Carminis Personae - Character in Roman Poetry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 1
• This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. Authors d... Lees meer

Sparta

Ryszard Kulesza

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 14
• A comprehensive introduction to the Greek superpower of the fifth and fourth century BC. Part I: the Spartan political institutions, mechanisms of gov... Lees meer

Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece

Maciej Junkiert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 10
• Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in t... Lees meer

Marsilii de Inghen Quaestiones Super Quattuor Libros Sententiarum

Pawel Superat

• Hardcover | Engels, Latijn | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 16
• The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8-10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen ... Lees meer

Textualization of Experience

Pawel Majewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 12
• The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to des... Lees meer

The New Greeks

Maciej Junkiert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 17
• The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relation... Lees meer

In the Shadow of Djoser's Pyramid

Karol Jan Mysliwiec

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 8
• Presentation of discoveries made by the Polish archaeological mission in Saqqara (Egypt) west of the Pyramid of Djoser, including cemeteries of noblem... Lees meer

Legein Ta Legomena. Herodotus' Stories as Natural Narrative

Iwona Wieżel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 6
• In the aftermath of the Persian Wars, not only new geopolitical borders were established in the Hellenic world, but there also emerged an intracultura... Lees meer

Glossae - Scholia - Commentarii

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 2
• The aim of the book is to present a literary genre - the commentary as a main form of scientific literature in Antiquity and Middle Ages. The collecta... Lees meer

The Church Histories of Theodore Lector and John Diakrinomenos

Rafal Kosiński, Kamilla Twardowska, Aneta Zabrocka, Adrian Szopa

• Hardcover | Engels, Grieks | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 11
• This book provides the reader with a comprehensive edition of the Church Histories by John Diakrinomenos and Theodore Lector. It contains the original... Lees meer

Magic as an Element of Political Debate in the Historiography and Imperial Biography of the 1st -5th Centuries AD

Justyna Migdal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 15
• The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offe... Lees meer

Exempla Externa in Cicero's Orations

Damian Pierzak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 13
• Historical exempla were an important part of the Roman political discourse. They could serve as a moral guide to conduct, but also lend credibility to... Lees meer

The Monstrous World

Julia Doroszewska

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 4
• The cultural category of monster is the key to understanding the "Mirabilia" by Phlegon of Tralles. Applied to Phlegon's 35 marvelous stories, this ca... Lees meer

Narses. Politik, Krieg Und Historiographie

Dariusz Brodka

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 7
• Narses, ein Eunuch und Feldherr des Oströmischen Kaisers Justinian, war eine bedeutende Gestalt der ausgehenden Spätantike. Von den 530er Jahren bis e... Lees meer

Ancient Myths in the Making of Culture

Malgorzata Budzowska, Jadwiga Czerwińska

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 3
• The volume consists of articles, which are divided into the three main chapters: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts and Philosophy as well as Anth... Lees meer

Le texte comme présence

Juliusz Domanski

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture | nr. 5
• Le texte comme présence Commençant par Homère et finissant avec les héritiers de l'humanisme de la Renaissance au XVII e siècle, on suit ici les réfle... Lees meer