Ancient Greek and Roman
De Gruyter Hypatia: The True Story
Book SynopsisThis study reconstructs Hypatia’s existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and medieval sources as well as the history of the reception of the figure of Hypatia in later history, literature, and arts in order to illuminate the ideological transformations/deformations of her story throughout the centuries and recover “the true story”. The intentionally provocative title relates to the contemporary historiographical notion of “false” or “fake history”, as does the overall conceptual and methodological treatment. Through this reception-oriented approach, this study suggests a new reading of the ancient sources that demonstrates the intrinsically political nature of the murder of Hypatia, caused by the phtonos (violent envy) of the Christian bishop Cyril of Alexandria. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the figure of Hypatia addressed to both academic readers – in Classics, Religious Studies, and Reception Studies – and a learned, non-specialist readership. Revised edition in paperback.
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Cambridge University Press Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
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Cambridge University Press Platos Charmides
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Cambridge University Press Imagining the Roman Emperor
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Cambridge University Press The Old Oligarch
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Bibliography; 3. The terminology used to refer to oligarchs and democrats; 4. A note on the translation; 5. The Constitution of the Athenians: translation and commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin Volume 1 4501066
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450–1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Fifth Century; I. 1 Patrick, Confession; SIXTH CENTURY; I. 2 Gildas, The ruin of Britain; SEVENTH CENTURY; I. 3 The earliest charters: Chertsey: BACS 19 (Chertsey Abbey) no.1; Thanet: BACS 17 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 2; I. 4 Theodore of Canterbury, Laterculus Malalianus; and the Poem in praise of Hædde; I. 5 Descriptions of the Holy Land: Adomnán and Bede on the holy places; I. 6 Aldhelm, On virginity (prose); Letter 5 to Heahfrith; I. 7 Riddles: Aldhelm; Tatwine; Hwætberht; Boniface; EIGHTH CENTURY; I. 8 The Life of Gregory the Great (Anon.of Whitby); I. 9 Burginda, Letter to a young man; I. 10 Bede, Educational writings: on grammar and rhetoric; and on the reckoning of time; I. 11 Two Lives of Cuthbert: Anonymous (prose); Bede (verse and prose); I. 12 Wealdhere, Letter to Berhtwald of Canterbury; I. 13 Berhtwald of Canterbury, Letter about a slave girl; I. 14 Ælfflæd of Whitby, Letter to an abbess in Germany; I. 15 Eddi, The Life of Wilfrid; I. 16 Two Lives of Ceolfrith: Anonymous and Bede; I. 17 Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; I. 18 Bede, Letter to bishop Ecgberht; I. 19 Cuthbert of Jarrow: Letter on the death of Bede; and Letter to Lul; I. 20 Felix, The Life of Guthlac; I. 21 The Letters of Boniface's circle: letter from Eangyth to Boniface (14); Leoba to Boniface (29); Boniface to bishop Ecgberht of York (75); Æthelberht II of Kent to Boniface (105); Berhtgyth to her brother (147); I. 22 Æthelbald of Mercia: charter to abbess Eadburg, BACS 4 (St.Augustine's, Canterbury) no. 51; I. 23 Willibald of Mainz, The Life of Boniface; I. 24 Hugeburc of Heidenheim, The Life of Willibald of Eichstätt; I. 25 Alchfrith, Prayer to the Virgin Mary; I. 26 Alcuin, The Life of Willibrord (prose and verse); I. 27 Alcuin, On grammar; I. 28 The coming of the Vikings and the destruction of Lindisfarne (793): Alcuin, Letter 16 to the king of Northumbria; Symeon of Durham; Libellus de exordio; NINTH CENTURY; I. 29 Æthelwulf: Poem on the abbots of his monastery; I. 30 Historia Brittonum: the History of the British; I. 31 A late ninth-century charter, BACS 18 (Christ Church, Canterbury) no. 93; I. 32 Asser, On the deeds of Alfred; TENTH CENTURY; I. 33 A tenth-century charter, BACS 6 (Selsey) no. 16; I. 34 Regularis Concordia; I. 35 Literary texts associated with St. Swithun: Lantfred, The translation and miracles of St. Swithun; Wulfstan of Winchester, A metrical account of St. Swithun; A sequence on Swithun and Birinus (Anon.); I. 36 Æthelweard, Chronicle; I. 37 A treaty between Æthelred the Unready and the Viking leader; I. 38 Ælfric, Preface to the first book of Catholic Homilies; I. 39 Ælfric, Educational writings: Grammar; Glossary; Colloquy; Ælfric Bata, Colloquy; I. 40 Saints' Lives from around the millennium; I. 41 Three accounts of King Alfred and the cakes: First Life of St. Neot; Annals of St. Neot; the Chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford; I. 42 In praise of Queen Emma.
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HarperCollins The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple Dorothy
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Apollon, Artemis, Asteria Und Die Apokalypse Des
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