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Der Doppelband umfasst zum einen das als "Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte" (B 1) bekannte, aber nicht mehr im Original erhaltene lateinische Geschichtswerk aus dem 4. Jahrhundert, das hier als Rekonstruktion auf der Basis späterer Autoren vorgelegt wird. Zum anderen enthält der Band das um 370 n. Chr. verfasste Breviarium des Rufius Festus (B 4), der zu den Benutzern der "Enmannschen Kaisergeschichte" gehörte und in seinem knappen Werk die Expansion des Imperium Romanum anhand der einzelnen Provinzen nachzeichnete. Der lateinische Originaltext des Breviarium wird von einer deutschen Übersetzung und einem philologisch-historischen Kommentar begleitet.

Ancient History --- Classical Studies

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This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine’s foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city’s sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence.

Ancient History. --- Classical Studies. --- History.

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This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the dispositions and psychological states of temperance, self-control, chastity, sanity and moderation. The Greek novels are the first examples of lengthy prose fiction in the Greek world, composed between the first century BCE and the fourth century CE. Each novel is concerned with a pair of beautiful, aristocratic lovers who undergo trials and tribulations, before a successful resolution is reached. Bird focuses on the extant examples of the genre (Chariton's Callirhoe, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon and Heliodorus' Aethiopica), which all have the virtue of sophrosune at their heart. As each pair of lovers strives to retain their chastity in the face of adversity, and under extreme pressure from eros, it is essential to understand how this virtue is represented in the characters within each novel. Invited modes of reading also involve sophrosune, and the author provides an important exploration of how sophrosune in the reader is both encouraged and undermined by these works of fiction.

Greek fiction --- Temperance (Virtue) in literature --- Classical Studies & Archaeology --- Ancient Greek Literature (Classical Studies) --- Ancient Philosophy (Classical Studies) --- Ancient Novel (Classical Studies) --- History and criticism

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Xerxes, Perikles, Alexander der Große - die Staatsmänner und Feldherrn, Könige und Tyrannen, die mythischen Gründerfiguren der griechischen Antike einschließlich etwa der Perser, Parther und der hellenistischen Dynastien werden in diesem kleinen Lexikon mit den wichtigsten Taten und Daten versammelt. Knappe und zuverlässige Informationen zu den wichtigsten historischen Gestalten der griechischen Antike.

Philology. --- History, Ancient. --- Classical Studies. --- Ancient History.