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"This is an anthology of private funerary poems in Greek from the archaic period until later antiquity. The vast majority of these poems were inscribed on tombs or grave stelai and served to identify, celebrate and mourn the dead. It is not in fact very difficult to distinguish such 'funerary' poems from other types of inscription, even if there are important overlaps in style and subject between, say, some honorific and some epitaphic verse-inscriptions; what can be much more difficult, however, is to distinguish 'public' from 'private' inscriptions, and indeed to decide what, if anything, is at stake in the distinction and how that distinction changed over time. Our earliest verse epitaphs seem to be 'private', in the sense that, as far as we can tell, they were designed and erected by the family of the deceased. For the fifth century, however, our evidence is predominantly Attic, and, from the first three-quarters of the century in particular, we have very few clearly 'private' such inscriptions, as opposed to those either sponsored or displayed (or both) by public authorities; this was the age of public burials and public commemorations in polyandry or 'multiple tombs', which (quite literally) embodied the spirit of public service demanded of male citizens. 'Private' poems too, of course, reflected the ideology of the city in which they were displayed, and we must not assume that a 'public-private' distinction mapped exactly on to some ancient equivalent of a modern 'official-unofficial' one. 'Private' inscriptions, for example, might need 'public' blessing to be erected in a particularly prominent place or even to use a particular language of praise."--

Polyaenus supported the Roman emperors with a work on Strategika, on strategical tricks. He presents examples from Greek and Roman history from men and women to show the impact of persuasion and surprise, of currying favours and creating anxieties, and not least of deception an trickery to achieve one's aims. The book allows a unique insight into ancient strategical thinking and enables us to transfer its advice for managers of armies to managing businesses – and life

Die Kunst der Taktik hat schon die Antike fasziniert. Mit welcher Taktik war es Alexander dem Großen gelungen, sein riesiges Reich zu gewinnen? Was können die Römer davon lernen? Und wie trainiert man heute? Antworten auf solche Fragen bietet im 2. Jh. n. Chr. Arrianos in seiner Techne Taktike, die er durch eine Darstellung von römischen Reiterturnieren ergänzt. Besonders anschaulich macht Asklepiodotos die Kunst der Taktik, die er nicht nur in Texten, sondern auch in Diagrammen erklärt. Zusammen bieten die Werke einen einmaligen Einblick in die antike Taktik und regen dazu an, es den antiken Taktikern gleichzutun.

Das vorliegende Buch stellt die erste kritische Edition des Kommentars zu einer frühbyzantinischen Kanonessammlung, der "Synopsis canonum", dar. Der Verfasser des Kommentars war der berühmte byzantinische Rechtsgelehrte des 12. Jahrhunderts Alexios Aristenos (vor 1100 - nach 1166). Die Edition ist mit ausführlichen Prolegomena sowie mit einem Wort-, Namen- und Quellenindex versehen. Das Buch trägt zur rechtshistorischen Byzantinistik bei und wird auch für des Griechischen kundige Kirchenrechtler von Interesse sein

Il volume offre un'introduzione, traduzione e commento del primo discorso politico pronunciato da Demostene, la Contro Leptine. Analizza il discorso come documento per la ricostruzione delle istituzioni politiche, della legge e dell'economia pubblica dell'Atene di IV secolo. Fa luce sulle istituzioni della nomothesia, sull'evergetismo ateniese e l'economia degli onori, e sul funzionamento e i dibattiti di politica economica.

The work Peri hermeneias (On Interpretation) occupies an important place among Aristotle's logical writings, but in many places, it is hard to understand. The aim of this bilingual edition is to facilitate understanding for a modern reader interested in Aristotelian philosophy and the history of logic through explanatory notes on the text.