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Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern --- Scientific literature --- Technical writing --- Engineering --- Science --- Scientific writing --- Technology --- Authorship --- Communication of technical information --- Science literature --- History and criticism --- History --- History of Medicine. --- History, Ancient. --- Latein. --- Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Naturwissenschaften. --- Roman World. --- Scientific literature. --- Technical writing. --- Wissenschaftliche Literatur. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Geschichte 284-610.

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The rediscovery and reconstruction of late antiquity as an independent era with its own character represent a relatively recent product of historiographical debate, but the roots of this process are to be found already in the work of scholars of the late 19th century. Above all the idea of an age of decline and fall which marked late antiquity since Edward Gibbon's colossal 'History' has been gradually abandoned. Today, late antique studies are not only flourishing but represent perhaps one of most exciting fields within classical studies. For this volume, contemporary, internationally recognized scholars of late antiquity working in a range of academic contexts, intellectual styles, and languages (English, German, French, Italian) were invited to sketch intellectual portraits of key figures whose work decisively contributed to the emergence of what the editors of this volume call "the new late antiquity".-- Back cover.

Historians --- Historiography --- History, Ancient --- History --- Historiography. --- To 1899 --- Europe --- Histoire --- Historiographie.

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Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue : the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives : literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.

Perpetua, --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- Christian martyrs --- History --- 235.3 PERPETUA --- 272 <397> --- Hagiografie--PERPETUA --- Kerkvervolging--Africa: Numidië; Mauretanië; Cyrenaica --- History. --- Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Christianity --- Christian martyrs - Tunisia - History --- Perpetua et Felicitas mm. --- Perpetua, - Saint, - -203. - Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis

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In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical study themselves. One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies, examining the ways in which classical literature and culture have been appropriated or responded to in later ages and/or non-western cultures. This temporal and cultural expansion beyond the 'traditional' remit of the field has had many salutary effects, but reception studies are not without limitations: of particular consequence is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the most canonical Greek and Latin texts which is partly due to the sheer scale on which they have been received, adapted, discussed, and alluded to since antiquity. By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which have had no 'success', but the result of an implicit adoption of canonicity as an unspoken criterion is the marginalization of other texts which, despite their inherent value, have not experienced so significant a Nachleben. This volume seeks to move beyond the questions of what is central, what is marginal, and why, to explore instead the range and significance of the classical canon and the processes by which it is shaped and changed by its reception in different academic and cultural environments. By examining the academic study of Classics from the interrelated titular perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, it aims to unveil their many subtle implications and reopen a discussion not only about what makes the discipline unique, but also about what direction it might take in the future.

Classical literature --- Classical literature. --- History and criticism.

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