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An introduction to a range of different approaches to the study of law.

Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact and brilliantly dramatises the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. This full literary and linguistic commentary on the play is suitable for both advanced students and scholars.

Do you need clarity on the current conditions and future direction of your ministry? We realize unhealthy norms hurt outcomes. What adjustments do you need to make for healthy outcomes? Here is a vital resource for you to take a deeper look at family ministry through the lens of fifteen ministry experts. The writers offer practical ways to measure and adjust every aspect of ministry. It is vital to the future of your ministry to recalibrate to...

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil.

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Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights in this field.

Contributions to philosophy, rights and natural law inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has been centrally interested in the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how in early-modern Europe natural law was less a unified doctrine than a fie...

Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.

Through six inter-related studies of major authors and types of criticism, this book builds up a new picture of how similar themes were constantly put to new uses in reflection upon the effects of literature and its functioning in society. These themes are still very much part of modern criticism.

Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. This book explores central themes in the reception of the Homeric poems in antiquity, and pays particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. It will appeal to all those seriously interested in Greek and Roman literature and culture.

Hesiod was the greatest archaic poet after Homer: this book explores his influence on Greek literature and culture.

In jeder Partie geht es um das Abzählen von Freiheiten in Wettläufen, sei es bei einer großen Entscheidungsschlacht oder bei solch "kleinen" Fragen, ob etwa ein Schnitt möglich oder ein Deckungszug notwendig sei. Wie oft waren Sie schon überrascht, weil Ihnen am Ende eine Freiheit gefehlt hat? Haben Sie sich verzählt oder in dem Kampf einen Fehler gemacht? Jeder Go-Spieler kennt diese Erfahrung. Einen Wettlauf zu verlieren, kann entmutigen - ...

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This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory, aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a va...

This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter's work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity ('the ancient novel'), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and...

Hesiod was the greatest archaic poet after Homer: this book explores his influence on Greek literature and culture.

Plato is one of the central figures of the Greek literary heritage. This book explores that heritage in antiquity.

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This second edition of a unique text/reference identifies the appearance attributes of objects and the methods available for measuring them, bringing together much material not previously organized for ready reference. The primary premise here is that object appearance'' involves not only color, but such attributes as gloss, luster, and translucency. The first part of the book, concerned with nature of appearance, draws from the fields of phys...