Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

This volume compiles contemporary records of the ancient polemic against stoicism a doctrine whose rigid notions led to perpetual conflict about its image of the world and of man. The texts are arranged according to the nature and mode of their argument against stoicism: skeptical anti-dogmatism, stoical self-critique, satirical parody, polemical rejection, critical distancing, and narrative depiction.

Der Band umfasst die spatantiken Inschriften des 4.-6.Jh. n.Chr. aus Korinth und Umgebung, vor allem Grabinschriften, aber auch kaiserliche Reskripte, Weihungen und Invokationen. Die grosse Zahl der Inschriften belegt eindrucksvoll die fuhrende Stellung Korinths auf der Peloponnes in dieser Zeit. Der Band enthalt neben den kommentierten Texten (darunter 117 inedita) ausfuhrliche Indices und Abbildungen aller noch vorhandenen Inschriften.

Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. 125 AD in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, where he began a lifelong allegiance to Platonic philosophy. In the later 150s, he married Pudentilla of Oea, a wealthy widow, and seems to have enjoyed a distinguished public career in Africa and perhaps as an advocate in Rome.

Although Apuleius is best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass (LCL 44, 453), he also wrote and declaimed on a wide...

Die Reihe Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) umfasst philologisch abgesicherte, kritische Editionen lateinischer Texte der christlichen Spatantike von Tertullian bis Gregor dem Groen und erschliet damit Werke der patristischen Epoche des lateinischen Westens fur den Zeitraum vom spaten zweiten bis in das fruhe siebente Jahrhundert fur alle jene Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, die sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Spatantike befassen. Die Bande des Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum werden unter Mitarbeit international renommierter Editoren auf...

The need for a new critical edition of Philip Melanchthon's philosophical works is particularly clear in the case of his writings on rhetoric. That Melanchthon played a central role in the transformation of the ancient discipline has been well established by historians. His writings on rhetoric have proven significant sources for several academic fields, including church history, Scriptural interpretation, the history of science, and the reception of classical literature. Remarkably, two of the three principal writings have not been published in their entirety since the sixteenth century....

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 (Thesaurusbüro München).