Ein hochgebildeter und virtuoser Meister der Redekunst wandelt mit seinen Bewunderern durch eine Galerie und beschreibt ihnen die dort versammelten Gemälde: So präsentieren ...

The most comprehensive study of Seneca's "Hercules Furens"; it provides a new text with translation, a detailed commentary on the dramaturgy and language of the play and ...

Love between man and woman has been a theme in poems in nearly every culture of all times. This book by Brigitte Musche concentrates on the theme of "love" in the poetry of the ...

Funny, witty and biting medieval Latin satire, flourishing in the 12th and 13th centuries, is not as famous as its Roman predecessor. The first part of this book therefore ...

This volume, with Greek text and facing translation, completes the commentary, the first in any language for ninety years, on the surviving songs of Bacchylides, the ...

This edition of a newly discovered Byzantine treatise of Pindaric metre discusses on the basis of the new discovery the methods and achievements of Byzantine Pindaric philology ...

This volume "Praise to Istar" contains three quite distinct Old-Babylonian prayers to the fertility-and-war goddess. Two of these texts, one from the Louvre Museum, the other ...

This volume contains a critical edition of Ovid's epistle of Medea to Jason, together with the fragments of his lost tragedy "Medea," including "testimonia," Introduction and ...

Gegenstand des Buches sind die literarischen Gemeinplätze (Topoi) in der griechischen mittelalterlichen Heiligenliteratur. Thomas Pratsch bietet hier zum einen eine umfassende ...