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Author : Libanius
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781589833609
Author : Libanius
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Greek language
ISBN : 1589834356
Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004127232
This volume provides an English translation of four Greek treatises written during the time of the Roman empire and attributed to Theon, Hermogenes, Aphthonius, and Nicolaus. Several of these works are translated here for the first time. Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Author : Lieve Van Hoof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316060698
A professor of Greek rhetoric, frequent letter writer and influential social figure, Libanius (AD 314–393) is a key author for anybody interested in Late Antiquity, ancient rhetoric, ancient epistolography and ancient biography. Nevertheless, he remains understudied because it is such a daunting task to access his large and only partially translated oeuvre. This volume, which is the first comprehensive study of Libanius, offers a critical introduction to the man, his texts, their context and reception. Clear presentations of the orations, progymnasmata, declamations and letters unlock the corpus, and a survey of all available translations is provided. At the same time, the volume explores new interpretative approaches of the texts from a variety of angles. Written by a team of established as well as upcoming experts in the field, it substantially reassesses works such as the Autobiography, the Julianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 For the Temples.
Author : Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171357
This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's training and personality, showing him to be a vibrant educator, though somewhat gloomy and anxious by nature. She traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students. Cribiore describes his school in Antioch--how students applied, how they were evaluated and trained, and how Libanius reported progress to their families. She details the professional opportunities that a thorough training in rhetoric opened up for young men of the day. Also included here are translations of 200 of Libanius's most important letters on education, almost none of which have appeared in English before. Cribiore casts into striking relief the importance of rhetoric in late antiquity and its influence not only on pagan intellectuals but also on prominent Christian figures. She gives a balanced view of Libanius and his circle against the far-flung panorama of the Greek East.
Author : W. Martin Bloomer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119023890
A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of education throughout the ancient world Covers both liberal and illiberal (non-elite) education during antiquity Addresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity
Author : Sebastiana Nervegna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107004221
Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools.
Author : Ronald F. Hock,Edward N. O'Neil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004126562
This volume features thirty-six translated texts illustrating the use of the chreia, or anecdote, in Greco-Roman classrooms to teach reading, writing, and composition. This ancient literary form preserves the wit and wisdom of famous philosophers, orators, kings, and poets. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108424745
Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.
Author : Mikeal Carl Parsons,Michael W. Martin (Professor of New Testament)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1481306413
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, eloquence was essential to public life and identity, perpetuating class status and power. The three-tiered study of rhetoric was thus designed to produce sons worthy of and equipped for public service. Rhetorical competency enabled the elite to occupy their proper place in society. The oracular and literary techniques represented in Greco-Roman education proved to be equally central to the formation of the New Testament. Detailed comparisons of the sophisticated rhetorical conventions, as cataloged in the ancient rhetorical handbooks (e.g., Quintilian), reveal to what degree and frequency the New Testament was shaped by ancient rhetoric's invention, argument, and style. But Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament breaks new ground. Instead of focusing on more advanced rhetorical lessons that elite students received in their school rooms, Michael Martin and Mikeal Parsons examine the influence of the progymnasmata--the preliminary compositional exercises that bridge the gap between grammar and rhetoric proper--and their influence on the New Testament. Martin and Parsons use Theon's (50-100 CE) compendium as a baseline to measure the way primary exercises shed light on the form and style of the New Testament's composition. Each chapter examines a specific rhetorical exercise and its unique hortatory or instructional function, and offers examples from ancient literature before exploring the use of these techniques in the New Testament. --
Author : Anna C. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329054
In this innovative study, Anna Miller challenges prevailing New Testament scholarship that has largely dismissed the democratic civic assembly--the ekklēsia--as an institution that retained real authority in the first century CE. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she examines a range of classical and early imperial sources to demonstrate that ekklēsia democracy continued to saturate the eastern Roman Empire, widely impacting debates over authority, gender, and speech. In the first letter to the Corinthians, she demonstrates that Paul's persuasive rhetoric is itself shaped and constrained by the democratic discourse he shares with his Corinthian audience. Miller argues that these first-century Corinthians understood their community as an authoritative democratic assembly in which leadership and "citizenship" cohered with the public speech and discernment open to each. This Corinthian identity illuminates struggles and debates throughout the letter, including those centered on leadership, community dynamics, and gender. Ultimately, Miller's study offers new insights into the tensions that inform Paul's letter. In turn, these insights have critical implications for the dialogue between early Judaism and Hellenism, the study of ancient politics and early Christianity, and the place of gender in ancient political discourse.
Author : Debra Hawhee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226706771
We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they’re crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on from there to examine the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and education. In doing so, she not only offers a counter-history of rhetoric but also brings rhetorical studies into dialogue with animal studies, one of the most vibrant areas of interest in humanities today. By removing humanity and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees up space to study and emphasize other crucial components of communication, like energy, bodies, and sensation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw tells a new story of the discipline’s history and development, one animated by the energy, force, liveliness, and diversity of our relationships with our “partners in feeling,” other animals.
Author : Laura S. Lieber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190065461
"In this volume, Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity (ca. 3rd-4th c. CE) is examined not only from within the context of religious traditions of biblical interpretation and conventions of prayer but also through the lenses of performance, entertainment, and spectacle. Recognizing that liturgical poets were as invested engaging their listeners as orators and actors were, this study analyses hymnody as a performative genre akin to oratory and theatre, the two primary modes of public performance from the wider societal context. Attention to liturgical poetry's "theatricality" draws our attention to a range of subjects, from how biblical stories were adapted to the liturgical stage, much in the way that the classical works of Greco-Roman antiquity were themselves popularized in this Late Antique period; to the adaptation of physical techniques and material structures to augment the ability of performers to engage their audiences. Specific techniques associated with both oratory and acting in antiquity will offer concrete means for elucidating the affinities of liturgical presentations and other modes of performance: indications of direct address, for example, and apostrophe, as well as the creation of character through speech (ethopoeia); and appeals to the audience's senses, including vivid descriptions (ekphrasis), a technique especially popular in antiquity. A serious consideration of performance also demands that we make the difficult leap to imagining the world beyond the page. While Late Antique hymnody has come down to the present primarily in textual form, the written word constitutes something quite remote from the actual experience these scripts reflect. We will thus attempt to consider more speculative but recognizably essential elements of these works' reception, including ways in which liturgical poetry could have borrowed from the gestures and body language of oratory, mime, and pantomime, and how poets may have used the physical spaces of performance and accelerated changes visible in the archaeological record"--
Author : Krastu Banev
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198727545
A literary-historical study of the letters of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria (385-412) and the success of their rhetorical persuasion in securing the condemnation of Origen and the punishment and expulsion of his monastic followers in 400 CE.
Author : Ronit Nikolsky,Tal Ilan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004277311
In this book various authors explore how rabbinic traditions that were formulated in the Land of Israel migrated to Jewish study houses in Babylonia.