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Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-19
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1107029791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh translations and up-to-date commentary.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-01-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9004690824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublius Nigidius Figulus, renowned senator-scholar of the late Roman Republic, wrote numerous works on a wide variety of topics, of which only 130 fragments survive. This is the first collection of academic articles on this mysterious figure, who not only was famous for his learning, but also reportedly engaged in a number of divinatory practices and went down in history as a “Pythagorean and magus” (thus St. Jerome). A group of international scholars provide a variety perspectives on Nigidius’ politics, philosophy, mythography, biology, religious studies, linguistic thought, divinatory activities, and reception, throwing new light on this fascinating Roman polymath.
Author: Suzan Sierksma-Agteres
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-07-25
Total Pages: 956
ISBN-13: 9004684530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of faith experienced a remarkable surge in popularity among early Christians, with Paul as its pioneer. Yet what was the wider cultural significance of the pistis word group? This comprehensive work contextualizes Paul’s faith language within Graeco-Roman cultural discourses, highlighting its semantic multifariousness and philosophical potential. Based on an innovative combination of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, it explores ‘faith’ within social, political, religious, ethical, and cognitive contexts. While challenging modern individualist and irrational conceptualizations, this book shows how Paul uses pistis to creatively configure philosophical narratives of his age and propose Christ as its ultimate embodiment.
Author: Joel B. Green
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 766
ISBN-13: 1441240543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the early church. Contributors include renowned scholars such as Lynn H. Cohick, David A. deSilva, James D. G. Dunn, and Ben Witherington III. The book includes seventy-five photographs, fifteen maps, numerous tables and charts, illustrations, and bibliographies. All students of the New Testament will value this reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive textbook and reference volume on the New Testament world.
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-09-08
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0192897667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes collects sixteen essays by experts that consider aspects of the first two thousand years of the history of hylomorphism, starting with Aristotle's immediate successors and ending with Descartes. It includes discussions of Hellenistic, Roman, Arabic, medieval, and early modern philosophers, examining the ways in which Aristotle's central ideas and concepts were progressively modified by these thinkers. Hylomorphism, as we understand it today, owes much to the way in which it was interpreted, and re-interpreted, during this period. Through a study of their work we can see how questions in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind, such as Descartes's mind-body problem, came to be formulated.
Author: R. W. Sharples
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-14
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ISBN-13: 1139491520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.
Author: Terence Irwin
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0192891774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning over a thousand years from Homer to Saint Augustine, Classical Thought encompasses a vast range of material in succinct style, while remaining clear and lucid even to those with no philosophical or Classical background The major philosophers and philosophical schools are examined---the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Neoplatonism; but other important thinkers, such as Greek tragedians, historians, medical writers, and early Christian writers, are also discussed. The emphasis is naturally on questions of philosophical interest (although the literary and historical background to Classical philosophy is not ignored), and again the scope is broad---ethics, the theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology. All this is presented in a fully integrated, highly readable text which covers may of the most important areas of ancient thought and in which stress is laid on the variety and continuity of philosophical thinking after Aristotle.
Author: Stephen Everson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-07-07
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521357951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is concerned to expound and analyse ancient theories of language.
Author: Timothy A. Brookins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107046378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work re-examines the divisive wisdom in 1 Corinthians and considers the effects of wealth and formal education in Stoicism on the Corinthian church.
Author: Reid Barbour
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Reid Barbour offers the first full account of the lively but hazardous transmission of these Hellenistic philosophies over the first half-century of Stuart rule, including the cataclysmic years of civil war that forever changed the role of classical culture in English intellectual life.
