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Spridandet av Linnés vetenskapliga revolution.

Om spridandet av Linnés vetenskapliga revolution

Vad händer med den västerländske Odysseus om han placeras i brinnande öst? Den franske författaren Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt förvandlar den antika myten till en högst modern angelägenhet.

The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato’s dialogues. Our need to talk, write, and read about love has resulted in a rich tradition, ranging from theoretical and philosophical discussions of Eros to love romance and poetry, clearly marked by the classical heritage but continuously unfolding and rewriting itself. The essays in this volume aim at providing both students and scholars with a series of discussions of this long tradition of reading and writing the erotic, seen from a number of different perspectives. A certain emphasis is placed on Classical philology, and in particular Greek and Roman love poetry from Antiquity to the Byzantine period. The contributors examine texts by Plato, Catullus, Sulpicia, Meleager and Niketas Choniates among others; but the anthology also offers more general treatments within the fields of Byzantine Studies, Iranian Languages, History of Ideas and Comparative Literature. Across this range of writers and disciplines, this collection of essays offers stimulating and original perspectives on how Eros has been appropriated in a variety of ways for purposes of producing narratives of love.

Constantine Manasses' Synopsis Chronike is a twelfth-century verse chronicle, recasting Byzantine history in a specifically Comnenian, romantic and poetic vein. The chronicle has been preserved in many manuscripts, but it has also come down to us in a number of different collections of excerpts. This article wishes to draw attention to the readers/excerptors of the Synopsis Chronike, to consider the use and usefulness of the text in relation to the composition itself. Some collections of excerpts are compared and discussed, with special focus on the excerpts included in a fifteenth-century miscellaneous manuscript (Codex Upsaliensis Graecus 8).

This dissertation is a comparative grammar of the case syntax of Latin and the Sabellian languages. The Sabellian languages were a group of Indo-European languages on the Italian peninsula, attested in inscriptions approx. 650 – 50 BCE. The main question of the study concerns the ultimate relationship between Latin and the Sabellian languages, considering the large number of similarities found within these linguistic systems, in all areas of language.

According to some scholars these similarities should be ascribed to the fact that the languages in question were spoken in the same area, the geographically limited region of the Italian peninsula, for a long time. According to others, the similarities are such that we have to assume a common Proto-Italic language stage after the split from Western Proto-Indo-European.

Earlier research into this problem has traditionally focused on the more common areas within comparative and historical linguistics, that is the vocabulary, the phonology and the morphology. This thesis considers the structures of syntax, with a focus on case. The last attempts to describe the Sabellian case syntax are now over a century old and much new material has since then appeared.

The system met with in the Sabellian material is compared to the data met with in other early Indo-European languages and especially to the Latin data. The extent to which the structures found in Latin and Sabellian are specific to these two languages and to what extent they represent their common Proto-Indo-European heritage is discussed. The evidence drawn from the syntactic comparison made in this work contributes towards establishing a hypothetical common Proto-Italic language stage.