IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. the First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]

IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. the First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]
Author: Pietro Zaccaria
Publisher: Die Fragmente Der Griechischen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004209138

In FGrHist IV A 5, Pietro Zaccaria offers the first complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography preserved in fragments. The volume contains a critical edition, with English translation and comprehensive commentary, of more than one hundred fragments from eleven Greek biographers.

Reading Śiva

Reading Śiva
Author: Ellen Raven
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004473009

An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.

From Homer to Solon

From Homer to Solon
Author: Johannes C. Bernhardt
Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004513624

"The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term developments and continuities. After an introduction to the state of research, the volume offers a wide range of studies under the headings "Approaches on early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States," and "Leaders and Reformers" ranging from Homer to Solon and circling around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece"--

Parables on a Roman Comic Stage: Samarites — Comoedia de Samaritano Evangelico (1539) by Petrus Papeus

Parables on a Roman Comic Stage: Samarites — Comoedia de Samaritano Evangelico (1539) by Petrus Papeus
Author: Daniel J. Nodes
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 900434019X

The Samarites by Petrus Papeus offers an effective blending of gospel narrative and ancient Roman comedy, combining manner of Plautus and Terence with the didacticism of medieval allegory and morality plays and the poetic diction of Renaissance humanism. In the Samarites they are the ingredients that present both moral and doctrinal teachings related to the gospel parables of the Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan. Papeus’ work is an excellent example not only of the early modern school play, but also of the shifting conceptions of drama in Europe at that time. Daniel Nodes presents a critical edition and translation of the play together with a humanist commentary produced in Toledo by Alexius Vanegas three years after the play’s first printing in Antwerp.

Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004511407

This volume breaks new ground by exploring how the political actors of different formal statuses, age, and gender were able to “take the lead” in ancient Rome through initiating communication, proposing new solutions, and prompting others to act.

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese
Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Chinese language
ISBN: 9789004325135

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese is the long-desired Chinese - English reference work for all those reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty, and beyond. Comprising 8,000+ characters, arranged alphabetically by Pinyin, with an index by "radical" and stroke- count, and various appendices, including one with reign-eras and exact accession dates of emperors according to both Chinese and Western calendars.

A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570-1792

A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570-1792
Author: Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher: Library of the Written Word
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004503779

This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.