| Polyainos. Neue Studien: Polyaenus. New Studies Contributor(s): Brodersen, Kai (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3938032391 ISBN-13: 9783938032398 Publisher: Verlag-Antike OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Language: German Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 938.09 |
| LCCN: 2010536321 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.75" W x 8.58" (0.60 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: English summary: Polyaenus is the author of a Greek collection of some 900 stratagems by men and women, dedicated to the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The seven original essays in this volume - four of them in English - the author and his work are studied and and interpreted in the context of the Second Sophistic. With contributions by Elisabetta Bianco (Torino), Kai Brodersen (Erfurt), Klaus Geus (Berlin), James Morton (Kingston ON), Maria Pretzler (Swansea), Veit Rosenberger (Erfurt), Everett L. Wheeler (Durham NC). Polyainos verfaate im 2. Jh. n.Chr. eine Sammlung von etwa 900 "Strategemen" von Mannern und Frauen in griechischer Sprache, die den romischen Kaisern Marcus Aurelius und Lucius Verus gewidmet ist. In sieben hier erstmals publizierten Studien werden der Autor und sein Werk im Kontext der Zweiten Sophistik neu erschlossen und interpretiert. Beitrage von / Contributions by Elisabetta Bianco (Torino), Kai Brodersen (Erfurt), Klaus Geus (Berlin), James Morton (Kingston ON), Maria Pretzler (Swansea), Veit Rosenberger (Erfurt), Everett L. Wheeler (Durham NC). |