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The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and……続きを見る

Adéntrate en un viaje apasionante a través de los misterios y maravillas de la mitología y las leyendas de todo el mundo. Este diccionario es una puerta de entrada a un vasto universo de relatos y n……続きを見る

This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the translation activity of Greek women translators in the nineteenth century, illuminating the role of translation as a means of resistance against soc……続きを見る

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty, and include four translated into English for this ……続きを見る

Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire's culture, theology, and econo……続きを見る

Along with Homer, Hesiod was one of the Ancient Greeks first epic bards, and one of their best. Hesiod is believed to have lived between 750 and 650 B.C., and along with Homer it was Hesiods work th……続きを見る

For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first ……続きを見る

Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignoredーeven as the study of ancient medicine has ex……続きを見る

La Grecia clásica, una civilización entre la mitología y la realidad, donde dioses y hombres convivieron y lucharon entre sí para hacerse un lugar en la posteridad, mientras artistas y filósosfos po……続きを見る

Extrait : Commençons notre chant par les Muses, habitantes du haut et divin Hélicon, qui, près d’une noire fontaine, devant l’autel du puissant fils de Cronos, mènent des danses légères ; qui, après……続きを見る

In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily fit the generic mode……続きを見る

Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Hesiod composed the Theogony an……続きを見る

Ons beeld van de prehistorie wordt grotendeels bepaald door illustraties en dioramas in musea waarop mannelijke jagers gehuld in dierenhuiden onverschrokken een mammoet aanvallen terwijl de vrouwen ……続きを見る

'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hellenistic origin or redaction of most of these nar……続きを見る

Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime ……続きを見る

Cassiodore - De l'âme Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, homme politique et écrivain latin (485-580) Traduction de Stéphane de Rouville, 1874 Ce livre numérique pr&ea……続きを見る

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Base……続きを見る

One of the great Christian scholars of antiquity and a high-ranking public official under Theoderic, King of the Ostrogoths, Cassiodorus compiled edicts, diplomatic letters, and legal documents whil……続きを見る

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on th……続きを見る

Extrait : Commençons notre chant par les Muses, habitantes du haut et divin Hélicon, qui, près d’une noire fontaine, devant l’autel du puissant fils de Cronos, mènent des danses légères ; qui, après……続きを見る