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A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
,Antiklassizismen' reagieren auf unterschiedliche Formen von ,Klassizismen.' Der Band untersucht die Geschichte und die mo?glichen Implikationen dieses Terminus fu?r die Renaissanceforschung und analysiert zugleich solche ,Antiklassizismen.' Er unterscheidet ihre unterschiedlich gearteten Gegenstellungen zu ,Klassizismen' hinsichtlich ihrer Reichweite (auf einer Skala zwischen radikaler poetolo…
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- 9783110783438
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Understanding Turbulent Systems = Progress in Particle Dynamics Modeling
This open access book provides a thorough introduction to modeling turbulent, dispersed, two-phase flows. It explains the physical phenomena and governing laws at play, followed by a clear and systematic overview of the statistical tools used to develop simplified or coarse-grained models. With a pedagogical approach, the book uses practical examples to explain complex physical processes and…
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- 9783031844669
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- XIX, 284 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local hist…
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- 9789004461277
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- 540 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 196
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Women and War in Roman Epic
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…
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- 9789004443457
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Language of Classical Literature, Volume: 33
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Left-Dislocation in Latin : Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used i…
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- 978-90-04-35746-4
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- x, 253 pp.
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- Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, Volume: 28
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Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400 : Literaturhistorische Studie und Repertorium
The Middle Ages produced a very considerable corpus of latin dialogues but until now a study of this group of texts was missing. In this monograph, the complete dialogue production of the years 1200-1400 (119 works, many of them still unedited) is explored and presented in a detailed repertory which gives title(s), incipit and explicit as well as information on author, date, textual transmissio…
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- 978-90-47-42063-7
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- xxx, 826 pp.
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- Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, Volume: 37
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Students’ Collaborative Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms
At this time, the socio-economic background of globalization and information technology is presently increasing. Collaboration among team members is crucial to the success of groups, families, corporations, public institutions, organizations, and government agencies (OECD, 2017)
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- 9789819973866
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- XII, 297
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Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies r…
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- 978-90-04-50043-3
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- Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Volume: 2
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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire = Proceedings of the Fifteenth Worksh…
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definitio…
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- 9789004537460
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 50
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature = Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume 2
This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device b…
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- '9789047422938
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- 556 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 291
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