In Mist Apparelled
Title | In Mist Apparelled PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick E. Brenk |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004327657 |
In Mist Apparelled
Title | In Mist Apparelled PDF eBook |
Author | Alan S. Henry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | 9789004048584 |
Facing the Gods
Title | Facing the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Verity Jane Platt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2011-07-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0521861713 |
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.
Inventing Superstition
Title | Inventing Superstition PDF eBook |
Author | Dale B. Martin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0674040694 |
The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as “contagious superstition”; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent “superstitions.” The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers suggest entirely different things by “superstition.” Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs, especially the belief that gods or other superhuman beings would harm people or cause disease. Tracing the social, political, and cultural influences that informed classical thinking about piety and superstition, nature and the divine, Inventing Superstition exposes the manipulation of the label of superstition in arguments between Greek and Roman intellectuals on the one hand and Christians on the other, and the purposeful alteration of the idea by Neoplatonic philosophers and Christian apologists in late antiquity. Inventing Superstition weaves a powerfully coherent argument that will transform our understanding of religion in Greek and Roman culture and the wider ancient Mediterranean world.
Two Studies in Attic Particle Usage
Title | Two Studies in Attic Particle Usage PDF eBook |
Author | C.M.J. Sicking |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004329250 |
In the first part C.M.J. Sicking - by using two speeches by Lysias - discusses the articulation of the text by devices marking the beginning of sentences. A separate index offers some considerations bearing on the value and use of (1) five so-called 'interactive' particles and (2) some particles found in interrogative sentences. In the second part J.M. van Ophuijsen deals with ουν, ྄ρα, δῄ and τοίνυν, all of them traditionally regarded as 'inferential' particles. The discussion focuses on, but is not restricted to, Plato's Phaedo. There is an 'excursus' on ྄ρα in Herodotus. Both authors have adopted a deliberately eclectic approach, taking advantage of what modern linguistic research has to offer without at the same time neglecting what many generations of scholars from Hoogeveen to Denniston have contributed to our understanding of ancient Greek.
Matthew's Judaization of Mark
Title | Matthew's Judaization of Mark PDF eBook |
Author | Anne M. O'Leary |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2006-11-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567031047 |
An exploration of how Matthew Judaizes Mark by basing Mark's account of Jesus on Jewish numerals and embedding Old Testament in his reworking of Mark. >
Ushering in a New Republic
Title | Ushering in a New Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor S. Luke |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472120387 |
The ancient Romans are well known for their love of the pageantry of power. No single ceremony better attests to this characteristic than the triumph, which celebrated the victory of a Roman commander through a grand ceremonial entrance into the city that ended in rites performed to Rome’s chief tutelary deity, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, on the Capitoline hill. The triumph, however, was only one form of ceremonial arrival at the city, and Jupiter was not the only god to whom vows were made and subsequently fulfilled at the end of a successful assignment. Ushering in a New Republic expands our view beyond a narrow focus on the triumph to look at the creative ways in which the great figures of Rome in the first century BCE (men such as Sulla, Caesar, Augustus, and others) crafted theological performances and narratives both in and around their departures from Rome and then returned to cast themselves in the role of divinely supported saviors of a faltering Republic. Trevor S. Luke tackles some of the major issues of the history of the Late Republic and the transition to the empire in a novel way. Taking the perspective that Roman elites, even at this late date, took their own religion seriously as a way to communicate meaning to their fellow Romans, the volume reinterprets some of the most famous events of that period in order to highlight what Sulla, Caesar, and figures of similar stature did to make a religious argument or defense for their actions. This exploration will be of interest to scholars of religion, political science, sociology, classics, and ancient history and to the general history enthusiast. While many people are aware of the important battles and major thinkers of this period of Roman history, the story of its theological discourse and competition is unfolded here for the first time.