitleidsindustrie
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 18.33Hauptbeschreibung Aktueller könnte das Thema kaum sein. Wenn Hilfsorganisationen zum Spenden auffordern, folgen wir ihrem Ruf nur allzu bereitwillig. Rund 2 Millionen Euro spenden allein die Deutschen jedes Jahr. Doch wissen wir immer, was mit diesem Geld geschieht? Bewirkt es wirklich, was wir damit bezwecken? Wie entscheiden humanitäre Helfer,... more...
Ancient Letters
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 139.99The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable subject. They offer us a unique insight into ancient... more...
Declinatio
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1974; US$ 158.00Marcus Terentius Varro (116?27 B.C.) was one of the most prolific writers in antiquity. However, of his De Lingua Latina only six of 25 books have survived, and these are neither complete nor free of textual corruption. This study is an attempt to provide an adequate, consistent, and comprehensive account of the linguistic theory with which Varro... more...
Defence Speeches
Oxford University Press, UK 2001; US$ 8.99This volume presents five of Cicero's most famous defence speeches: of Roscius, accused of murder; of Murena, accused of bribery; of Archias, on a citizenship charge; of Caelius, accused of violence; and of Milo, accused of murdering Cicero's hated enemy Clodius. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy and introductions and... more...
The Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95Apuleius' Metamorphoses is probably best known as the literary source for the myth of Eros and Psyche and as a primary source of information about mystery religions in the ancient world. There is another realm of the Metamorphoses which has, until now, received relatively little attention - namely, the many dreams found within it. The Religious... more...
Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 48.99This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the Critique of Judgement, remains of fundamental importance for the modern critic. He argues that the Kantian 'judgement of taste' is not formalist,... more...
Recognizing Persius
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 52.50Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus --or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic... more...
Von Kriegsverächtern und Kriegsverfechtern
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99Brill's Companion to Lucan
BRILL 2011; US$ 247.00The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan?s poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times. more...
The Sixteen Satires
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailablePerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55?138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning... more...









