Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid king Antiochos III. The poem is an ingeniously constructed masterpiece, a generic mix with elements of tragedy, epic, and history. Priam's beautiful daughter, the prophetic Kassandra, foresees her rape in Athena's temple by the hate...

This volume takes as its subject one of the most important Greek poems of the Hellenistic period: the Alexandra attributed to Lykophron, probably written in about 190 BC. At 1474 lines and with a riddling narrative and a preponderance of unusual vocabulary it is a notoriously challenging prospect for scholars, but it also sheds crucial light on Greek religion (in particular the role of women) and on foundation myths and myths of colonial identity. Most of the poem purports to be a...

Das Buch "Die Vorsokratiker" präsentiert auf eindrucksvolle Weise die frühesten griechischen Denker, die maßgeblich zur Entwicklung der abendländischen Philosophie beitrugen und das Fundament für spätere Generationen legten. Diese Sammlung umfasst ausführliche Biografien, grundlegende Ideen und erhaltene Schriften von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten wie Heraklit, Demokrit, Anaxagoras, Empedokles, Melissos, Zenon, Xenophanes, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Diogenes von Apollonia, Protago...