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Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and … Read more
This volume evaluates a single element of tragic art, namely the way in which narrative descriptions of place participate in the poetry of tragedy. They … Read more
This study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their … Read more
This volume deals with the architectural history of the theatre in Roman Palestine and Provincia Arabia, a region which comprised a Jewish, Nabataean, and Hellenized … Read more
The studies in this collection deal with a variety of subjects. Their focus is the Roman Empire in the East, the Roman army, Judaea in … Read more
This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and … Read more
This is the long-awaited first book-form result of the author s pioneering interdisciplinary research on a key problem for understanding Chinese texts, and, therewith, China: … Read more
Title: The Textual Tradition of Plato’s Republic Author: G. J. Boter ISBN: 9789004087873,9004087877 Publisher: BRILL Genre: History / Ancient / General Date Published: 1989 Pages: … Read more
The epic poem the Thebaid by P. Papinius Statius, written about AD 80 to 92, deals with the fraternal strife between Oedipus’ sons Eteocles and … Read more
A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary … Read more
This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. … Read more