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  1. Lucan's imperial world
    the bellum civile in its contemporary contexts
    Contributor: Zientek, Laura (HerausgeberIn); Thorne, Mark (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, [London, England] ; Bloomsbury Publishing

    "These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile ,... more

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    "These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile , Lucan's poetic narrative of the monumental civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, explores the violent foundations of the Roman principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The poem, composed more than a century later during the reign of Nero, thus recalls the past while being very much a product of its time. This volume offers innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan's epic in terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author's lifetime. In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our understanding of author, text, and context individually and in conversation with each other."-- Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations -- Introduction: Lucan and His World , Laura -- Zientek and Mark Thorne PART I: LUCAN AND CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AND TRADITIONS 1. Imperial Ethics and the Individual in Lucan and Seneca's Letters, -- Paul Roche, University of Sydney, Australia 2. Lucanus mirabatur adeo scripta Flacci : Lucan and Persius, Thomas Biggs, -- University of Georgia, USA 3. Cicero, Lucan, and Rhetorical Role-Play in Bellum Civile 7, -- Annette M. Baertschi, Bryn Mawr College, USA -- PART II: THE NATURAL WORLD AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE NERONIAN PERIOD 4. Mining and Morality in Lucan and Seneca, Laura -- Zientek, Reed College, USA -- 5. Even Natura Nods: Lucan's Alternate Explanations of the Syrtes (9.303-18), James Calvin Taylor, -- Harvard University, USA -- 6. World Geography, Roman History, and the Failure to Incorporate Parthia in Lucan's Bellum Civile , Mauro Serena, University of Reading, UK PART III: CATO'S NERONIAN NACHLEBEN 7. Lucan's Cato and Popular (Mis)conceptions of Stoicism , David H. Kaufman, Transylvanian -- University, USA -- 8. Sage, Soldier, Politician, and Benefactor: Cato in Seneca and Lucan, Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, University of Houston, USA -- PART IV: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE 9. Lucan and the Specter of Sulla in Julio-Claudian Rome, Julia Mebane, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA 10. Re-Membering the Palatine in Lucan's Bellum Civile , Jesse Weiner, -- Hamilton College, USA 11. Lucan's Nostalgia and the Infection of Memory, E. V. Mulhern, Temple University -- 12. Lucan's Neronian Res Publica Restituta , Andrew McClellan, San Diego State -- University, USA -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Locorum.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Zientek, Laura (HerausgeberIn); Thorne, Mark (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1350097411; 9781350097445; 9781350097421
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Epic poetry, Latin; Classical texts
    Other subjects: Lucan (39-65): Pharsalia; Caesar, Julius; Caesar, Julius: De bello civili
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  2. Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature
    Contributor: Turunen, Risto (Publisher); Hägg, Samuli (Publisher); Sevänen, Erkki (Publisher)
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of... more

     

    In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish literature from the early 20th century to the present. By analyzing different genres of Finnish literature in varying historical contexts Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature provides an abundance of new information on Finnish literature and its metaliterary phenomena for everyone interested. In the articles of this book, the metalayers of literature are discussed in experimental prose and poetry as well as in popular fiction and children’s literature.

     
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  3. The International Turn in American Studies
    Contributor: Messmer, Marietta (Publisher); Frank, Armin Paul (Publisher)
    Published: 20150828
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and... more

     

    The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and strengthened national borders alongside multiple challenges to national sovereignty.

     
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  4. 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.)
  5. Digital Papyrology II : Case Studies on the Digital Edition of Ancient Greek Papyri
    Contributor: Reggiani, Nicola (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of... more

     

    The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of representing any textual and paratextual feature as much as possible, and of encoding them in a semantic markup that is very different from a traditional critical edition, based on the mere display of information. Moreover, several new tools allow us to reconsider not only the linguistic dimension of the ancient texts (from exploiting the potentialities of linguistic annotation to a full consideration of language variation as a key to socio-cultural analysis), but also the very concept of philological variation (replacing the mono-authorial view of an reconstructed archetype with a dynamic multitextual model closer to the fluid aspect of the textual transmission). The contributors, experts in the application of digital strategies to the papyrological research, face these issues from their own viewpoints, not without glimpses on parallel fields like Egyptology and Near Eastern studies. The result is a new, original and cross-disciplinary overview of a key issue in the digital humanities.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Reggiani, Nicola (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110547450; 9783110538526
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: digital strategies; ancient documents; digital papyrology; Greek
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (197 p.)
  6. The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
    Contributor: Nugent, Christopher (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have... more

     

    Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of the originals. This new version provides a complete Chinese/English edition of the poems, aimed at combining readability with scholarly accuracy. It will prove useful to students of Chinese poetry and of Chinese religion, as well as anyone interested in a better understanding of works that have proved so influential in the history of East Asian Buddhism and in world literature.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Nugent, Christopher (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501501913; 9781501510564
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies
    Other subjects: poetry; translation; Hanshan; Shide; Fenggan; Chinese; English
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (423 p.)
  7. Sprachkontakte Deutsch - Tschechisch - Slowakisch : Woerterbuch der deutschen Lehnwoerter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen
    Author: Newerkla, Stefan Michael
    Published: 20130312
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Gegenstand ist die Analyse der Sprachkontakte zwischen dem Deutschen, Tschechischen und Slowakischen anhand der Geschichte der deutschen Lehnwörter in diesen Slawinen vom Beginn ihrer einzelsprachlichen Entwicklung bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Nach einer... more

     

    Gegenstand ist die Analyse der Sprachkontakte zwischen dem Deutschen, Tschechischen und Slowakischen anhand der Geschichte der deutschen Lehnwörter in diesen Slawinen vom Beginn ihrer einzelsprachlichen Entwicklung bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Nach einer synthetisierenden Studie werden im chronologisch und nach regionalen Varietäten gegliederten Wörterbuch in mehr als 3 500 Wörterbuchartikeln über 15 000 einzelne Wortformen analysiert und ihre Erstbelege angeführt. Mit einer umfassenden Bibliographie zum deutsch-slawischen Sprachkontakt und ausführlichen Indices stellt das für die Neuauflage durchgehend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Werk eine nahezu unerschöpfliche Quelle für die Sprachkontaktforschung im Allgemeinen sowie für die Germanistik und Slawistik im Besonderen dar.

     
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  8. The Poetry of Du Fu
    Contributor: Warner, Ding Xiang (Publisher); Kroll, Paul (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to... more

     

    The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional commentaries overlook.The main body of the text is a facing page translation and critical edition of the earliest Song editions and other sources. For convenience the translations are arranged following the sequence in Qiu Zhao’an’s Du shi xiangzhu (although Qiu’s text is not followed). Basic footnotes are included when the translation needs clarification or supplement. Endnotes provide sources, textual notes, and a limited discussion of problem passages. A supplement references commonly used allusions, their sources, and where they can be found in the translation.Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. The scholar may use this as a baseline to agree or disagree. Other readers can feel confident that this is a credible reading of the text within the tradition. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu, which can present problems for even the most learned reader.

     
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    Contributor: Warner, Ding Xiang (Publisher); Kroll, Paul (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501501890; 9781614517122
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies
    Other subjects: Chinese literature; translation
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (2962 p.)
  9. Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum : Die Beispiele Pompeji und Herculaneum
    Author: Opdenhoff, Fanny
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions of creation and... more

     

    Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions of creation and situations that once confronted the ancient reader. This demonstrates in singular fashion the interconnections between the context, action, content, and materiality of the texts.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110722758; 9783110722697; 9783110722895
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Classical history / classical civilisation
    Other subjects: Wall Inscriptions; Pompeii; Herculaneum
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (397 p.)
  10. Hippolytus
    Author: Euripides,
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as it might have appeared in unprocessed form to a... more

     

    Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as it might have appeared in unprocessed form to a reader sometime shortly after Euripides’ death. The second processes the drama into the reduced but much more distinct form of modern print translations.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Gurd, Sean (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: classical literature; tragedy; Europides; experimental translation
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (168 p.)
  11. Beowulf: A Translation
    Contributor: Hadbawnik, David (Publisher); Remein, Daniel C. (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon... more

     

    Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed out for readability. The problem with, and the paradox of this desired outcome, especially as it concerns Anglo-Saxon poetry, is that we are left with a document that translates an entire organizing principle based on oral transmission (and perhaps composition) into a visual, textual realm of writing and reading. The sense of loss or nostalgia for the old form seems a necessary and ever-present shadow over modern Beowulfs. What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesn’t bother with any such nostalgia? When the entire organizational apparatus of the poem—instead of being uneasily approximated in modern verse form—is itself translated into a modern organizing principle, i.e., the visual text? This is the approach that poet Thomas Meyer takes; as he writes, [I]nstead of the text’s orality, perhaps perversely I went for the visual. Deciding to use page layout (recto/ verso) as a unit. Every translation I’d read felt impenetrable to me with its block after block of nearly uniform lines. Among other quirky decisions made in order to open up the text, the project wound up being a kind of typological specimen book for long American poems extant circa 1965. Having variously the “look” of Pound’s Cantos, Williams’ Paterson, or Olson or Zukofsky, occasionally late Eliot, even David Jones

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Hadbawnik, David (Publisher); Remein, Daniel C. (Publisher)
    Language: English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: Beowulf; Old English poetry; modern translation; avant-garde poetry
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
  12. Theodore Metochites’ Sententious Notes : Semeioseis gnomikai 61–70 & 72–81
    Author: Wahlgren, Staffan
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Kriterium, Gothenburg

    "This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai (""Sententious notes"") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332). The introduction gives an extensive, partly... more

     

    "This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai (""Sententious notes"") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332).

    The introduction gives an extensive, partly new, description and assessment of the manuscripts as physical objects and in their relationship to each other. The manuscripts discussed, and used in the edition, are the Par. gr. 2003 (P) and Marc. gr. 532 (M), both of the fourteenth century, and, wherever M is illegible, the Scor. gr. 248 (E), a sixteenth-century copy of M. In the edition, the reading of P (including the corrections by the main copyist, Michael Klostomalles, as well as a manus secunda) is generally adopted as the authoritative text.

    The volume concludes with a bibliography, an index of passages, and an index of names.

    The discussion in the essays touches upon several subjects, more or less related to each other. Among these are the ignorance of man and the difficulty to know anything, and the moral side of seeking an active life as opposed to ""living hidden""."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789173469937; 9789173469951; 9789173469968
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Prose: non-fiction; Literary essays; Humanities; Ethics & moral philosophy
    Other subjects: Byzantium; Sceptical philosophy; The ignorance of man; Changes of fortune; Politics; "Live hidden"
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (271 p.)
  13. Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome: Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60
    Author: Hult, Karin
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Kriterium, Gothenburg, Sweden

    "A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes”), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). The edition is based on... more

     

    "A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes”), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). The edition is based on three manuscripts, which are briefly presented in the introduction. P (Par. gr. 2003, Paris) and M (Marc. gr. 532, Venice) were both written in the early fourteenth century; E (Scor. gr. 248, Escorial) is a sixteenth-century copy of M.

    After the edition, with accompanying English translation and notes, the book is concluded with a bibliography and three indexes: of quoted passages, Greek words, and Greek names.

    Several of the essays in this volume contain laments on the reduced state of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), and on the vicissitudes of human life and fortune. A group of short essays describe the pleasure of beholding Creation and one of the longest discusses the pros and cons of having been born, i.e. of life."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789173468909; 9789173469005; 9789173468992
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: decline; human condition; byzantium; fourth crusade; eastern roman empire; A Greek–English Lexicon; Athens; God; Logos; Plato; Plutarch; Theodore Metochites
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (335 p.)
  14. Sea-changes - Melville - Forster - Britten : the story of Billy Budd and its operatic adaptation
    Author: Rochlitz, Hanna,
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirms the... more

     

    E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirms the Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships. This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his life writings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.

     
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  15. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
    Author: Gildenhard, Ingo; Zissos, Andrew
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes... more

     

    "This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb. The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions.

    This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought."

     
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    Subjects: Translation & interpretation; Classical texts; Poetry by individual poets
    Other subjects: commentary; metamorphoses; vocabulary; myth; ovid; latin literature; Acoetes; Dionysus; Pentheus; Thebes; Greece
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
  16. The Baptized Muse : Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
    Author: Pollmann, Karla
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press

    With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions, the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian... more

     

    With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions, the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian convictions became increasingly pressing. Especially classical poetry, the staple diet of pagan education, was considered morally corrupting (because of its deceitful mythological content) and damaging for the salvation of the soul (because of the false gods it advocated). But Christianity recoiled from an unqualified anti-intellectual attitude, while at the same time the experiment of creating an idiosyncratic form of genuinely Christian poetry failed (the sole exception being the poet Commodianus). This book argues that, instead, Christian poets made creative use of the classical literary tradition, and—in addition to blending it with Judaeo-Christian biblical exegesis—exploited poetry’s special ability of enhancing the effectiveness of communication through aesthetic means. It seeks to explore these strategies through a close analysis of a wide range of Christian, and for comparison partly also pagan, writers mainly from the fourth to sixth centuries. The book reveals that early Christianity was not a hermetically sealed uniform body, but displays a rich spectrum of possibilities in dealing with the past and a willingness to engage with and adapt the surrounding culture(s), thereby developing diverse and changing responses to historical challenges. By demonstrating throughout that authority is a key in understanding the long denigrated and misunderstood early Christian poets, this book reaches the ground-breaking conclusion that early Christian poetry is an art form that gains its justification by adding cultural authority to Christianity. Thus, in a wider sense this book engages with the recently emerged scholarly interest in aspects of religion as cultural phenomena.

     
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  17. Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119 : Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
    Author: Gildenhard, Ingo
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an... more

     

    "Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war.

    Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death.

    This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence."

     
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: Cicero; Philippics; Julius Caesar; Mark Antony; the Senate; rhetoric; original Latin text; vocabulary aids; study questions; commentary; A-Level
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (488 p.)
  18. Ovid, Amores (Book 1)
    Author: Turpin, William
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this... more

     

    "From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. This book contain embedded audio files of the original text read aloud by Aleksandra Szypowska. Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun writing his Amores as early as 25 BC. Although influenced by poets such as Catullus, Ovid demonstrates a much greater awareness of the funny side of love than any of his predecessors. The Amores is a collection of romantic poems centered on the poet’s own complicated love life: he is involved with a woman, Corinna, who is sometimes unobtainable, sometimes compliant, and often difficult and domineering. Whether as a literary trope, or perhaps merely as a human response to the problems of love in the real world, the principal focus of these poems is the poet himself, and his failures, foolishness, and delusions.

    By the time he was in his forties, Ovid was Rome’s most important living poet; his Metamorphoses, a kaleidoscopic epic poem about love and hatred among the gods and mortals, is one of the most admired and influential books of all time. In AD 8, Ovid was exiled by Augustus to Romania, for reasons that remain obscure. He died there in AD 17.

    The Amores were originally published in five books, but reissued around 1 AD in their current three-book form. This edition of the first book of the collection contains the complete Latin text of Book 1, along with commentary, notes and full vocabulary. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book will provide an invaluable aid to students of Latin and general readers alike."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Translation & interpretation; Classical texts; Poetry by individual poets
    Other subjects: rome; commentary; erotic poetry; amores; vocabulary; ovid; latin literature; notes; Accusative case; Cupid; Dative case; Dipsas; Subjunctive mood; Venus
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (266 p.)
  19. Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal : Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary
    Author: Mulligan, Bret
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one... more

     

    "Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his tumultuous political career in Carthage, to his perilous exile and eventual suicide in the East. As Rome completed its bloody transition from dysfunctional republic to stable monarchy, Nepos labored to complete an innovative and influential collection of concise biographies. Putting aside the detailed, chronological accounts of military campaigns and political machinations that characterized most writing about history, Nepos surveyed Roman and Greek history for distinguished men who excelled in a range of prestigious occupations. In the exploits and achievements of these illustrious men, Nepos hoped that his readers would find models for the honorable conduct of their own lives. Although most of Nepos' works have been lost, we are fortunate to have his biography of Hannibal. Nepos offers a surprisingly balanced portrayal of a man that most Roman authors vilified as the most monstrous foe that Rome had ever faced.

    Nepos' straightforward style and his preference for common vocabulary make Life of Hannibal accessible for those who are just beginning to read continuous Latin prose, while the historical interest of the subject make it compelling for readers of every ability."

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Translation & interpretation; Classical texts; Classical history / classical civilisation
    Other subjects: hannibal; chartage; cornelius nepos; punic wars; ancient rome; latin literature; Carthage; Cicero; Italy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (174 p.)
  20. Heinrich Bullinger : Kommentare zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen
    Author: Bullinger, Heinrich
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  TVZ Theologischer Verlag Zürich, Zürich

    Im Geist der Reformation verstand Heinrich Bullinger Theologie in erster Linie als Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift. Mit diesem Band – dem neunten in der Reihe seiner Theologischen Schriften – wird die Edition seiner Kommentare zu den... more

     

    Im Geist der Reformation verstand Heinrich Bullinger Theologie in erster Linie als Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift. Mit diesem Band – dem neunten in der Reihe seiner Theologischen Schriften – wird die Edition seiner Kommentare zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen abgeschlossen. Darin enthalten sind die Auslegungen des Briefs an die Hebräer sowie der Katholischen Briefe. Die Texte sind anhand der Erstauflage sowie der ersten Gesamtausgabe der Kommentare Bullingers zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen (1537) historisch-kritisch ediert worden. Erschlossen wird die Edition durch eine Einleitung und insgesamt vier Register (Bibelstellen, Quellen, Personen und Orte).

     
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    Contributor: Baschera, Luca (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-290-18275-5
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: Neues Testament; Heinrich Bullinger; Reformation; Reformierte Theologie; Exegese; Zürich; 16. Jahrhundert
  21. La conquista imaginaria de América: crónicas, literatura y cine
    Author: Schlickers, Sabine
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    El estudio se dedica a representaciones historiográficas, literarias y fílmicas del Descubrimiento y de la Conquista de América. A través de apropiaciones variadas de los mismos acontecimientos históricos, los respectivos representantes artísticos se... more

     

    El estudio se dedica a representaciones historiográficas, literarias y fílmicas del Descubrimiento y de la Conquista de América. A través de apropiaciones variadas de los mismos acontecimientos históricos, los respectivos representantes artísticos se vinculan intertextual o intermedialmente. Las imágenes de ficción crean una realidad, de ahí el título La Conquista imaginaria, que alude a la concepción de la nación como imagined community de Benedict Anderson (1983). Las narraciones ficcionales crean a la vez historia, puesto que influyen en el imaginario colectivo y operan como un dispositivo ideológico y memorístico. El objetivo es desenredar estas relaciones transtextuales y reconstruir las visiones singulares de la Conquista y su función.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-653-06075-1
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    Subjects: Classical texts
    Other subjects: Literature: history and criticism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (154 p.)
  22. Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten : Aspekte materialer Textkultur in archaischer und frühklassischer Zeit
    Author: Dietrich, Nikolaus; Fouquet, Johannes; Reinhardt, Corinna
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    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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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110696677
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Classical history / classical civilisation
    Other subjects: Materiality; inscription; writing culture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (256 p.)
  23. Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe : Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture
    Contributor: Päll, Janika (Publisher); Volt, Ivo (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to... more

     

    The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to know and use Greek, because he is not, cannot and will not be a barbarian: barbaros ou pelomai, as Julius Caesar Scaliger claimed in his verses in 1600. Wreaths (stephanoi) have been the symbols of the cult of Muses from ancient times. After the love for Greek Muses had been revived by Renaissance Humanist poets and scholars, it has remained with us both in poetic activity and in scholarship. The Hellenostephanos volume presents a collection of papers by scholars who study Humanist Greek, aspiring towards another revival of Hellenism, and trying to avoid being barbarians. The volume includes papers by Christian Gastgeber, Gita Bērziņa, Janika Päll, Charalampos Minaoglou, Erkki Sironen, Kaspar Kolk, Tua Korhonen, Johanna Akujärvi, Bartosz Awianowicz, Jean-Marie Flamand, Walther Ludwig, Alessandra Lukinovich, Martin Steinrück, Tomas Veteikis, Grigory Vorobyev, Vlado Rezar, Pieta van Beek, and Antoine Haaker.

     
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  24. The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV : Adhyāyas 70 – 95. Start of the Skanda and Andhaka Cycles
    Author: Bisschop, Peter; Yokochi, Yuko
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden; Boston

    Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the Man-Lion (Narasiṃha), the... more

     

    Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.

    The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the Man-Lion (Narasiṃha), the birth of Skanda, the birth of Andhaka, and Hiraṇyākṣa’s battle with the gods culminating in his victory and capture of the Earth.

    Thanks to generous support of the J. Gonda Fund Foundation, the e-book version of this volume is available in Open Access.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004383517; 9789004383487
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Religion & beliefs
    Other subjects: Hindu; religious texts
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (383 p.)
  25. Mythische Sphärenwechsel
    Contributor: Zgoll, Annette (Publisher); Zgoll, Christian (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Journeys to the realm of the dead, voyages to the island of souls, ascents to heaven – this book analyzes and reconstructs sphere change myth material using an innovative theoretical and methodological approach. The research strategy adopted here... more

     

    Journeys to the realm of the dead, voyages to the island of souls, ascents to heaven – this book analyzes and reconstructs sphere change myth material using an innovative theoretical and methodological approach. The research strategy adopted here offers new insights into dynamic transfer processes in myths, and reveals striking evidence of various strata that result in several parallel levels of meaning.

     
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    Contributor: Zgoll, Annette (Publisher); Zgoll, Christian (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110652840; 9783110652529
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Middle Eastern history; Classical history / classical civilisation
    Other subjects: Mythos ancient world myths
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (639 p.)