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Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1^st century BCE to the 2^nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of authors.

• A unique single volume text that makes classical letters accessible and readable to undergraduates and the non-specialist reader
• Presents a wide range of authors and material, with over 200 selected texts
• Includes selections that...

Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1^st century BCE to the 2^nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of authors.

• A unique single volume text that makes classical letters accessible and readable to undergraduates and the non-specialist reader
• Presents a wide range of authors and material, with over 200 selected texts
• Includes selections that...

The essays in this collection all illustrate the vitality of Neo-Latin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its productive combination of classical models with deep-rooted vernacular traditions. While the plays were often composed in the context of a school or university setting, the dramatists seldom neglected the need to appeal to a broad audience, including non-Latinists. Yet the use of Latin, and the ambiguity of a plurivocal literary form, allowed the authors of these plays to introduce messages and ideas that could be subversive of the prevailing political and religious...

Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intellectual, and even geographic landscape was profoundly changed by the Reformation, humanism, the rise of empirical science, the invention of printing technology, and the colonization of the Americas. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt an urgent need to respond to the changes they were involved in, and to come to a revision and reauthorization of knowledge. They embarked on a scholarly program of a quality and extent hitherto unknown in the Western world: the whole body of the literature of antiquity, including the...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische Praefatio erganzt.

Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team anerkannter Philologen:

Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
James Diggle (University of Cambridge)
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
Franco...

The volumes published in the series "Beitrage zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to the Ancient Studies.