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Author : William Mullinger Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023999645
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535017
With Aristomenes of Messene, Daniel Ogden identifies yet another fertile and undervalued topic in Ancient History. He has previously studied illegitimacy in the ancient Greek world (Greek Bastardy, OUP, 1996), Greek ideas about the relationship between deformity and power (Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece, Duckworth, 1997), the nature and causes of dynastic murder in the Hellenistic world (Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death, Classical Press of Wales, 1999) and the techniques of calling up the dead in the ancient world (Greek and Roman Necromancy, Princeton UP, 2001). Among his other books is a volume edited for the Classical Press of Wales, The Hellenistic World: New perspectives (2002).The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book, the first monograph to be devoted to Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, which at times resemble those of King Arthur, Robin Hood and even Sinbad the Sailor. The book goes beyond the question of the historicity of Aristomenes, and examines the meaning and symbolism of the stories in their own right. The study will be welcomed by those with an interest in the history of Sparta, in Pausanias (our principal source for the tales), and in Greek traditional narrative. Famously, Sparta tried to suppress the identity and self-confidence of its Messenian helots. Yet here are stories which give access to the imagination of this long-muted but ultimately liberated people..
Author : Aristomenes (fict. name.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590029847
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004242135
This volume honours Sten Ebbesen with a series of essays on logical and linguistic analysis in the Middle Ages. Included are studies focusing on textual criticism, new finds of logical texts, and philosophical analysis and interpretation.
Author : Thomas J. Figueira
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535215
This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Thomas J. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; fifteen are new, the other is newly translated from the French. Among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers on Spartan women; the economy of Sparta; helots and Messenians; Xenophon and Sparta; and the modern reception of Sparta.
Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589335
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 : James Gollnick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780889203006
Discusses the centrality of dreams and the dreamworld to Apuleius' Metamorphoses, and uses the dreamworld of the work to investigate second-century beliefs about dreams, particularly those regarding religious transformation. Through this investigation, Gollnick (U. of Waterloo) offers an historical background on the contemporary psychological interest in dreams and dream interpretation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kevin L. Flannery
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813221601
Aristotle, according to the author, depicts the way in which human acts of various sorts and in various combinations determine the logical structure of moral character. Some moral characters--or character types--manage to incorporate a high degree of practical consistency; others incorporate less, without forfeiting their basic orientation toward the good. Still others approach utter inconsistency or moral deprivation, although even these, insofar as they are responsible for their actions, retain a core element of rationality in their souls. According to Aristotle, moral character depends ultimately on the structure of individual acts and on how they fit together into a whole that is consistent--or not consistent--with justice and friendship.--From publisher's description.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816658053
William of Sherwood's Treatise on Syncategorematic Words was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first translation of an important medieval work in philosophy, an advanced treatise by the thirteenth-century English logician William of Sherwood. The treatise draws on doctrines developed in Sherwood's Introduction to Logic,which has also been translated by Professor Kretzmann. William of Sherwood is an important figure in the development of the logica moderna,the distinctively medieval contribution to logic and semantics. As Professor Kretzmann explains, the logica moderna may have originally aimed only ad providing ad hoc rules regarding inferences that involve problematic locutions of ordinary discourse. But its principal aim soon became the development of a more or less general account of the ways in which words are used to stand for things or to affect the meanings of other words. In Sherwood's time the logica moderna seems to have been thought of as having two branches, an account of the "properties of terms" and an account of the signification and function of "syncategorematic words." Sherwood deals with the first branch in his Introduction to Logic and with the second branch in the treatise presented here. The translation is copiously annotated to supply the kind of explanatory material a twentieth-century reader may need for an understanding of a thirteenth-century discussion. As Professor Kretzmann points out, many of the problems dealt with in this treatise closely resemble the problems of twentieth-century philosophical logic and philosophy of language.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : HARVARD:HX81LR
Author : Eliza Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Greece
ISBN : NYPL:33433081551677
Author : Warren S. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000813005
This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic writings. The novel was written against a cultural and religious background in which the donkey had various connotations, both positive and negative, but tended to be admired in Jewish, Christian, and later, in Muslim writings. Smith explores the influence of such popular opinions on The Golden Ass and how Apuleius presented Isis and Osiris as desirable alternatives to the claims of both Christianity and magic, offering hope of spiritual renewal partly modelled on contemporary religious apocalyptic literature. Complemented by images of contemporary art, including amulets and terra cotta figures, this volume gives readers a better understanding of how Apuleius, ostensibly a Platonist and member of the Roman establishment, could maintain an intellectual independence in a North African milieu while still drawing on hope in the salvation of the gods. Religion and Apuleius’ Golden Ass provides a fascinating new approach to this much disputed novel, of interest not only to students and scholars of Apuleius and Roman literature, but also scholars interested in Christian and Jewish literature and beliefs of the early centuries of the first millennium C.E.
Author : National cyclopaedia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046791
Author : André Lardinois,van der Poel,Vincent Hunink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047409281
This collection of essays, dedicated to A.H.M. Kessels, provides an overview of modern Dutch scholarship in Greek and Latin studies with special emphasis on dreams in classical literature, classical drama and the reception of Homer.
Author : Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715842
Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
