'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.'Three sharp and powerful sh
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries this is the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Gre
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’sVocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries this is the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Gree
The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives, providing in two hundred articles a symp
"The 21st Century Junior Library Women Innovators series highlights the contributions of women to STEM fields. Yvonne Brill and Satellite Propulsion examines the life of this important woman and her c
Though scholarly, the entries of this reference are remarkable for the freshness of their writing, making this an engaging resource for students and the general reader, who are sure to find themselves
Scholars are finally fully appreciating the philosophical significance of early German Romanticism. Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy is a collection of original essays showcasing not on
"The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the 'pagan' Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Od
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present.
Editors Baumbach (classics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) and Bar (classics, U. of Zurich, Switzerland) organized a conference in Zurich in 2009, out of which grew this volume. They offer a short i
In Brill'Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner compile original case studies that examine how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addres
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity demonstrates the variety of ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as author, as philosopher, and as leading intellectual light, fro
To date, no comprehensive account has been published to explain the complex phenomenon of the reception of Aristotle's philosophy in Antiquity. This Companion fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD.
In Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition, Kyriakos Demtriou leads a team of prominent scholars to unravel and critically explore the intellectual fabric of George Grote's work,
Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create conse
Brill's Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean World provides readers with current research on these forms of conflict and response in the Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece
Classicists, historians, and scholars of literature analyze responses to the work of Greek historian Herodotus (484-425 BCE) mostly in ancient times, but also later. In sections on father of history;
Brill’s Compantion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines the ways in which Ancient Greek and Roman culture were appropriated by a global set of authors f
An influential New York salon host and perpetual seeker of meaning, Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis in 1916 with A.A. Brill, the first American psychoanalyst, continuing until she moved to New Mexi