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A Comedy of Storytelling
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 48.53Hauptbeschreibung Current interpretations of Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' cover the entire spectrum from a religious autobiography to an incongruous collection of titillating stories. The goal of this book is to explain the extraordinary polyphony of Apuleius' novel as a product of the 2nd century CE context, in which elite culture (philosophy and sophistic... more...
The Emergence of Reflexivity in Greek Language and Thought
BRILL 2012; US$ 151.00Tying together linguistics, philology and philosophy, this monograph explores the morphological and semantic development of the heavily marked reflexive system in Ancient Greek and argues that these changes are connected to a reconceptualisation of the human subject as characteristically reflexive. more...
The Shade of Homer
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 40.00This 1989 book explores the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece. more...
The Poet's Voice
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 46.00A study of ancient Greek poetry analysing the question: what is a poet? more...
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 40.00A unique perspective on the Arthurian tradition with particular focus on Geoffrey of Monmouth. more...
Der jesuitische Heroidenbrief
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 280.00Between 1514 and 1663 the genre known as Heroides, coined by Ovid, was maintained almost entirely by modern Latin poets. This book considers the period, which has up to now remained almost unheeded in the history of the genre. It looks at the collections of epistles by relevant authors (Eobanus Hessus, Andreas Alenus, Jacob Bidermann, Baudouin Cabiliau,... more...
Übersetzung und Transformation
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 133.00Translations play a decisive role as the basis and trigger for more complex transformations ? both in the construction of science and for literature. In the fine arts and archaeology, it is a question of enquiring into forms of ?translation? which bear resemblances to the functioning of textual translations although they are not based on the transmission... more...
Norden, Eduard: Die antike Kunstprosa vom VI. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis in die Zeit der Renaissance. Band I
De Gruyter 1995; US$ 112.00Norden, Eduard: Die Antike Kunstprosa Vom VI. Jahrhundert V. Chr. Bis in Die Zeit Der Renaissance. Band I more...
Norden, Eduard: Die antike Kunstprosa vom VI. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis in die Zeit der Renaissance. Band II
De Gruyter 1995; US$ 119.00Norden, Eduard: Die Antike Kunstprosa Vom VI. Jahrhundert V. Chr. Bis in Die Zeit Der Renaissance. Band II more...
Die Literatur im Zeitalter Neros
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung In der Regierungszeit des Kaisers Nero (54 - 68 n.Chr.) erleben viele literarische Gattungen eine Blüte oder Renaissance. Für das Epos beschreitet Lucan neue Wege. Seneca verdanken wir die einzigen Tragödien, die aus dem römischen Altertum erhalten sind. Der Roman des Petronius stellt nicht nur ein schillerndes Sittengemälde, sondern... more...









