Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - General

• Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar
• Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles
• Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar
  

Dieser Band enthalt die erste kritische Ausgabe eines aus dem XV. Jahrhundert stammenden umfangreichen Werkes, das einerseits fur die Rekonstruktion des geistigen Klimas zur Zeit des Humanismus vor allem in Ferrara von groer Bedeutung ist und andererseits eine gundsatzliche Synthese allgemeinen humanistischen Denkens darstellt. Politia litteraria meint dabei weniger "sprachlich-literarischer Zirkel" als vielmehr "Verfeinerung des (lateinischen) Ausdrucks." Die bisherigen Ausgaben waren entweder nur schwer zuganglich (Codex Vat. Lat. 1794) oder luckenhaft (Druckausgabe Basel 1562) und...

In her work, the historian Anna Komnene (1083 to approx. 1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, deals with the period of her father's reign from his first successes as a youthful army commander and his successful rebellion up to his death. She includes an account of the First Crusade from a Byzantine perspective and draws impressive portraits of the protagonists. Together with the works of Michael Psellos and Niketas Choniates, her account belongs to the most brilliant achievements of Byzantine historiography.

This new critical edition contains numerous textual...

This fundamentally new interpretation of the Partitiones oratoriae shows the small dialogue to be a demanding compendium of the whole system of rhetorical doctrine and places it at the centre of a specifically Ciceronian concept of rhetoric. By drawing upon Cicero's other philosophical and rhetorical works, the author reveals the political relevance: Cicero's learned writings present criteria for the selection of suitable politicians, to whom powers of decision-making should only be given after they have proved themselves to have studied and to possess methodical abilities. Thus...

The only manuscript preserving this collection of letters, in the British Library, is damaged at the beginning, thus depriving us of the author's name. However, the letters of the Anonymous Professor, a scholar and headmaster of a private school in Constantinople in the mid tenth century, comprise an important source for our knowledge of education and intellectual life in Byzantium in this period. The present edition, which aims to fulfil the need expressed by many scholars for a new, fully annotated critical edition of the letters, attempts to reconstruct the main events in the life of...

Wer auch immer sich fur eine Theorie moralischer bzw. humaner Praxis interessiert, findet in der "Nikomachischen Ethik" des Aristoteles eines der wenigen bis heute einschlagigen Grundmodelle. Im Mittelpunkt der ebenso nuchternen wie umsichtigen Analyse stehen u. a. die Begriffe Gluck, Tugend, Entscheidung, Klugheit, Unbeherrschtheit, Lust und Freundschaft. Die Aristotelischen Ausfuhrungen sind keineswegs nur von historischem Interesse, sondern uben auch auf die ethische Debatte der Gegenwart entscheidenden Einflu aus. Die 13 Beitrage dieses Bandes legen in Form eines kooperativen...