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Brill's Companion to Seneca
This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.
Standards - Margins - New Horizons
Ausgehend von den Befunden der New London Group, die tiefgreifende Veränderungen im Arbeitsleben, im Privatleben und im öffentlichen Leben in der westlichen Gesellschaft feststellte, widmet sich das Themenheft der Frage, wie Fremdsprachenunterricht im 21. Jahrhundert in den neuen und alten Sprachen gestaltet werden soll. Im Vordergrund stehen die Fragen, auf welche Weise Lernende auf die zunehmend komplexen kommunikativen Herausforderungen vorbereitet werden können, die eine kulturell diversifizierte Welt bietet, und wie gleichzeitig einer (wachsenden) Heterogenität von Lerngruppen Rechnung ge tragen werden kann. Die vierzehn Beiträge sind in sechs Sektionen untergliedert: Sprachbildung; Sprachliche Vielfalt; Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität; Re zeption von Literatur, Kultur und Medialität; Literatur, Religion und Musik in he terogenen Lerngruppen; Digitalität, Digitalisierung und digitaler Wandel. Die The menfelder werden im Dialog zwischen Neu- und Altphilologien (v.a. Anglistik und Latein, aber auch Romanistik) sowie der Musikpädagogik behandelt.
Confucius and Cicero
This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a reference work for the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek) and Eastern thought, setting new trends in the panorama of Classical and Comparative Studies.
Healing Grief
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia’s grief and correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts different traditions and voices – from Greek consolations to Plato’s dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and exemplarity to epic poetry – to a Stoic framework, so as to give his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the ineluctability of natural laws.
Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition
In this monograph, Alex W. Muir shows how Paul and Seneca were significant contributors to an ancient philosophical and rhetorical tradition of consolation. Each writer's consolatory career is surveyed in turn through close readings of key primary texts: chiefly Seneca's three literary consolations and 'Epistles'; and Paul's letters, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, and Philippians. A final comparative dialogue highlights the pair's adaptations and innovations within this tradition.
Juno's Aeneid
A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of ...
Humanistica Lovaniensia
As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity. It offers an in-depth look at different approaches employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of Paul. The volume houses an international team of scholars from a range of diverse traditions and backgrounds, which opens up a platform for multiple voices from various corridors. Consequently, some of the chapters seek to establish new potential resonances with Paul and the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition, but others question such connections. While a number of them propose radically new relationships between Paul and GrecoRoman philosophy, a few seek to tweak or modulate current discussions. There are arguments in the volume which are more technical and exegetical, and others that remain more synthetic and theological. This diversity, however, is accentuated by a goal shared by each author – to further our understanding of Paul's relationship to and appropriation of Greco-Roman philosophical traditions in his literary and missionary efforts.
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE
A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.
Dunkles Donautal
Ein brutaler Mord führt die junge Kommissarin Tilda Marder zurück in ihr Heimatdorf im Donautal. Die Leiche des 16-jährigen Peter wird an einem Aussichtspunkt gefunden, aus seinem Hals ragt ein schwarzes Kreuz. Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf Freunde des Opfers, drei Brüder, die Außenseiter im Dorf sind. Während ihrer Ermittlungen wird Tilda mit ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Ein Gefühlswirrwarr zwischen Weggehen und Ankommen, zwischen Dazugehören und sich fremd fühlen. Eine erste Spur führt Tilda zu einer heruntergekommenen Waldhütte - und einem weiteren Grab zwischen den Bäumen.
