Seneca the Younger

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

Vom glücklichen Leben / De vita beata. Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Lateinisch / Deutsch.

Andreas Heil

Andreas Haltenhoff

This edited volume, which has its origins in a Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) in Dresden, “Institutionality and Historicity”, deals with the relationship between Roman values and the political strategies and changing social roles of the early Principate as reflected in contemporary literary communication.

Römische Werte und römische Literatur im frühen Prinzipat

Die zunehmende Auflösung der soziopolitischen Ordnung in der ausgehenden römischen Republik erfaßte auch das System allgemein verbindlicher Werte. Wie sich die literarische Kommunikation der Zeit zu dieser Entwicklung verhielt, untersuchen die hier versammelten Beiträge. Sie sind, wie bereits der Band 'Moribus antiquis res stat Romana' zur römischen Literatur des 3. und 2. Jhs. v. Chr. (BzA 134), aus dem Dresdner Sonderforschungsbereich 'Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit' hervorgegangen. Neben den literarischen Texten werden epigraphische und archäologische Zeugnisse berücksichtigt.

Römische Werte und römische Literatur in den letzten Jahrzehnten der Republik

O tempora, o mores!

The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.

Foundational Texts Compared

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs

Achim Mittag

A collection of essays, by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, exploring the mental images and symbolical representations of `empire' that developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

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