Die Nibelungensage hat sich in Deutschland und in Skandinavien seit Jahrhunderten grosser Beliebtheit erfreut. Wahrend einige Bearbeitungen als Meisterwerke gelten, hat die Hvenische Chronik keine Beachtung gefunden. In der danischen Prosaerzahlung von 1603 wird die Handlung auf die winzige OEresundinsel Hven verlagert, wo Tycho Brahe 21 Jahre lang die Sterne beobachtete. Dort kampft die Riesin Kremild gegen ihren Bruder Hogen um einen Schatz. Der Krieg fuhrt zu Tod und Untergang, aber auch zu Frieden und Freiheit. Die Hvenische Chronik ist von kopfschuttelnden Sagenforschern bislang als "Machwerk" abqualifiziert worden. Sie ist in Wirklichkeit eine kunstvolle, aber verschlusselte Darstellung des damaligen Danemark. Mit diesem Renaissancemarchen errichtete der mutige Verfasser seinem Land und Europa ein unvergleichbares Denkmal.

The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; a 6th-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in 14th-century North Wales. He is, above all, no single 'he'. The figure of Taliesin is a mystery. But of the variety and quality of the poems written under his sign, of their power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination, and of the fascinating window they offer us onto a strange and visionary world, there can be no question. In the first volume to gather all of the poems from The Book of Taliesin since 1915, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's accessible translation makes these outrageous, arrogant, stumbling and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.

The private property of the imperial familyis a subject of great importance for the study of the Byzantine Empire. The papyri prove to be a fruitful source for the reconstruction of previously uncertain aspects of the administration and extension of imperial domains. The volume presentsthepapyrological dossier of the domus divina, and undertakes an analysis of the administrators tasks as well as an identification of the estates and their employees."

Die Apophthegmata (geistreiche Ausspruche) des Erasmus von Rotterdam (1469-1536) sind ein literatur- und kulturgeschichtlich wichtiges Werk des Renaissance-Humanismus. Dieses bedeutende Spatwerk stellt eine Sammlung von fast 3000 Anekdoten und erbaulichen Erzahlungen dar, in deren Mittelpunkt geistreiche Ausspruche beruhmter Manner und Frauen der Antike stehen. Das Werk ist 1532 in acht Buchern erschienen und dem jugendlichen Herzog von Kleve, Berg und Julich gewidmet. Es stellt eine Art Furstenspiegel dar, wendet sich daruber hinaus an ein groesseres Publikum, das auf unterhaltsame Weise belehrt werden soll. Mit der vorliegenden Ausgabe wird zum ersten Mal ein lateinisch-deutscher Paralleltext zusammen mit einem wissenschaftlichen Kommentar vorgestellt. Dieser soll nicht nur die Abhangigkeit des Erasmus von seinen griechischen und lateinischen Quellen dokumentieren, sondern auch durch gezielte sprachlich-stilistische Untersuchungen und durch Erlauterungen zu Inhalt und Komposition das Verstandnis fur den Autor und sein umfangreiches Spatwerk foerdern und somit einen Beitrag zur Erasmusforschung leisten.

Die Welt der in den TragAdien des Aischylos so zahlreich und eindrA1/4cklich auftretenden UnheilsmAchte wie etwa Daimon, Alastor oder Erinys erfAhrt hier erstmals eine zusammenhAngende Darstellung. Zur philologischen Untersuchung dieser "dAmonischen" Gestalten vor dem Hintergrund der literarischen Tradtion gesellen sich eindringende Interpretationen der erhaltenen aischyleischen Dramen, insbesondere der Orestie. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die UnheilsmAchte und Rachegeister bei Aischylos fA1/4r die Konstruktion und Deutung der tragischen Handlung eine zentrale Funktion besitzen. Hinter der unverkennbaren dramaturgischen Wirkungsabsicht werden jedoch auch Elemente lebendiger griechischer ReligiositAt und Kultpraxis fassbar. So vermittelt die Studie auch religionswissenschaftlich und kulturhistorisch Interessierten fundierte Einblicke inThemen wie Blutschuld und Rache, Fluch und Totengeiser oder die fA1/4r das griechische Drama so grundlegende Verkettung von Schicksal und Schuld.

After more than three decades since the publication of Gwyn Griffiths' 1975 commentary, which concentrated mainly on Egyptological aspects and represents an outdated, positivistic approach to the literary evidence on Isis, this new commentary presents a new and thorough assessment of Apuleius' Isis Book, elucidating and interpreting the narrative in its literary, religious, archaeological and cultural context. Reflecting the recent innovative approach to the interaction of literature and religion (Literarisierung von Religion) and the important developments in the research on the Second Sophistic (e.g. 'Self-fashioning'; Cultural Identity), the volume offers a new, detailed interpretation of the Isis Book in the easy-to-use form of a fully-fledged commentary, including Latin Text and monographic Introduction.

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem's effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off. The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W. R. Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem's most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects. An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a glossary are also included.

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Stellung der Frauen aus der senatorischen Oberschicht der spaten roemischen Republik. Betrachtet werden ihre Rolle und ihre Handlungsmoeglichkeiten im oeffentlichen und privaten Bereich. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Terentia, die Ehefrau Ciceros und ihre gemeinsame Tochter Tullia. Als Arbeitsgrundlage dient die Korrespondenz Ciceros, welche als Quelle fur das Alltagsleben der Frauen in der Forschung bislang unterschatzt wurde. Hier finden sich zahlreiche Hinweise fur wirtschaftliche und politische Aktivitaten von Frauen, die als authentisches Zeugnis fur Realverhalten und Handlungsmoeglichkeiten im Kontext der Umbruchszeit zwischen Republik und Prinzipat gewertet werden koennen. Berucksichtigt werden politische Betatigungsfelder, wirtschaftliche Aktivitaten, die gesellschaftliche Stellung und auch, so weit wie moeglich, die Beziehungen der Familienmitglieder zueinander. Die unterschiedlichen Bilder, die von Terentia und Tullia in den antiken Quellen und in der Literatur gezeichnet wurden, werden abschliessend vor diesem Hintergrund kritisch gepruft.

Augustins Sermones ad populum bilden den groessten Einzelposten all seiner Werke. Ihre Rolle in der Augustinus-Rezeption entspricht dagegen keineswegs ihrer Bedeutung. Die Vorstellungen von Person und Denken Augustins sind daher oft verzeichnet, weil seine Pastoral zu wenig zur Kenntnis genommen wird. Zu ihrer besseren Erschliessung legt der vierte Band der zweisprachigen Ausgabe dreizehn Weihnachtspredigten vor, wovon elf erstmals ins Deutsche ubertragen wurden. Der en face abgedruckte Text gibt die grundlegende Maurineredition unter kritischem Vergleich mit den spateren Editionen und deren Abweichungen wieder. Die Einleitungen und Anmerkungen erlautern das zur Einordnung und zum Verstandnis der Texte Erforderliche: Echtheit, UEberlieferung, Chronologie, Textkritik, Struktur, Stil, historische Daten, Theologie und Liturgie. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Nachweis des biblischen Gedankengutes.

This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of Herodotus’ nine-book work is one of the richest in its exploration of themes, such as the practices and customs of different peoples and the nature of political power, issues still much debated today. This commentary illuminates the geographical and even anthropological scope of Herodotus' history, and enables students to confidently tackle the text in the original Greek. Bringing together a full introduction, text, commentary and translation, Longley makes Herodotus accessible to students of ancient Greek. This guide shows us why Herodotus is still considered the ‘Father of History’.

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned scholars of ancient philosophy offer a running commentary on Aristotle's De motu animalium. It is in this text, one of his most intriguing works, that Aristotle sets out the general principles of animal locomotion. A philological and a philosophical introduction sketch the current state of research on this treatise, situating current thought in the context of three decades of scholarly debates. The nine contributed essays together comment on each chapter of the Aristotelian text, discussing in detail the philosophical issues that are raised across the different sections of the text. Comprehensive analyses of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle. The present volume also includes a newly reconstructed Greek text with a facing English translation by Benjamin Morison.

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as showing a master orator at work, his speeches are a prime source for the history of the period, when Athens was engaged in a doomed struggle against the rising power of Macedon under the brilliant father and son, Philip and Alexander. Demosthenes wrote for the courts, both for political trials in which he was involved and for other cases in which he acted as ghost-writer for plaintiff or defendant, and his lawcourt speeches give an unrivalled glimpse of the daily life of ancient Athens. He also played a central role in education in Greece and Rome from the Hellenistic period onward, and was imitated by the greatest of Roman orators, Cicero. This selection includes the fullest range of Demosthenes' speeches, for trials both public and private and for the assembly, in a single volume.

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed. Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of well-established volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material. Lindsay Judson provides a rigorous translation of the twelfth book (Lambda) of Aristotle's Metaphysics and a detailed philosophical commentary. Lambda is an outline for a much more extended work in metaphysics - or more accurately, since Aristotle does not use the term 'metaphysics', in what he calls 'first philosophy', the inquiry into 'the principles and causes of all things'. Aristotle discusses the principles of natural and changeable substances, which include form, matter, privation and efficient cause; he argues that principles of this sort are, at least by analogy, the principles of non-substantial items as well. In the second half of the book he turns to unchanging, immaterial substances, first arguing that there must be at least one such substance, which he calls 'God', to act as the 'prime unmoved mover', the source of all change in the natural world. He then explores the nature of God and its activity of thinking (it is the fullest exposition there is of Aristotle's extraordinary and very difficult conception of his supreme god, its goodness, and its activity), and in the course of arguing for a plurality of immaterial unmoved movers he provides important evidence for the leading astronomical theory of his day (by Eudoxus) and for his own highly impressive cosmology. The commentary on each chapter or pair of chapters is preceded by a Prologue, which sets the scene for Aristotle's often very compressed discussion, and explores the general issues raised by that discussion. The Introduction discusses the place of Lambda in the Metaphysics, and offers a solution to the problem of the unity of Aristotle's project in the book.

The growing research interest in the ANibelungenliedA and problems of heroic literature in general has also led to heightened interest in AKudrunA. The verse epic is much influenced by the ANibelungenliedA and is cast in a stanza form derived from the ANibelungenA stanza. At the same time it presents a complementary view of the events in question. Here the decline of heroism is not the main theme of the plot but its replacement by the new, gentler spirit of courtly mores. In its central section the poem is a paean to the superiority of female constancy and capacity for uncomplaining suffering over the gory heroics of the declining era.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author andhumorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which became very popular and brought nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well received. Twain had found his calling. -wikipedia

"Williams's masterful translation satisfies (at last!) a long-standing need. There are lots of good translations of Augustine's great work, but until now we have been forced to choose between those that strive to replicate in English something of the majesty and beauty of Augustine's Latin style and those that opt instead to convey the careful precision of his philosophical terminology and argumentation. Finally, Williams has succeeded in capturing both sides of Augustine's mind in a richly evocative, impeccably reliable, elegantly readable presentation of one of the most impressive achievements in Western thought-Augustine's Confessions." -Scott MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell University

There is a renewed interest in understanding traditional Chinese language and culture. The Three Character Classic: A Bilingual Reader of China's ABCs serves that purpose. Known as San Zi Jing in Chinese, it has been a literacy text since the 13th century. The Three Character Classic has stood the test of time and space through its rich content as well as its literary beauty in simplicity in style. Comparable to a pocket encyclopedia, the book overviews Chinese history and important historical works, illustrating the fundamentals of Confucianism while teaching the basics of math, sciences, music, and moral lessons. Readers will find pleasure in reading these stories, and the book serves as a key to opening more doors to the understanding of Chinese culture. About the Author Phebe Xu Gray, received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She teaches Chinese language and culture at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. She enjoys teaching, reading, traveling, doing housework, and thinking about history.

Der Band enthAlt 21 BeitrAge deutscher und italienischer Gelehrter zu den Briefen und dem Panegyricus des jA1/4ngeren Plinius, die durch genaue Interpretationen versuchen, die Gedankenwelt dieses ReprAsentanten an der Wende vom 1. zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. unter den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten (Literatur, Rhetorik, A"sthetik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Rezeption) in das Denken der RAmer seiner Zeit einzuordnen.

John Dillon presents an English translation of Alcinous' Handbook of Platonism, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary which explain the ideas in the work and show their intellectual and historical context. The Handbook purports to be an introduction to the doctrines of Plato, but in fact gives us an excellent survey of Platonist thought in the second century AD.

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English. The letters of Pliny the Younger provide a glimpse of what life at the start of the 2nd century AD was like for a member of the Roman elite, offering some insight into his roles and responsibilities, his daily concerns, and relationships both personal and professional. This wide-ranging selection includes letters of advice and praise, meditations on death and slavery, descriptions of nature or natural phenomena, and even disapproval of the Roman public's obsession with chariot-racing. Pliny shows various sides to his character and demonstrates his skill in writing, carefully constructing the persona he wants to project to posterity. Supporting resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026