Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Latin

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae is not only the largest Latin dictionary in the world, but also the first to cover all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. 31 academies, and scholarly societies from 23 countries support the work of the Bayerische Akademie (Thesaurusburo Munchen).

Seit Jahrhunderten zahlt Catull zu den besonders haufig rezipierten antiken Dichtern. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass lateinische Autoren auch im 20. Jahrhundert auf seine Carmina anspielen. Die Autorin skizziert einen Uberblick uber die Rezeption Catulls seit der Wiederentdeckung seiner Handschrift bis zum Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts und unterscheidet dabei fur den Zeitraum 1897-2010 zwei Hauptstromungen: die lateinische Versnovelle, begrundet von G. Pascoli, und kurzere Gedichte im catullischen Stil. Anschlieend fuhrt die Autorin - nach Motiven geordnet - entsprechende Texte von A.E. Radke und...

L humaniste et juriste milanais Andre Alciat (1492-1550) est connu pour etre le createur de ce qui deviendra, au cours du XVI^e siecle, le genre de l embleme, caracterise par sa structure tripartite (inscriptio, pictura, subscriptio). L Emblematum liber, publie pour la premiere fois en 1531, reedite a de nombreuses reprises, augmente de poemes supplementaires et de nouvelles illustrations durant le XVI^e siecle, contient plus de 200 emblemes. Le present commentaire etudie un choix de 75 emblemes consacres aux animaux. L introduction aborde...

Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka Zinovieff formed special ties with Greece and made it the focus of their literary imagination. Moving from Bloomsbury to Mills & Boon, the book offers insight into the ways romantic...

From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest empires and centers of civilization, the Mediterranean generated globalization and multiculturalism. It gave birth to the three great monotheisms--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--religions of the book, of the land and of the sea. Over the centuries, the Mediterranean witnessed the rise and...

From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest empires and centers of civilization, the Mediterranean generated globalization and multiculturalism. It gave birth to the three great monotheisms--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--religions of the book, of the land and of the sea. Over the centuries, the Mediterranean witnessed the rise and...