' The central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher, Republic is essentially an enquiry into morality, but it contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy.

This volume attempts to enhance the reader's understanding of how this book of history could have such a profound effect.Chapters will address the purpose, form, and method of Roman historical writing, the ethnic biases of Tacitus, and his ...

Literature begins at Sumer, we may say.

The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith ...

Ovids Metamorphosen behandeln als »Weltgedicht« nicht die Taten eines einzelnen Helden, sondern die gesamte Weltgeschichte vom Chaos bis in die augusteische Zeit.

A compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans during the middle and later Republic.

Being written in Medina the book can be taken as a document that reflects the attitude of its people to the basic ideas concerning the concept of love and how it was reflected theoretically and in the corpus of Arabic love literature.

By looking at aspects of "Medea" that are largely overlooked in the criticism, this book aims at an open and multiple reading.

This book is concerned with the position which relative clauses occupy with respect to the main clause in the history of English.

These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orators as Lysias, Antiphon, and Demosthenes.