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Ein literarischer Prometheus : Lukian aus Samosata und die Zweite Sophistik
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ISBN: 9783825364601 Year: 2017 Publisher: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter,

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This book offers a discriminating overview of Lucian's work, explains his place in the literature and culture of the Roman Empire, takes a look behind the authorial masks, analyzes the poiesis of his most important literary inventions—the comic dialogues—and discusses questions of the staging, publication, and translation of his works.

Figures of antiquity and their reception in art, literature and music
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ISBN: 9789004339323 9789004299924 9789004153202 9789004167834 9004167838 9789004171565 9004171568 9004153209 9789004183308 9789004218932 9789004299900 9789004299924 9789004339330 9004183302 9004218939 9004299904 9004299920 9004339329 Year: 2016 Volume: 1. 1 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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"Alexander the Great, Caesar, Caligula, Cicero, Cleopatra, Diogenes, Hypatia, Leonidas, Lucretia, Nero, Sappho and Socrates--all famous women and men from Antiquity who have fascinated across the centuries that divide us from them. We encounter them again and again in literature, art, music, film and new media forms such as graphic novels. The 96 contributions in Brill's New Pauly Supplement 7: Historical Figures from Antiquity written by an international team of scholars depict the survival of these great characters from Antiquity to the modern world. Each article presents an overview of the latest research on what we know concerning the lives of the historical person or legendary figure and then recounts the reception of these figures throughout history, giving special attention on the viewpoints in the early modern and contemporary periods. Turning the spotlight on the leitmotifs of established images and theories allows the reader to reassess the importance of these figures in our history and culture"

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Civilization, Classical --- Civilization, Classical. --- Classical literature --- Europe --- Civilization --- Classical influences. --- History of civilization --- Latin literature: authors --- Classical Greek literature: authors --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Ancient history --- Comparative religion --- Iconography --- mythology [literary genre] --- receptiegeschiedenis --- influence --- biographies [literary works] --- Antiquity --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Chronology, Historical --- History, Ancient --- Kings and rulers, Ancient --- Histoire ancienne --- Civilisation classique --- Rois et souverains --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature latine --- Écrivains latins --- Écrivains grecs --- Géographie antique --- Chronologie. --- Encyclopédies. --- Antiquité --- Dictionnaires anglais. --- Cartes. --- Authors, Greek --- Greek literature --- Authors, Latin --- Latin literature --- Authors, Classical --- Humanism --- Civilization, Modern --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Classical dictionaries --- Mythology, Classical, in art --- Mythology, classical, in literature --- Mythology, Classical, in music --- Mediterranean Region --- Chronology, Historical. --- Kings and rulers, Ancient. --- Literature, Modern --- Art, Modern. --- Music --- Appreciation --- History. --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- Civilization, Western --- Classical biography --- Biography --- Public opinion --- Biography in literature --- Biography in art --- Mythology, Classical, in literature --- Mythology in literature --- Art and mythology --- Comparative literature --- Mythology --- European literature --- Geography, Ancient --- Civilization, Ancient --- Historical geography --- Géographie ancienne --- Civilisation ancienne --- Géographie historique --- Chronologie historique --- Rois et souverains anciens --- Chronologie


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Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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ISBN: 9783110212532 3110212536 9783110212525 3110212528 9786612714627 1282714627 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, "barbarians" and "civilized" people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices.This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies. The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. This volume shows that boundaries are constantly negotiated, shifted and refigured through the practices and potentialities of embodiment.

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