Claudia Schindler

Lucretius' De rerum natura, written around 55 BCE, ranks among the most influential texts in Roman literature. The poet's vision of a world made of atoms, his mockery of the fear of death and the gods, and fervent advocacy of the mortality of the soul over many centuries incensed his critics on one hand, and on the other earned him a devoted following. This volume provides an introduction to the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.

Der Inhalt des Buches deckt das Thema Wertpapierleihe/Wertpapierpensionsgeschäfte umfassend ab. Es vermittelt sowohl theoretische Produktkenntnisse (Produktbeschreibung, bilanzielle Abbildung, rechtliche Aspekte, Verträge, Risiken, steuerliche Behandlung, Netting und aufsichtsrechtliche Anforderungen, elektronische Handel- und Front-Office-Systeme, etc.) als auch praktische Einsatzmöglichkeiten bei Banken im Handel, Treasury sowie bei institutionellen Anlegern, wie Fonds, Versicherungen oder Hedge Fonds.

This monograph provides a review of the history of praise of rulers composed in hexameters (so-called panegyric epic) from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. Panegyric epic is a form of literature that only came to be of particular importance in Late Antiquity, although it drew upon and adapted a variety of Graeco-Roman literary traditions. Following a general description of the literary and historical-cultural preconditions for the development of Late Antique panegyric, this study presents its most important practitioners and their works, as well as detailing the development of the various traditions of Late Antique verse panegyric.