Historia, antiken

Anden bog af Herodots Historie. Autentiske beretninger fra en rejse i faraonernes og pyramidernes land nedskrevet af den græske historiker Herodot for 2500 år siden. Af indholdet: det ældste folk i v …

Den foreliggende øvebog i latin er især en læsebog med lettere konstruerede og bearbejdede tekster om romersk religion og har til formål at føre religionsstuderende og religionsinteresserede læsere i …

Arrian (egtl. Lucius Flavius Arrianus) fra Nikomedia (ca. 86-160) var en romersk historiker og filosof af græsk oprindelse. Hans historiske værker er skrevet på attisk græsk, mens hans filosofiske sk …

Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was wounded and then cured by Achilles, and led Agamemnon …

In studying the Late Antique period there are different approaches: political history (fall of the West Roman Empire and its replacement by the Successor States), socio-economic history (e.g. collaps …

Although nearly all scholars acknowledge that the Metamorphoses appears to engage with pastoral poetry, there has not been a monograph specifically designed to address and explore the interaction bet …

The objective of this edited volume is to bring together contributions from the fields of Ancient Greek and Latin Philology that apply the cognitive linguistic framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory …

Defining corruption is an incredibly difficult task. Being at the same time a concept identifying illegitimate and illegal behaviors, mostly connected to positions of power, and a word indicating a p …

This volume collects 19 of the author’s essays on eighteenth-century accounts of self-consciousness, personal identity and related issues, covering over a hundred years of a philosophical debate that …

The seventeen contributions constituting this edited volume focus on archaic Greek thought — Presocratics broadly understood, including Sophists, Archaic poets, or Tragedians — and its multiform rece …