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The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an...

The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue....

Nach dem Ende der romischen Republik stellte sich fur Augustus und seine Nachfolger die Aufgabe einer Restabilisierung der sozialen und politischen Ordnung. Die Orientierung an uberkommenen Werten war fur dieses Unternehmen von groer Bedeutung. Der aus dem Dresdener Sonderforschungsbereich "Institutionalitat und Geschichtlichkeit" hervorgegangene Sammelband befasst sich mit dem Verhaltnis romischer Werte zu den politischen Strategien und den veranderten sozialen Rollen der fruhen Prinzipatszeit im Horizont der zeitgenossischen literarischen Kommunikation.