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  1. Classical antiquity in video games
    playing with the ancient world
    Contributor: Rollinger, Christian (Publisher)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Rollinger, Christian (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350066663; 9781350066649
    Other identifier:
    Series: Imagines - classical receptions in the visual and performing arts
    Subjects: Video games; Video game characters; History in art; History in mass media; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 296 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 256-285
  2. <<A>> guide to scenes of daily life on Athenian vases
    Author: Oakley, John Howard
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780299327200; 9780299327248
    RVK Categories: LG 4200 ; LG 4240 ; LG 4250
    Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
    Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; ART / History / Ancient & Classical; HISTORY / Ancient / Greece; CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Pottery & Ceramics; Vase-painting, Greek - Greece - Athens - Themes, motives
    Scope: xxi, 248 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen
  3. Bild und Schrift auf 'magischen' Artefakten
    Contributor: Kiyanrad, Sarah (Publisher); Theis, Christoffer (Publisher); Willer, Laura (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated... more

     

    The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center’s main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Kiyanrad, Sarah (Publisher); Theis, Christoffer (Publisher); Willer, Laura (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110604337; 9783110601626
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Asian history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Ancient religions & mythologies
    Other subjects: Writing; non-typographic societies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (267 p.)
  4. From Memory to Marble : The historical frieze of the Voortrekker Monument Part II: The Scenes
    Author: Michael Schneider, Rolf; Rankin, Elizabeth
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the Great Trek and Voortrekker... more

     

    The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the Great Trek and Voortrekker occupation of South Africa (1835-52) is one of the largest of its kind. The key question is how, a century later, were eighteen years of Voortrekker memory transformed into a 92-metre marble frieze?

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110668797
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues; African history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Ancient religions & mythologies; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Voortrekker Monument; Pretoria; Boer pioneers; Great Trek
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (646 p.)
  5. Stele und Legende - Untersuchungen zu den keilschriftlichen Erzählwerken über die Könige von Akkade
    Author: Haul, Michael,
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Überlieferte Originalstelen mit Inschriften der großen Könige Sargon und Narām-Sîn von Akkade, die im 23. Jahrhundert v. Chr. als erste ein Weltreich eroberten, sowie mündlich tradierte Sagen haben diesen beiden Königen einen herausragenden... more

     

    Überlieferte Originalstelen mit Inschriften der großen Könige Sargon und Narām-Sîn von Akkade, die im 23. Jahrhundert v. Chr. als erste ein Weltreich eroberten, sowie mündlich tradierte Sagen haben diesen beiden Königen einen herausragenden Stellenwert in der historischen Erinnerung der Babylonier und Assyrer verschafft. Dies führte zu einer Reihe erzählender Werke, die zum Teil wie echte Heldenlieder gestaltet sind, zum Teil sich aber auch als authentische Königsinschriften gebärden. Das Verständnis dieser heterogenen Textgruppe in verschiedenen Fragerichtungen zu erhellen, ist das Ziel vorliegender Studie. Zu den Fragestellungen gehören die Bestimmung der Gattungen, denen die Texte angehören, und ihre Scheidung von den authentischen Königsinschriften, die durch das Merkmal der Fiktionalität gekennzeichnet ist. Des Weiteren soll die zum Teil hohe literarische Qualität dieser Werke herausgearbeitet werden. Schließlich wird untersucht, inwiefern sich an diesen Werken die Mechanismen und Bedingungen ihrer Überlieferung ablesen lassen, ob sie Spuren eines mündlichen Sargon- und Narām-Sîn-Sagenschatzes aufweisen und welche literarischen Funktionen sie erfüllten. Die Reihe “Göttinger Beiträge zun Alten Orient” setzt die erfolgreichen “Göttinger Arbeitshefte zur Altorientalischen Literatur” fort. Die Reihe wird vom Seminar für Altorientalistik der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen herausgegeben und behandelt die Erschließung und Deutung der reichhaltigen Schriftdenkmäler in akkadischer oder sumerischer Sprache aus der Zeit von ca. 3100 - 500 v. Chr.

     
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  6. Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia
    Contributor: Skre, Dagfinn (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves... more

     

    This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the final section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th–14th centuries.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Skre, Dagfinn (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110421156; 9783110425796
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Early kingship Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia Germanic societies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (545 p.)
  7. Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Holzhausen

    The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, focusing primarily on the... more

     

    The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, focusing primarily on the third-century CE. The newly discovered fragments of the lost work Scythica by the third-century historian Dexippus of Athens, the so-called Scythica Vindobonensia alias Dexippus Vindobonensis, which survived in a Greek palimpsest kept in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, have great impact on the study of this field. The contributions explore the Vienna fragments in their historical and historiographical contexts, from the Roman to the Byzantine Era, and the history of the invasions themselves. Der Band, der aus einer internationalen Tagung gleichen Namens hervorgeht, vereinigt verschiedene disziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Thema der gotischen und anderen germanischen Einfälle ins Römische Reich, besonders im 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr., das durch die neuen Fragmente aus dem verlorenen Werk Skythika des antiken Historikers Dexippos von Athen, die sog. Scythica Vindobonensia alias Dexippus Vindobonensis, die rezent in einem griechischen Palimpsest der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien entdeckt wurden, wichtige Impulse erhalten hat. Die Beiträge behandeln den historischen und historiographischen Kontext der neuen Fragmente, von der römischen bis in die byzantinische Zeit, wie auch die Einfälle als solche.

     
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  8. Language Between God and the Poets (Volume 2.0)
    Author: Key, Alexander
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the... more

     

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at the nexus of language, mind, and reality. Their core conceptual vocabulary carved reality at the joints in a manner quite different from Anglophone and European thought in any period. This vocabulary centered around the words maʿnā (“mental content”) and ḥaqīqah (“accuracy”), two concepts for which Alexander Key develops a translation methodology with the help of Wittgenstein and Kuhn. Language Between God and the Poets helps us see how fundamental the lexicon and lexicography can be to all kinds of theory, how theology can be a science of naming, how logic interacts with language, and how poetic affect can be built on grammar and logic. The four scholars are ar-Rāġib al-Iṣfahānī, Ibn Fūrak, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Philosophy
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; Ancient & Classical; History; Ancient; General; Philosophy; General
  9. Das Prytaneion in Ephesos
    Author: Steskal, Martin
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Im letzten Jahrzehnt vor der Zeitenwende wird im Norden des ephesischen Staatsmarktes ein Gebäude errichtet, das uns heute als eines der wenigen sicher identifizierten Prytaneia der griechisch-römischen Welt bekannt ist. Als Hauptkultgebäude der... more

     

    Im letzten Jahrzehnt vor der Zeitenwende wird im Norden des ephesischen Staatsmarktes ein Gebäude errichtet, das uns heute als eines der wenigen sicher identifizierten Prytaneia der griechisch-römischen Welt bekannt ist. Als Hauptkultgebäude der Polis fungierte das Prytaneion als Amtssitz der höchsten magistratischen Beamten der Stadt, als Ort öffentlicher Ehrenmäler und als der Ort, an dem der sog. Staatsherd untergebracht war – ein ewig brennendes Feuer, das das Leben der Stadt symbolisieren sollte. Zwischen den Jahren 2007 und 2009 wurde das Prytaneion von Ephesos einer abschließenden archäologischen und bauhistorischen Analyse unterzogen. Dabei konnten nicht nur die Baugeschichte, die Funktion und die Struktur der Anlage weitgehend geklärt werden, sondern auch Transformationsprozesse an einem antiken Monumentalbau nachgezeichnet werden, die einen Funktionswandel von einem kaiserzeitlichen Verwaltungs-, Repräsentations- und Kultgebäude zu einem einfachen byzantinischen Werkstatts- und Wohnviertel dokumentieren. Das wechselhafte Schicksal dieses Komplexes, das sich über die ersten acht nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte verfolgen lässt, soll im Zuge dieser Publikation dargelegt werden. A building erected north of the Ephesus state market in the final decade before Christ is today one of the few prytaneia that have been identified with certainty in the Greek-Roman world. A prytaneion was the main cult building of the polis; it functioned as the official seat of the city’s highest municipal authorities, with public cenotaphs and the site of the so-called state fire. It was possible to clarify, for the most part, the history of its construction, as well as the function and the structure of the site, but also the transformation process of this ancient monumental building. Printed with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

     
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  10. Les « Emblèmes » d’André Alciat : Introduction, texte latin, traduction et commentaire d’un choix d’emblèmes sur les animaux
    Author: Andenmatten, Anne-Angélique
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    L’humaniste et juriste milanais André Alciat (1492-1550) est connu pour être le créateur de ce qui deviendra, au cours du XVIe siècle, le genre de l’emblème, caractérisé par sa structure tripartite (inscriptio, pictura, subscriptio). L’Emblematum... more

     

    L’humaniste et juriste milanais André Alciat (1492-1550) est connu pour être le créateur de ce qui deviendra, au cours du XVIe siècle, le genre de l’emblème, caractérisé par sa structure tripartite (inscriptio, pictura, subscriptio). L’Emblematum liber, publié pour la première fois en 1531, réédité à de nombreuses reprises, augmenté de poèmes supplémentaires et de nouvelles illustrations durant le XVIe siècle, contient plus de 200 emblèmes. Le présent commentaire étudie un choix de 75 emblèmes consacrés aux animaux. L’introduction aborde les différentes problématiques en lien avec les emblèmes et offre une synthèse des principales observations tirées de l’analyse du corpus. Le commentaire adopte une forme adaptée à ce genre hybride : pour chaque poème, il présente un choix de gravures issues des principales éditions, afin de mesurer l’évolution des motifs et leur adéquation au texte, puis une traduction française en prose des épigrammes latines, suivie d’un commentaire mettant en évidence la structure de la subscriptio, ses procédés stylistiques, ses sources d’inspiration et son interprétation symbolique.

     
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  11. Die feinen Unterschiede
    Author: Stein-Hölkeskamp, Elke
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    In studies of the Roman elite, scholars have focused on their intensive and restricted commitment to political and military achievement. This book critically considers the lasting exclusivity of this way of life, widening the scope of inquiry to... more

     

    In studies of the Roman elite, scholars have focused on their intensive and restricted commitment to political and military achievement. This book critically considers the lasting exclusivity of this way of life, widening the scope of inquiry to demonstrate how the aristocratic environment also integrated literary pursuits, artistic production and pervasive luxury consumption.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110615722; 9783110614084
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Other subjects: Art collections Roman elites Roman history
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (138 p.)
  12. The Stoic Theory of Beauty
    Author: Celkyte, Aiste
    Published: 2020

    Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aesthetics Shows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aesthetics Analyses material to show that there is a coherent and... more

     

    Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aesthetics

     

    Shows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aesthetics

    Analyses material to show that there is a coherent and substantial attempt at systematic enquiry into aesthetic phenomena

    Discusses how Stoic ideas could enhance our understanding of ancient aesthetics and even contribute to contemporary aesthetics

     

    Aistė Čelkytė shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling. She examines the ways in which the Stoics used aesthetic vocabulary in their arguments to demonstrate that aesthetic concepts played an important role in their philosophy.

    Čelkytė argues that understanding the Stoic’s aesthetic views allows us to interpret their famous account of virtue more thoroughly. She also explores the place that Stoic aesthetics has within the broader ancient Greek and Roman tradition, highlighting the value of incorporating Stoic views in the discussions of aesthetic properties and values.

     
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  13. Stele und Legende : Untersuchungen zu den keilschriftlichen Erzählwerken über die Könige von Akkade
    Author: Haul, Michael
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

  14. Black Boxes – Versiegelungskontexte und Öffnungsversuche Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
    Contributor: Geitz, Eckhard (Publisher); Vater, Christian (Publisher); Zimmer-Merkle, Silke (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    We are surrounded by complex things that affect us but which remain concealed behind interfaces. Examples of such black boxes are diverse: smart watches, artificial intelligence, complex software, and gene-editing technology. This interdisciplinary... more

     

    We are surrounded by complex things that affect us but which remain concealed behind interfaces. Examples of such black boxes are diverse: smart watches, artificial intelligence, complex software, and gene-editing technology. This interdisciplinary volume explores case examples of black boxes using theoretical analytic tools, looks at the ways they are sealed, and presents attempts to disclose their contents.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Geitz, Eckhard (Publisher); Vater, Christian (Publisher); Zimmer-Merkle, Silke (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110701319
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    Subjects: History: theory & methods; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Material culture; Media studies; Sociology; History of science
    Other subjects: Black Box; Interface; Materiality; History of Technology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (418 p.)
  15. Seneca the Elder and his rediscovered ›Historiae abinitio bellorum civilium‹ : New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography
    Contributor: Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent discovery of a fragmentary roll from Herculaneum bearing traces of his Historiae. Contributions not only focus on the discovery of the... more

     

    This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent discovery of a fragmentary roll from Herculaneum bearing traces of his Historiae. Contributions not only focus on the discovery of the papyrus roll, but also offer a broader view on early-imperial Roman historiography, to which the new perspectives opened by the rediscovery of Seneca the Elder’s Historiae greatly contribute.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110688665
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Classical texts; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Other subjects: Seneca the Elder; historiography; philology; Latin
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (425 p.)
  16. Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture : Visualisation, Data Mining, Communication (Volume 3)
    Contributor: Hamidović, David (Publisher); Clivaz, Claire (Publisher); Bowen Savant, Sarah (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Brill

    Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers... more

     

    Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.

     
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  17. John Miles Foley's World of Oralities : Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory
    Contributor: Amodio, Mark C. (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Arc Humanities Press

    This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of... more

     

    This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory, an interdisciplinary school of thought heavily influenced by John Miles Foley, whose work provides the jumping-off point for this volume. The book includes a useful introduction to the history of oral theory and Foley’s ground-breaking and influential work.

     
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  18. The Reception of Thucydides in the Theory and Practice of Hellenistic Historiography
    Author: Kurpios, Marcin
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

    The book explores the significance of that work for the generations of historians and other authors in the Hellenistic age (323-31 BC). It is the first monograph that fully treats the question of the fate of the History in the Hellenistic world. The... more

     

    The book explores the significance of that work for the generations of historians and other authors in the Hellenistic age (323-31 BC). It is the first monograph that fully treats the question of the fate of the History in the Hellenistic world.

    The book collects and analyses for the first time all the fragmentary evidence on Thucydides’ readership from the Classical and the Hellenistic period. It includes a thorough and up-to-date synoptic introduction and extensive bibliography, setting each chapter in the context of broader scholarship from XIXth century onwards.. With this book, readers shall receive a survey of manifold aspects of Thucydides in particular, and of historical writing in the Hellenistic age in general. Die vorliegende Monographie geht der Frage nach, welche Wirkung Thukydides im Hellenistischen Zeitalter (323–31 v. Chr.) entfaltete. Es bietet die erste Monographie, in welcher die Frage nach dem Schicksal des Werks des Thukydides in der hellenistischen Welt umfassend und vollständig behandelt wird. Das Buch sammelt und analysiert zum ersten Mal alle fragmentarischen Beweise für die Leserschaft des Thukydides aus der klassischen und hellenistischen Zeit. Es enthält eine gründliche und aktuelle synoptische Einführung und eine umfangreiche Bibliographie, die jedes Kapitel in den Kontext einer breiteren Gelehrsamkeit ab dem 19. Jahrhundert stellt.

    Damit wird Lesern ein Überblick geboten, zum einen über die vielfältigen Aspekte der Wirkungsgeschichte des Thukydides, zum anderen über das Verfassen von Historiographie im hellenistischen Zeitalter.

     
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  19. Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter : Kulturgeschichte einer Region
    Contributor: Diefenbach, Steffen (Publisher); Müller, Gernot Michael (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution of Roman order, but in... more

     

    The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution of Roman order, but in current discussions it is nowexamined more critically. The contributions to this volume of conference papers combine approaches from history and literature studies in order to review the changing forms and fields of the establishment of collective identities, and to analyse them in their mutual relationships.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Diefenbach, Steffen (Publisher); Müller, Gernot Michael (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110260779; 9783110260052
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Medieval history
    Other subjects: Gaul; Late Antiquity
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (492 p.)
  20. Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
    Contributor: Pollmann, Karla (Publisher); Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the "fall" of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this... more

     

    This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the "fall" of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Pollmann, Karla (Publisher); Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110287158; 9783110286984
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Medieval history; The Early Church
    Other subjects: Rome/ Ancient; Rome/ Image; Alaric; Rome/ Fall in 410 AD
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (324 p.)
  21. Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece
    Author: Junkiert, Maciej
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    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 the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s... more

     

    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 the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek thought and Christianity. It focuses on the key themes of the relationship of Platonism with early Christian writings and their presence in Norwid’s contemporary culture, the opposition of memory and history in 19th-c. literature and social life, and the image of the artist and its influence on social life in modern everyday. The book analyzes Norwid’s oeuvre in a broad comparison with representatives of French, German, and British literature and the humanities.

     
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  22. Lucan und der Prinzipat : Inkonsistenz und unzuverlässiges Erzählen im Bellum Civile
    Author: Kimmerle, Nadja
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Lucan`s Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) is traditionally read as a political critique of the Principate. However, several features of this text run counter to this interpretation. This study reexamines Lucan`s work using the model of the unreliable... more

     

    Lucan`s Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) is traditionally read as a political critique of the Principate. However, several features of this text run counter to this interpretation. This study reexamines Lucan`s work using the model of the unreliable narrator to illuminate its portrayal of contradictory structures in Nero`s Principate. The interdisciplinary approach offers a new perspective on Lucan`s epic poem and its historical importance.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110367430; 9783110373462; 9783110385984
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Other subjects: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus; unreliable narration; Principate; Bellum Civile
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (344 p.)
  23. Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten : Die geographisch-ethnographischen Exkurse in den Res Gestae des Ammianus Marcellinus
    Author: Vergin, Wiebke
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples offeigned eruditionand as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. The author of this... more

     

    Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples offeigned eruditionand as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. The author of this volume believes that the key to understanding Ammianus`s work as a whole lies in his teaching of classical rhetoric, his metaphoric reading of landscapes, and the creation of spaces for memory and counterworlds to the Imperium Romanum. In this way, historical understanding and digressions concerning geographic knowledge must be viewed as interdependent features of the text. The author thus casts a new light on Ammianus`s literary achievements.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110297089; 9783110296938
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE
    Other subjects: Ammianus Marcellinus; Res Gestae; Roman Empire
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (340 p.)
  24. Living the End of Antiquity : Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt
    Contributor: Huebner, Sabine R. (Publisher); Garosi, Eugenio (Publisher); Marthot-Santaniello, Isabelle (Publisher); Müller, Matthias (Publisher); Stern, Matthias (Publisher); Schmidt, Stefanie (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new... more

     

    This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world.

     
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    Contributor: Huebner, Sabine R. (Publisher); Garosi, Eugenio (Publisher); Marthot-Santaniello, Isabelle (Publisher); Müller, Matthias (Publisher); Stern, Matthias (Publisher); Schmidt, Stefanie (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110683554; 9783110683318; 9783110683585
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical history / classical civilisation; Medieval history; Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology
    Other subjects: Byzantine Egypt; early Islamic world; end of antiquity; social history
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (250 p.)
  25. Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography
    Author: Harris, Susanna; Brøns, Cecilie; Zuchowska, Marta
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxbow Books

    This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs... more

     

    This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through the processes of textile production. The challenge for anyone analysing ancient iconography is determining how we interpret what we see. As preserved textiles rarely survive in comparable forms, we must consider the extent to which representations of textiles reflect reality, and critically evaluate the sources. Images are not simple replicas or photographs of reality. Instead, iconography draws on select elements from the surrounding world that were recognisable to the ancient audience, and reveal the perceptions, ideologies, and ideas of the society in which they were produced. Through examining the durable evidence, this anthology reveals the ephemeral world of textiles and their integral role in the daily life, cult and economy of the ancient Mediterranean.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Fashion & textiles: design
    Other subjects: History; Ancient; Rome; History; Ancient; Design; Textile & Costume