Greek and latin from an indo-european perspective

This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. Classical and Indo-European linguistics have been particularly ...

Escuela y literatura en Grecia antigua

actas del Simposio Internacional Universidad de Salamanca, 17-19 noviembre de 2004

El tema es de un gran interés no sólo por referirse a una parcela del mundo griego, la de la enseñanza, tan importante como necesitada de revisión y estudio, sino porque a su vez ésta constituye una etapa crucial de la historia de la educación ...

Nature, culture, and the origins of greek Ccmedy

a study of animal choruses

Aristophanes' Birds, Wasps, and Frogs offer the best-known examples of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but sixth- century vase-paintings of men costumed as cocks, bulls, and horses indicated that comedies were only the last phase of a longer tradition ...

Oxford readings in the attic orators

The 'Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial. The essays in this volume explore that formative linkage, representing the main directions of recent work on the ...

Xenophon on gevernment

Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under ...

Ancient Greek scholarship

a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnigs to the Byzantine Period

"Ancient Greek Scholarship" is the only introduction to this important and fast-growing field, with information on all aspects of using and reading ancient scholarship. It includes discussions of all major works, explanation of grammarians' Greek, over 200 passages with commentary, glossary of 1500 grammatical terms ...

A guide to hellenistic literature

This book is a guide to the Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. It demonstrates how, during this period, Greek culture spread to Egypt and the Near ...

Une leçon de vie

les réflexions générales dans le théâtre de Sophocle

La littérature grecque ancienne répond plus directement que la plupart des livres contemporains aux questions existentielles que peut se poser l#homme d#aujourd#hui : comment donner un sens à sa vie ? Comment se comporter dans l#adversité ? Pourquoi le malheur et l#injustice ? Le ...

Rediscovering Homer

inside the origins of the epic

Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the "Odyssey and the Iliad", and asks new questions about the poet Homer. Dalby follows the growth of the legend of Troy from its kernel of historical truth and retraces the succession of singers who ...

Teofanía

el espíritu de la antigua religión griega

En este breve y contundente texto #publicado en 1956 en la Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyclopädie#, el destacado filólogo alemán Walter F. Otto, autor de Los dioses de Grecia (1929), hace un rescate de la religión griega, vista no como consecuencia de una «ilusión primitiva» o de ...

El saber del error

filosofía y tragedia en Sófocles

En buena medida, la tradición filosófica occidental ha consistido en una reflexión sobre temas trágicos y, muchas veces, sobre la naturaleza misma de lo trágico. De ahí que quizás no quepa ya recuperar una mirada ingenua sobre la tragedia, una mirada ajena a toda filosofía ...

Cultura neogriega

tradición y modernidad: Actas del III Congreso de Neohelenistas de Iberoamérica (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2 de junio-5 de junio de 2005)

Latin forms of address

from Plautus to Apuleius

How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little cheese', what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a ...

In platonis parmenidem commentari

tomus I: Libros I-III continens

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important document from ancient philosophy on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' interpretation, the Parmenides provides the argumentative and conceptual ...

The medieval world of Isidore of Seville

truth from words

In his Etymologiae, St Isidore of Seville put together a systematic survey of the world in the form of a vast thesaurus of Latin vocabulary, which supplies a more or less accepted or fanciful etymology for each term. It became one of the most influential ...

A companion to latin literature

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. The volume provides the reader with a comprehensive reference for Latin literature. It includes a narrative ...

Lingvae Hispanicae Compendium

(Copenhague, 1662)

La Historiografía lingüística está despertando, en los últimos tiempos, el interés de quienes se dedican a los estudios gramaticales, porque permite conocer el camino que ha seguido la tradición en la formación de las distintas teorías lingüísticas. El Lingvae Hispanicae Compendium es un jalón importante ...

Res Gestae Divi Augusti = Hauts faits du divin Auguste

SOMMAIRE: Introduction. Texte latin/traduction grecque. Illustrations.

Bibliografía de San Agustín en lengua española (1502-2006)

"La tarea del bibliógrafo, nunca lo bastante valorada, consiste ante todo en buscar, seleccionar, ordenar y clasificar y, como si de pan bien horneado hablásemos, servir la copiosa cosecha de sus indagaciones al gran público, en esta ocasión el hispanohablante.

What's in a name?

the significance of proper name in classical latin literature

Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which ...