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The series "Beitrage zur Altertumskunde" was founded in 1990. It mainly contains monographs and conference proceedings in German, but also includes texts, translations and commentaries on classical works which have had a long-lasting impact. The individual volumes of the series are useful aids to study, and represent a significant advance in our knowledge of the ancient world. Some eight volumes are published every year.

In den jahrzehntelangen Vorarbeiten zu seiner weltweit so beachteten Homerausgabe hat der Editor viele interessante und zugleich neue Details zur Textuberlieferung gewonnen, die er nunmehr in einer Spezialmonographie zusammengefasst hat. Somit wird der Homerforscher in die neusten Ergebnisse zu Textproblemen in Homers Ilias eingefuhrt; und bestimmte editorische Entscheidungen von West sind fur den Fachmann klarer nachzuvollziehen.

"Adequacy lawsuits" have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America. Plaintiffs allege insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of education promised in their state's constitution, hoping the courts will step in and order the state to increase its level of aid. Since 1980, 45 of the 50 states have faced such suits. How pervasive --and effective --is this trend? What are its ramifications, at the school district level and on a broader scope? This important new book addresses these questions. The contributors consider the legal...

In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called "Pontiac's War." Brokering a truce without violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and Shawnees to release all of their European and Colonial American captives. For the indigenous Ohio peoples, nothing was more wrenching and sorrowful than returning children from mixed parentage and adopted members of their families, many of whom had no memory of their former status or were unwilling to relinquish Native American...

In der 1968 gegrundeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bande weisen eine groe Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spatantike. Entscheidend fur die Aufnahme ist die Qualitat einer Arbeit; besonderen Wert legen die Herausgeber auf eine umfassende Heranziehung der einschlagigen Texte und Quellen und deren sorgfaltige...