Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page...

The Sushén hòujì (Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena), attributed to the celebrated poet Táo Qián (365-427), is a compilation of anecdote...

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of official writings on behalf of the Crown. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awa...

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius presence in later prose writers, on the other ha...

In den Anfängen der Germanistik im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, die zunächst fast nur eine altgermanistische Philologie war, gehörten Übersetzungen nich...

Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human life and behavior, as well as in communication. This interdisciplinar...

10 Jahre nach der völlig neu ausgerichteten 15. Auflage der Lachmann-Cormeau-Ausgabe erscheint eine 16. Auflage. Der Herausgeber Thomas Bein hat ei...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contribut...

The triumphal procession determined the thoughts and actions of the Romans to a great extent. This applies not only to the period of the late Repu...

Clemency plays an important role among Livys concepts of value. This work offers a wide-ranging analysis of this virtue, in order to highlight its...

This anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast b...

Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R (mgf 1062 [Niederösterreich, ca. 1280]) enthält zehn Lieder, zu denen am Blattrand Strophen nachgetragen sind. ...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

In den bisherigen Entwürfen einer Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des Neids gilt das späte 18. Jahrhundert als Wendepunkt: Während mittelalterliche...

The fourth volume in the Petra Papyri series, the scholarly publication meticulously documenting, translating and interpreting the information reco...

This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from it...

This is the third volume in the series of commentaries on Early Greek Epic Fragments (EGEF III). It contains introduction, text, translation, and c...

Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer co...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional govern...

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the ...

Panegyrik ist der wohl prägendste Sprechgestus spätantiker Literatur und basiert auf einem Kommunikationsgefälle zwischen laudator und laudandus. W...