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Mythologie
Italische und nordafrikanische Lampen des 1. bis 5. Jahrhunderts
Römische Lampen der Sammlung K. Wilhelm
In addition to some Italian picture lamps of the 1st century A.D., the main focus of K. Wilhelm's lamp collection is on 41 lamps of the middle and late imperial period produced in...
Flesheaters
An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi. University of California at Berkeley 18–19 September 2009
Roman metropolitan sarcophagi are often adorned with reliefs representing the lives of the heroes and heroines of Greek myth. Why were particular Greek myths so popular? How easy...
Relief- und stempelverzierte nordafrikanische Sigillata des späten 2. bis 6. Jahrhunderts
Römisches Tafelgeschirr der Sammlung K. Wilhelm
This study focuses on the wide range of vessel forms and decoration of the rare appliqué-decorated red slip ware from northern Tunisia, and especially the appliqué-, relief- and...
Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnißte Lekanides
Subject of the book is the cultural-historical significance of the lekanis produced in Athens in the 5th and 4th century BC, reaching its zenith in the first half of the 4th...
Die Messingstadt
Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung
Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for...
Himerios. Reden und Fragmente
Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar
The orations of the rhetor Himerius, a professor in Athens in the late classical era, are here trans-lated for the first time into a modern language. They illustrate vividly the...
Lexikon georgische Mythologie
This volume aims to give an introduction to Georgian mythology, which is an important element of the cultural treasure of this people. It offers an overview of baisc concepts,...
Im Spiegel des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt
Lo specchio del mito. Immaginario e realtà. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums, Rom vom 19. bis 20. Februar 1998
Representations of Greek myths are a fundamental constant in cultures of the classical ancient world. From the early period of the Greek polis up until the late Caesar period, in...
Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar
Griechische Mythen in etruskischen Gräbern
Numerous Etruscan monuments of the 4th to the 1st century BC contain depictions of human sacrifices and of various acts of violance committed in sacred places. There is a broad...