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Author: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780674996212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.
Author: Oliver Hellmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-02
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1351499955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the ""Peripatos"" or ""Lyceum,"" and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes and details of famous Athenians; to botanical and zoological issues; and even entertaining, ""novelistic"" stories and strange reports (Mirabilia).This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as ""Phanias""and ""Phainias""), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in greater detail.The chapters of Phaenias of Eresus cover a remarkable range of intellectual areas, which is in keeping with the varied interests of the early Peripatetics in general. Phaenias is thus an ideal model for exploring issues of specialization and differentiation in research in the early Peripatos."
Author: Charles H. Cosgrove
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-01
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 100920484X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a captivating story of music-making at social recreations from Homeric times to the age of Augustine. It tells about the music itself and its purposes, as well as the ways in which people talked about it, telling anecdotes, picturing musical scenes, sometimes debating what kind of music was right at a party or a festival. In straightforward and engaging prose, the author covers a remarkably broad history, providing the big picture yet with vivid and nuanced descriptions of concrete practices and events. We hear of music at aristocratic parties, club music, people's music-making at festivals, political uses of music at the court of Alexander the Great and in the public banquets of Roman emperors in the Colosseum, opinions of music-making at social meals from Plato to Clement of Alexandria, and much more, making the book a treasure-trove of information and a fascinating journey through ancient times and places.
Author: Barry Charles Newman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-01-07
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1498237452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo be baptized, particularly as an adult, indicating a radical change from the self-directed life to the life to be lived under the lordship of Jesus Christ, must be one of the most dramatic experiences available to us. To take part in the Lord's Supper--remembering his death for us--must be one of the most moving services in which we could ever participate. But are these ceremonies obligatory for the believer? Did Jesus explicitly or implicitly make them mandatory? Does it not seem somewhat strange that the gospel, by which we are freed from the Law of Moses, demands that we abide by two new ceremonial laws? However greatly they differed from one another, did the reformers go far enough in examining the Scriptures to see what they did indeed say about such ceremonies? Have we written back into our understanding of Scripture that so much underlies our present beliefs and practices? Does an examination of what the early fathers thought help or hinder us in our search for the truth?
Author: Anna Lamari
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2023-06-12
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3949189769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus. By reconstructing the text and providing metrical, linguistic, and detailed philological analysis, it makes the work of these neglected authors accessible to all those interested in Greek drama and classical literature at large.
Author: Fiona Hobden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107026660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides insights into the symposion's importance in Greek culture by tracing the discursive power of its representations.
Author: Mario C. D. Paganini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0192845802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.
Author: Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-02-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1784910651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. It stresses the sophistication of the concept of identity, and the complex yet close association between architecture and identity.
Author: Anthi Chrysanthou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 3110678535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly due to its fragmentary nature and the lack of a reconstruction. This book brings all of the major components of Orphism together in one study, in this way highlighting both parallels and divergences between them, and a wide range of non-Orphic sources referring to Orphic practices, beliefs and texts. For the complete analysis of the Orphic Rhapsodies a reconstruction of the text was necessary, which is included in this book along with a commentary and translation. This work proposes a new definition of Orphism and it can constitute a whole-encompassing and concise guide for scholars and students interested in Orphism. The reconstruction of the Orphic Rhapsodies could also contribute on shifting the understanding of this work to new perspectives as it demonstrates that the Orphic Rhapsodies was a more complex text rather than a single continuous theogonic narrative as has been approached up to this date.
Author: Barbara Kowalzig
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0199574685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editors look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, history and politics.
