Product Description: Ovid's 'Metamorphosen', eines der folgenreichsten B|cher der Weltliteratur, sind als Fundgrube des Mythos eine unerschöpfliche Inspirationsquelle f|r Dichter, Maler, Musiker und Psychologen. Zwischen Identitätssuche und -verlust wandelt sich der Mensch ständig und verwandelt seine Umwelt...read more

Product Description: Die deutsche Literatur hat sich an mehreren Traditionen gebildet: an der christlichen, an der griechisch-lateinischen und an den aus ihr hervorgegangenen europäischen Traditionen. War die Bedeutung der antiken Komponente vom 16. bis zum 18...read more

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Product Description: In this interpretative approach to the Roman epic, the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious "missing links" between the ages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.