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I am the only daughter of my mom but third to my father and the heiress of a fortune pass down to my mom. I have everything in life, I am the one you call a spoiled brat. But I went out of control and when my mom had the last straw me after causing a very big scandal she sent me away to Italy to live with my sister as punishment. Luckily I wasn't alone, my niece/best friend was with me. But that punishment turned to something beautiful when...

Mogens Herman Hansen is a renowned classics scholar and a leading authority on Athenian democracy and the ancient Greek city-state. This book collects, revises, and expands on Hansen's expert understandings of this fundamental text on politics. Addressing old controversies with fresh perspectives and treating issues that have been previously been ignored or neglected, Hansen sheds new light on a range of issues of paramount importance for unde...

Let them speak to me no more of Rome and let Greece be silent lest she stand accused of knowing nothing but what she has derived from Egypt." Frederik Ludvig Norden (1708-1742), a Danish naval officer, wrote these words during a 1737 expedition to describe his amazement at the technical ingenuity of ancient Egyptian and Nubian art and architecture. Posthumously published in 1755, Norden's Travels in Egypt and Nubia proved to be of great import...

Kierkegaard readers are familiar with his dogged polemic against Hegelianism, his critique of Friedrich von Schlegels Romantic irony, and his visit to Schellings lectures in Berlin. However, these are only a few well-known examples of a much deeper relation of influence and inspiration. Kierkegaard read German fluently and was interested in many different authors and thinkers from the German-speaking countries. The auction catalogue of his per...

What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the authority of Aristotle, the answers have differed widely. To Aristotle, the soul of poetry was one instance of mimesis, namely that construction of plot which he called mimesis of action, or muthos. However, in the Poetics alone, mimesis is used in several different meanings, and Aristotle does not...

This book is the first anthology of writings to be devoted to Icelandic theologian and religious writer Magnús Eiríksson (180681). A contemporary of Kierkegaard, Eiríksson made a name (and enemies) for himself by being an outspoken advocate of tolerance and freedom of thought and conscience in matters of religion. This book aims to resurrect Eiríkssons thought for a new era, with contributions covering the key topics of his writings and offeri...