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Die arabischen Ubersetzungen antiker landwirtschaftlicher Werke sind bisher kaum untersucht worden. Die im vorliegenden Prolegomena-Band gebotene Rekonstruktion der arabischen Tradition zeigt die Bedeutung der Ubersetzungen fur die arabische landwirtschaftliche Literatur auf und ermoglicht es, die Frage der Genese der byzantinischen Geoponika zu erhellen. Diese Einfuhrung ist daher fur Altertumswissenschaftler und fur Orientalisten von Nutzen.

For the modern reader, the use of direct speech, which is normally fictional, is one of the most remarkable features of ancient historiography. On the basis of a study of the rhetorical form and of the motifs employed in speeches by Herodotus and Thucydides, the author is able to expound systematically for the first time the similarities and differences in the employment of this characteristic tool in the works of the two historians, and to undertake a comparison with the options available to modern historical works.

Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual elite of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be considered the "father of Christian chronography," since he authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae). However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military,...