Lucan’s Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume ...

Die klassische Mythologie überlebte die Christianisierung des Römischen Reiches und das Ende der Antike; das ist ein ebenso bekannter wie bei näherem Zusehen überraschender ...

The author explores the nihilistic view of the cosmos expressed by the poet and relates this perspective to the philosophical system of the Stoics

The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the ...

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings ...

Julius Africanus (3. Jh.) ist als „Vater der christlichen Chronographie“ bezeichnet worden; darunter versteht man die genaue Berechnung von Zeiten (etwa die Datierung der ...

This publication asks whether the works of early Christian and patristic authors constitute 'literature', and how historians of the early church and of late antiquity should ...

Tacitus' works still have a profound effect on the way we see the early Roman Principate. However, the level of truth in this picture must be examined critically. For on closer ...