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Mythen multimedial
Etwa seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein internationaler und nach wie vor anhaltender Boom von Adaptionen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie und Historie zu verzeichnen. Dieser ist durch eine bemerkenswerte mediale Vielfalt und Vernetzungsfreude gekennzeichnet. Folglich erstreckt sich die „modernste Antike“ unserer Zeit nicht nur auf hochliterarische Texte oder Neuinszenierungen antiker Dramen auf dem Theater, sondern entfaltet auch in gegenwärtigen Massenmedien vom Historienroman, dem Comic bis hin zum Hypermedium Themenpark und zum Alltagsmedium Internet seinen Wandlungsreichtum. Mithin scheint die Zeit der postmodernen Renaissance der Antike angebrochen zu sein. Die vielschichtigen P...
Heroen - Helden
Eine Literaturgeschichte des exorbitanten Heros, die unser Sprechen über Helden heute auf eine neue Grundlage stellt. Das Buch zeichnet eine Geschichte der abendländischen Vorstellung von Heldentum nach, die bislang ungeschrieben ist. Es zeigt, inwiefern die Vorstellung von einem Helden, wie sie in der antiken und mittelalterlichen Heldenepik geprägt worden war, in Moderne und Gegenwart wirksam geblieben ist. Die Beiträge des Buches führen zunächst die heldenepische Vorstellung eines Helden vor, der durch menschliches Übermaß und soziale Destruktivität (Exorbitanz) charakterisiert ist (»Ilias«, »Beowulf«, »Nibelungenlied«, »Edda« und Sagas, »Chanson de Roland«, »Cid«). D...
Folia ventis turbata
Sibyllinische Orakeltexte und die mit ihnen verbundene Divinationsgottheit Apollon erfuhren in Rom eine ganz besondere Form der Wirkungsgeschichte. Eine der vier höchsten römischen Priesterschaften, die quindecimviri sacris faciundis, waren mit ihrer Verwahrung und Konsultation betraut. Dem ersten römischen Kaiser Augustus wiederum wird von der Forschung seit langem eine enge persönliche Beziehung zu Apollon zugeschrieben. Die Studie untersucht die konkrete Rolle, welche sibyllinischen Orakeln und dem besagten Gott während der Krise der späten römischen Republik und der ersten Jahrzehnte des augusteischen Principats zukam.
The Economics Book
All your complicated economic questions and theories explained by world experts. Economics is a broad topic and if you're not an economist by profession, your knowledge might be limited - until now! The Economics Book is your jargon-free, visual guide to understanding the production and distribution of wealth. Using a combination of authoritative, clear text, and bold graphics, this encyclopedia explores and explains big questions and issues that affect us all - everything from taxation, to recession, to the housing market and much more! By following an innovative visual approach, The Economics Bookdemystifies and untangles complicated theories. Make sense of abstract concepts through colour...
Peace
"From saying hello and pronouncing your friend's name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I'm sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it"--
The Global Innovation Index 2014
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 143 countries and economies around the world, based on 81 indicators. This edition explores the role of the individuals and teams behind the innovation process. It sheds light on different aspects of human capital required to achieve innovation, including skilled labor; the intersection of human, financial and technological capital; talent retention; and the mobilization of highly educated people.
Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World
Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory, and were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have often been examined, few studies have taken a more gene...
The Art of Love
The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.
A Quest for Remembrance
A Quest for Remembrance brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory.
The Aeneid and the Modern World
"This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid which aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "why should we still think about the Aeneid ?" The book contains chapters detailing previously undocumented modern literary receptions of Vergil's epic, addressing the Aeneid's relevance to understanding modern political discourse, explaining how the Aeneid assists in making sense of the pressing current issues of trauma and damage to one's sense of identity, and even looking at how the epic can shape our future. The chapters build upon and extend bey...
