Description
Book SynopsisA collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birger Munk Olsen's 60th birthday.
Table of ContentsA poem by Theognis; a note on Pindar "Olympian" i, 26 and the critics; cardinal virtues - the language of public approbation in democratic Athens; the regular payment of Aegean mercenaries in the Classical period; the physicality of god in the "Politicus" myth and in the later dialogues; the "Ambrose" text of Alexander and the Brahmans; "Qui Mare Teneat" (Cic. Att. 10.8) - Caesar Pompey and the waves; "pre-history" in the 9th-century manuscript "Ad Herennium"; Gregory Nazianzen's "Homily 36" - a Socratic response to Christian persecution; the rediscovery of Arnulf of Orleans's glosses to Ovid's creation myth; corectio theatrali bei Johannes von Garlandia.
