Zoekresultaten voor: *
Resultaat 21 - 26 (van 26)
Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
Non-fictie
Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
story, text and moralism
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Van spiegels en vensters
de literaire canon in Nederland
Aan de orde komen de debatten over de literaire canon die in Nederland sinds de negentiende eeuw gevoerd zijn. Vooral de bespreking van literaire werken die te maken hebben met het debat over de canon. Publicatie belicht ook de positie van de literaire canon aan de hand van theoretische stukken uit het binnen- en buitenland. Recensie verschenen in: de Volkskrant, 27-2-2009
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 197 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Symon Andriessoon Duytsche adagia ofte spreecwoorden
Antwerp, Heynrick Alssens, 1550; in facsimile, transcription of the Dutch text and English translation
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 334 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2003
Gedrukt boek
J.P. Gumbert Illustrated inventory of medieval manuscripts in Latin script in the Netherlands
Non-fictie
Engels | 233 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2011
Gedrukt boek
History of neurology in the Netherlands
Non-fictie
Engels | 408 pagina's | Boom, Amsterdam | 2002
Gedrukt boek