Andreia

Author : Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047400738

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Andreia by Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter Pdf

This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.

Author : Gun Brooke
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602823839

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Rebel’s Quest by Gun Brooke Pdf

On a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear. Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent. When the Onotharian forces strike an overwhelming blow to the resistance, Roshan sends a plea for help to Kellen O’Dal, Protector of the Realm. In the meantime, Roshan is forced to work closely with Andreia M’Aldovar, a woman she once cared for who now holds a pivotal position in the Onotharian interim government. Andreia also guards a secret, one that if known could cost her life at the hands of either the Onotharians or the resistance. As the two women struggle to prevent annihilation, Roshan is given the only order she may not be able to obey, not even to save Gantharat—assassinate Andreia M’Aldovar.

Author : Meriel Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199570089

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Playing the Man by Meriel Jones Pdf

Examining and contextualising key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others, and that they are conscious of 'playing the man'.

Author : Konstantinos Stefou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030041885

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Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry by Konstantinos Stefou Pdf

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato’s Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence. It rekindles interest in this much-neglected dialogue by providing a fresh discussion of the major issues that arise from the text. Among these issues, pride of place is taken by the virtue of courage, for the definition of which Socrates is depicted as engaging in some long-winded dialectical exchange with his interlocutors. Yet, although there is no room for doubt that the Laches is Plato’s most explicit treatment of courage, this dialogue ends in perplexity and is thus traditionally thought of as an unsuccessful attempt to define what courage is. The present study challenges this suggestion. This book proposes a new paradigm for the interpretation of Plato’s Laches. In fact, it constitutes the first systematic attempt to study the dialogue in light of the idea that its composition could well have formed part of Plato’s overall plan to establish a well-defined and rigorous justification of the life of philosophical inquiry The book will be of key interest to classicists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, but will also appeal to students or anyone interested in ancient Greek philosophy.

Author : Gabriel Danzig,David M. Johnson,David Konstan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111314006

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Xenophon’s Virtues by Gabriel Danzig,David M. Johnson,David Konstan Pdf

While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars of Xenophon tended to focus either on the historiographical writings or on the philosophical writings (chiefly Memorabilia, with some attention to the other Socratic writings and Hiero). Cyropaedia was treated as a separate entity, and Xenophon’s short and more technical treatises were generally studied only by those with particular interest in their specialized topics (such as horsemanship, hunting, and Athenian finances). But recent work by Vincent Azoulay and by Vivienne Gray have shown the essential unity of his writings. This volume continues this pan-Xenophontic trend by studying the virtues across Xenophon’s oeuvre and connecting them with a wide range of Greek literature, from Homer and the tragedians to Herodotus and Thucydides, the orators, Plato, and Aristotle.

Author : Lunette Warren
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643150406

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Like a Captive Bird by Lunette Warren Pdf

The full extent of Plutarch’s moral educational program remains largely understudied, at least in those aspects pertaining to women and the gendered other. As a result, scholarship on his views on women have differed significantly in their conclusions, with some scholars suggesting that he is overwhelmingly positive towards women and marriage and perhaps even a “precursor to feminism,” and others arguing that he was rather negative on the issue. Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in Plutarch is an examination of these educational methods employed in Plutarch’s work to regulate the expression of gender identity in women and men. In six chapters, author Lunette Warren analyzes Plutarch’s ideas about women and gender in Moralia and Lives. The book examines the divergences between real and ideal, the aims and methods of moral philosophy and psychagogic practice as they relate to identity formation, and Plutarch’s theoretical philosophy and metaphysics. Warren argues that gender is a flexible mode of being that expresses a relation between body and soul, and that gender and virtue are inextricably entwined. Plutarch’s expression of gender is also an expression of a moral condition that signifies relationships of power, Warren claims, especially power relationships between the husband and wife. Uncovered in these texts is evidence of a redistribution of power, which allows some women to dominate other women and, in rare cases, men too. Like a Captive Bird offers a unique and fresh interpretation of Plutarch’s metaphysics which centers gender as one of the organizational principles of nature. It is aimed at scholars of Plutarch, ancient philosophy, and ancient gender studies, especially those who are interested in feminist studies of antiquity.

Author : Rosalina Pisco Costa,Sampson Lee Blair
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781838670689

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Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood by Rosalina Pisco Costa,Sampson Lee Blair Pdf

Around the globe, the very conceptualization of family is associated with the relationship between a parent and a child. The birth of a child represents both the end of one experience, and the beginning of another.

Author : Sonja Madeleine Tanner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438467382

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Plato's Laughter by Sonja Madeleine Tanner Pdf

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure. Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato’s dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles, philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialogues—both explicit and implied—suggests a view of human nature as incongruous with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding, our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates’ own, laughable depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides, Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing Plato’s laughter. Sonja Madeleine Tanner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and the author of In Praise of Plato’s Poetic Imagination.

Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589335

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Sparta by Stephen Hodkinson Pdf

Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a variety of comparative approaches. The focus includes kingship and hegemonic structures, education and commensality, religious institutions and practice, helotage and ethnography. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging debate between Hodkinson and Mogens Herman Hansen (Director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre), on the overall question of whether Sparta was a normal or an exceptional polis.

Author : Nicholas Nicastro
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101099988

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The Isle of Stone by Nicholas Nicastro Pdf

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119072386

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A Companion to Sparta by Anton Powell Pdf

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Author : Kenneth Royce Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135474515

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Sex and the Second-Best City by Kenneth Royce Moore Pdf

Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.

Author : Colin Clements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063515095

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Plays for Pagans by Colin Clements Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Authorship
ISBN : CUB:U183019277321

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The Writer's Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. R. R. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aphrodisias (Extinct city)
ISBN : UOM:39015034304744

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The Monument of C. Julius Zoilos by R. R. R. Smith Pdf