This anthology, edited by Hon (history, State U. of New York at Geneseo) and Culp (history and Asian studies, Bard College), explores modern Chinese historiographical discourse within its political, s
The De Bry collection of voyages consisted of twenty-five folio volumes (published by the De Bry publishing family between 1590 and 1634) containing some 50 travel accounts of European expeditions to
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a
The recognition scene, anagnorisis in Greek, was part of a storyteller's standard repertory in ancient Greco-Roman narrative and drama, says Larsen (U. of Aarhus, Denmark), and he finds it conspicuous
Public law, explains Zoller (public law, U. of Paris II), is concerned with relations between the state and its citizens, and she contends that even deep in today's cult of the individual, where all m
