englischThe volume is committed to the reconstruction of Plato's relationship with the past in literary, socio-economic, and political contexts. The past is analysed as a real “resource” from which content can be drawn for reinterpretation and resemantisation. The analysis shows how Plato develops a [...]

englischKepler (Weil der Stadt 1571-1630 Regensburg) is well known as an astronomer, mathematician and optician. He is less familiar as a poet. But the 24-year-old’s very first astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum begins with two short poems and ends with a hymn in 32 hexameter lines to God [...]

englischBased on approaches accepted in Classical Philology as well as on folkloristics, this book defends the theory of Émile Dermenghem, who affirms the Amazigh (“Berber”) origin of the tale of Psyche and Cupid. In North Africa, are the oral counterparts of the Latin narrative of Apuleius (ATU [...]

englischFor a long time, research on the ancient fable, a genre that has significantly influenced the development of modern literature, was limited almost exclusively to questions of textual tradition or the history of motifs. In recent years, however, a new research approach has increasingly gained [...]

englischThe Attic tragedians associate the female lament articulated in a high-pitched voice with the nightingale. But how does the tragedians' use of the image of the lamenting nightingale present itself as a metapoetic reference within their reading of the myth? In what ways can we interpret the [...]

Nicht selten wird die metrische Analyse heute mit Vorbehalten betrachtet; auch in der akademischen Lehre findet sie oft nur wenig Raum. Die vorliegende Ausgabe des plautinischen Pseudolus zeigt jedoch, welche entscheidende Rolle dem Metrum für das Verständnis des antiken Theaters zukommt, das [...]

englischThis volume marks the two-thousandth anniversary of the princeps' death with a series of studies that offer new approaches to the Roman ruler Augustus and his reign. The thematically wide-ranging contributions focus on central topics of Augustus research from the perspective of the 21st [...]

englischIn recent scholarship, the term ‘resource’ means more than just raw materials. In fact, it is the socio-cultural evaluation of material and immaterial means by communities or societies that researchers see as crucial for the formation and use of resources. This volume contains approaches [...]

englischIn the rural world described by Hesiod in his Works and Days, success requires much more than prosaic knowledge of agricultural work processes. Especially, the willingness to work and the awareness of the justice given to mankind by Zeus are, according to Hesiod, crucial criteria for living [...]

englischSextus Pompeius Festus’ De verborum significatione, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Latin words, is a text with a difficult tradition: it was led to humanistic age by a codex unicus, incomplete and damaged by fire; after its rediscovery, it suffered the further loss of some quires which [...]