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Burning from the Inside
  • Language: en

Burning from the Inside

Getting caught is nothing new for graffiti-writer Thom, but this time it lands him in a youth detention centre. He's offered a chance to clean his record -- if he can infiltrate and inform on a group of writers known as the G7. Writing under his new identity, TNT, Thom gets the attention of the G7 ... and the admiration of one of their members. Aura keeps having the dream: the one where her writer idol Story shows her The Ten -- a legendary work of graffiti that holds the promise of quintessential truths. Aura's obsession surrounding Story intensifies when a new graf bomber starts appearing over town: TNT. Not usually one for signs, Aura comes to believe that he is meant to show her the way to Tiger Mountain, the secret location of The Ten. In her search for the truth about Story, Aura is blind to the lies surrounding TNT. And as Thom gets closer to the G7, he questions the motives of the cop who put him up to it -- and his wonders whether his own motives have changed.

The Candy Darlings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Candy Darlings

A girl, grieving for her dead mother and emotionally detached from her father, becomes fast friends with a mysterious classmate who constantly eats sweets as the two of them battle the vicious popular girls at school and listen to the stories of an elderly patient at the hospital where they volunteer.

James among the Classicists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

James among the Classicists

This book gives attention to the language and style of the letter of James, with a hypothesis about its rhetorical purpose in mind. It focuses on what we can learn about the author of James, by reading the text in light of a guiding research question: How does the author establish and assert authority? The letter builds literary authority for a number of purposes, one of which is to address socioeconomic disparity, a major concern for the author. The author of James presents a speech-in-character in the shape of a letter to establish his ethos (Ch. 2), employing vocabulary and style to signal his education implicitly (Ch. 3 & 4) and includes himself in the categories of sage, teacher and exe...

Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band VII (Oktober 1531 - März 1532)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 695

Martin Bucer Briefwechsel/Correspondance: Band VII (Oktober 1531 - März 1532)

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  • Published: 2008-10-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Unlike most theologians of his age, Martin Bucer proved to be farsighted with respect to European affairs: In addition to his contacts within Alsace and Germany he established relations with almost every European country. It was his ecumenical attitude that always led him to mediate between the parties in the religious battles of his time. His deep commitment to the goal of reaching agreement can be traced in all his activities, works and letters. Since the first editor, Jean Rott (Strasbourg), died in 1998, Bucer's correspondence has been edited in Erlangen. This academic edition of source material provides future research with a broad basis for significant aspects of Reformation history about which very little is known. Volume VII covers the period from October 1531 to March 1532.

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 507

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

The “Events after Homer”, described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presented here summarizes the results of the first international conference on Quintus Smyrnaeus.

Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults

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  • Published: 2016-11-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The Classics and Children's Literature between West and East a team of contributors from different continents offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in children’s and young adults’ literature by applying regional perspectives.

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke—that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to q...

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece

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  • Published: 2016-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Ascl...

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times

Teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging, to say the least. This volume comprises six articles in which 14 classicists tell us how they met some of these new challenges. They also share their thoughts on what these new developments could mean for the future of their profession.

Latinitas Perennis. Volume II: Appropriation and Latin Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Latinitas Perennis. Volume II: Appropriation and Latin Literature

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  • Published: 2009-06-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The contributions in this volume analyze different moments of intercultural negotiation within the history of Latin literature (in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times) and look into the dynamic process of appropriation that guarantees its continuity.