Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

Dass sich Ovid auch und gerade in der Darstellung der weiblichen Psyche als besonders einfühlsamer Menschenkenner erweist, ist schon des öfteren beobachtet worden. Dieses Einfühlungsvermögen läßt sich in der zugespitzten Situation des Rollenkonfliktes in besonderer Weise deutlich machen. Anhand von fünf Frauengestalten, die der Dichter bewußt in das Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und persönlichen Sehnsüchten, von epischer Pflicht und elegischer Liebe hineinstellt, weist die vorliegende Monographie nach, wie Ovid sich die weibliche Perspektive zunutze macht, um überkommene Strukturen zu hinterfragen und das individuell Menschliche aufzudecken, das sich hinter den Fassaden und im Dschungel der Tabus und Konventionen seine je eigenen Wege bahnt.

This study contests the widespread view that Seneca's tragedies and Lucan's epic on the civil war express their authors' disappointment at the failure of Stoic doctrine to provide convincing answers to the problems of evil in human behaviour or the inescapable blows of Fate. The works of both writers, parallel in treatment, aim at the representation in literature of the tensions between human free-will and determinism.

Are the Roman values focused upon above all by Latinists in the first half of the 20th century, still relevant to the classical studies of today, or can they, in view of new research approaches and interdisciplinary discourse, still be of interest? This volume, the result of an "Institutionalism and Historicity" special research area seminar at Dresden Technical University, discusses this question in a productive manner. Eleven contributions, written by classical philologists, ancient historians and classical archaeologists, offer a range of critical surveys as well as on-going conceptual ideas and concrete individual studies.

Different receptions permeated Roman culture in all phases of its formation and development. This included, firstly, Greek-Hellenistic culture as the great initial template and broadened into self-determination through self-reception in the imperial period. This volume delves into these receptions from the perspective of ancient history, archaeology, and philological literary studies, and includes their impact in the twenty-first century.