Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades - Prijzen

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

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 import...

Plutarchea Hypomnemata - Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics

A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch’s ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his ethical thoughtPlutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential...

Who Murdered Chaucer?

In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the mo...

The Poetry of Allusion

Searching for Sappho – The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the stor...

The Story of Barzu

In the area of Boysun, present-day Uzbekistan, there is a living and vivid oral tradition based on stories from the epic Shah-nama. Barzu, son of Suhrab, is tragically killed at the hands of his famou...

The United States of Belgium

New and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identityIn 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces...

Lieven Gevaert Series 13 - Minor photography

The first book to apply the concept of the 'minor' to the theory of photography The notion of the minor, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Kafka, Towards a minor literature (1975), is...

Colonial Legacies

The colonial past in photography and video art of contemporary artists born or based in the CongoIn Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in t...

Transforming Anthony Trollope

200 years of Anthony Trollope This volume is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by so...