Plato's Socrates as Educator
Plato's Socrates as Educator

Author: Gary Alan Scott

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-10-19

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780791447246

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Despite his ceaseless efforts to purge his fellow citizens of their unfounded opinions and to bring them to care for what he believes to be the most important things, Plato's Socrates rarely succeeds in his pedagogical project with the characters he encounters. This is in striking contrast to the historical Socrates, who spawned the careers of Plato, Xenophon, and other authors of Socratic dialogues. Through an examination of Socratic pedagogy under its most propitious conditions, focusing on a narrow class of dialogues featuring Lysis and Alcibiades, this book answers the question: "why does Plato portray his divinely appointed gadfly as such a dramatic failure?"

The Forgotten
The Forgotten

Author: Patrick C. Pagnano

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13:

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About the Book The Forgotten is a thrilling story of a boy thrust into the cruel reality of the world. This world is full of monsters and magic. It is also where the gods play with the lives of mortals for their own entertainment and satisfaction. The young boy stumbles through his life, desperate to find a way home. With each unfathomable turn of event comes another wave of chaos unyielding in its efforts to uproot what little he has left. About the Author Patrick C. Pagnano was born in Auburn, Nebraska. He currently resides in Citrus Heights, California. He worked multiple jobs throughout college while maintaining his relationships with his family and friends. He is happily married and has a career in the engineering field. He enjoys writing as a way to express his creative side and escape the stress of everyday life.

Aristophanes
Aristophanes

Author: Carlo Ferdinando Russo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-06-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1134735383

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Carlo Ferdinando Russo's book has been a seminal work on Aristophanes since its publication in Italy in 1962. In his detailed analysis, Russo considers the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage. This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Now finally available in English and much-updated, it is essential reading for any student of Athenian comedy.

The Context of Ancient Drama
The Context of Ancient Drama

Author: Eric Csapo

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780472082759

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An easy-to-use guide to the nature and stagecraft of ancient plays

Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Author: A. P. Kazhdan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-02

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780520069626

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Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Introduction to Typology
Introduction to Typology

Author: Lindsay J. Whaley

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780803959637

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Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.

Angelomorphic Pneumatology
Angelomorphic Pneumatology

Author: Bogdan Gabriel Bucur

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9004174141

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This book discusses the occurrence of angelic imagery in early Christian discourse about the Holy Spirit. Taking as its entry-point Clement of Alexandria s less explored writings, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, and Adumbrationes, it shows that Clement s angelomorphic pneumatology occurs in tandem with spirit christology, within a theological framework still characterized by a binitarian orientation. This complex theological articulation, supported by the exegesis of specific biblical passages (Zech 4: 10; Isa 11: 2-3; Matt 18:10), reworks Jewish and Christian traditions about the seven first-created angels, and constitutes a relatively widespread phenomenon in early Christianity. Evidence to support this claim is presented in the course of separate studies of Revelation, the Shepherd of Hermas, Justin Martyr, and Aphrahat.

Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)
Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)

Author: Foteini Spingou

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 1683

ISBN-13: 1108643906

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In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.