Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad,...  Read More >>

Nicole Rupschus berührt in ihrer Studie klassische und aktuelle Themen der Qumranforschung, die sich in der Frage...  Read More >>

Barbara Patzek offers students a concise overview of a central theme in Greek history while introducing historiographical...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis has an outstanding position in ancient literature being at the same time a pagan and a Christian...  Read More >>

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity demonstrates the variety of ways in which ancient readers...  Read More >>

Scapulimancy, a divination technique that uses the shoulder blades of ruminants, dates back to the earliest times...  Read More >>

"""Time"" and ""Space"" are core notions in understanding ancient world and its internal mechanisms. The present...  Read More >>

In this companion volume to the new Editio Teubneriana of Carmina Profana by Dracontius (ca. 480-510 CE), the first...  Read More >>

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This volume includes contributions from a team of international experts who address topics lying at the forefront...  Read More >>

Die im Band enthaltenen Aufsätze zeigen den Rhein als Kommunikationsachse enormer Dynamik, die die Schweiz und den...  Read More >>

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns....  Read More >>

A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.  Read More >>

The patriarch Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi headed the independent Jewish leadership institutions in Roman Palestine at the...  Read More >>

In this study, Stephen Germany investigates the literary development of the non-priestly narratives in Exod 1-18;...  Read More >>

Dante's British Public examines the many and various ways in which the work of the leading poet of medieval Europe...  Read More >>

English summary: The story of Turandot is one of the most famous and influential tales from the Islamic Orient....  Read More >>

This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae. Book 31 describes the Gothic invasion...  Read More >>

This study examines the treatment of physical pain in a selection of classical Greek plays and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic framework for the emerging field of Mediterranean studies, collecting essays from...  Read More >>

The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny...  Read More >>

Samuel Butler developed a theory that the Odyssey came from the pen of a young Sicilian woman, and that the scenes...  Read More >>

This volume examines the historical end of the Platonic tradition in relation to creation theories of the natural...  Read More >>

In Essays on Turkish Literature and History Barbara Flemming offers findings gained through lifelong scholarship....  Read More >>

Livres I, II des Histoires [expliqués littéralement, annotés et revus pour la traduction française par M. de Parnajon]...  Read More >>