Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity
Title | Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Andrew Bjelde |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2021-07-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3030708179 |
This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity. It contains essays from leading and up and coming scholars on figures as diverse as Parmenides, Gorgias, Seneca, and Classical Chinese "wandering persuaders." The book includes contributions from specialists in the history of philosophy as well as specialists in contemporary argumentation theory, and stimulates the dialogue between scholars studying issues relating to argumentation theory in ancient philosophy and contemporary argumentation theorists. Furthermore, the book sets the direction for research into argumentation in antiquity by encouraging an engagement with a broader range of historical figures, and closer collaboration between contemporary concerns and the history of philosophy.
Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography
Title | Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2012-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226533859 |
"Originally published 1977 by Basil Blackwell Oxford in Great Britain and by Wesleyan University Press in the United States."
Essays in Ancient Philosophy
Title | Essays in Ancient Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Frede |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0816612757 |
This text contains seventeen papers written by the author over the course of the last twelve years on the topic of philosophy.
Essays Ancient and Modern
Title | Essays Ancient and Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Knox |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
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Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse-- and opens it to read Virgil's denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road.
Classics in Progress
Title | Classics in Progress PDF eBook |
Author | T. P. Wiseman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2006-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780197263235 |
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.
Interpreting Late Antiquity
Title | Interpreting Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Warren Bowersock |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674005988 |
The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on this period's culture and history.
Gestures
Title | Gestures PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey W. Bakewell |
Publisher | Oxbow Books Limited |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
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These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is representative of Boegehold's more specialised research in Greek epigraphy, history and law.