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Thema: Antike bis Frühmittelalter



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Anne Carson: If Not, Winter

Anne Carson: If Not, Winter

Fragments of Sappho. UK 2003, 397 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Virago
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.

Gore Vidal: Julian

Gore Vidal: Julian

USA 2003, 528 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, »Julian« is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. - Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of ... Weiterlesen

Thomas K. Hubbard (ed.): Homosexuality in Greece and Rome

Thomas K. Hubbard (ed.): Homosexuality in Greece and Rome

A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. USA 2003, 558 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the 1st time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late 7th century B.C.E. to Greco-Roman texts of the 3rd and 4th centuries C.E. - the volume includes well-known ... Weiterlesen

Eva Cantarella: Bisexuality in the Ancient World

Eva Cantarella: Bisexuality in the Ancient World

USA 2002, 286 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Yale University Press
In this thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. Cantarella presents the ancient evidence, draws comparisons between heterosexuality and homosexuality, and elucidates the larger cultural ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven

Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven

USA 2002, 375 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was molded into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Funeral Games

Mary Renault: Funeral Games

USA 2002, 335 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilization. Mary Renault imagines the world of this charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Persian Boy

Mary Renault: The Persian Boy

USA 2002, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Unfortunately this historical novel trilogy about the life of Alexander the Great isn't availbale right now in German. It can be compared to Peyrefitte's trilogy not only by length but also by quality although Mary Renault applied a much more modern style to her account of the Macedonian king. She emphasized psychological insights into the main characters. Like Peyrefitte, Mary ... Weiterlesen

John J. Winkler: Der gefesselte Eros. Sexualität und Geschlechterverhältnis im antiken Griechenland

John J. Winkler: Der gefesselte Eros. Sexualität und Geschlechterverhältnis im antiken Griechenland

Dt. v. Sebastian Wohlfeil, D 2002, 423 S., geb., € 0.00
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Ein Standardwerk der Forschung über Sexualität in der Antike als preisgünstige Sonderausgabe. Der amerikanische Kulturanthropologe John J. Winkler, der 1990 im Alter von 46 Jahren an Aids starb, gehörte zu einer modernen Generation von WissenschaftlerInnen, die beeinflusst von Michel Foucault und Denkansätzen der feministischen Geschlechtertheorie einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte der Sexualität in der Antike warfen. Er interpretierte bekannte ... Weiterlesen
Der Titel ist derzeit vergriffen - auf Anfrage versuchen wir gern ein antiquarisches Exemplar zu besorgen.

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

USA 2002, 196pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book collects and translates most of the extant Graeco-Roman writing on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were both female and male. The author provides a commentary that situates the rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections- from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources - describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

USA 2001, 389 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
In the 5th century B.C., Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, reaches mnahood during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though ... Weiterlesen

Michael Pfrommer: Alexander der Große

Michael Pfrommer: Alexander der Große

D 2001, 122 S., geb., € 35.77
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Ich möchte auch diese etwas ältere, etwas andere Biografie erwähnen, in der sich der Autor auf die kulturellen Spuren des Makedonenkönigs begibt. Anhand zahlreicher Fotos und Abbildungen (von archäologischen Funden wie Plastiken, Münzen und architektonischen Resten) soll ein Eindruck von der kulturgeschichtlichen Wirkung Alexanders des Großen gewonnen werden. Es geht dem Autor darum, die Wirkung des Herrschers über das Militärisch-Politische ... Weiterlesen

Daryl Hines (ed.): Puerilities - Erotic Epigrams of »The Greek Anthology«

Daryl Hines (ed.): Puerilities - Erotic Epigrams of »The Greek Anthology«

USA 2001, 127 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms "Puerilities", comprise most of the 12th book of "The Greek Anthology". That book, the so-called "Musa Puerilis", is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English, it is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

USA 1988, 256 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Vintage
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

USA 1988, 373 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Vintage
Set in 4th-century B.C. Greece, »The Mask of Apollo« is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in »The King Must Die«. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

USA 1994, 412 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Vintage
Boswell has taken great care to assemble, transcribe, translate and interpret a persuasive array of texts describing same-sex relationships in the ancient world. It is a testimony to the fairness of the book that he confronts the opposing arguments clearly. At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated ... Weiterlesen
Titel vergriffen, auf Anfrage versuchen wir gerne, ihn antiquarisch zu besorgen.

Tinto Brass (R): Caligula - Uncut Edition

Tinto Brass (R): Caligula - Uncut Edition

UK 1979, engl. OF, 156 Min., € 19.99
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The full, unexpurgated version of Tinto Brass's infamous soft-porn Roman epic. Malcolm McDowell stars as the deranged Emperor whose depraved acts include giving his horse political office, sleeping with his own sister and executing anyone who remotely displeases him. Gore Vidal provides the (uncredited) screenplay. The film, which is punctuated by a sequence of elaborate orgy scenes, remained in limbo ... Weiterlesen

John Addington Symonds: Die Homosexualität in Griechenland

John Addington Symonds: Die Homosexualität in Griechenland

D 1992, 129 S., Pb, € 12.90
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Männerschwarm - Bibliothek rosa Winkel 5
J. A. Symonds (1840-1893), Autor einer monumentalen Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien und Biograph Benvenuto Cellinis und Michelangelos, legte mit seiner Studie »A Problem in Greek Ethics« von 1883 (deutsche Ausgabe 1896) die erste umfassende Deutung der griechischen Päderastie vor.

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