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Author: Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1108841031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinks the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the goddess Hera in her complex relationship to Zeus.
Author: CO Brink
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0227900014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor C.O. Brink's English Classical Scholarship is the first sustained treatment since the early years of this century of the historical development of English classical scholarship. Brink shows the effect of the Italian Renaissance on nascent English scholarship and examines the contribution made by 17th century scholars such as Bishop Pearson and Thomas Gataker. He deals at length with the life of Richard Bentley, his troubled careers master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and above all the immenseadvances he made in classical studies, which were in turn developed by Richard Porson. He also shows how, paradoxically, in the Victorian era, while a classical education was seen as the key to advancement, classical scholarship almost wholly stagnated. Although the tradition of Bentley and Porson all but disappeared in England, it was nurtured by the great German scholars of the nineteenth century. It was only with the work of A. E. Housman that the tradition of the greatest classical scholars returned to its native land and Professor Brink shows how it began again to make a contribution to the 'European fund'.
Author: Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780835743303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir John Edwin Sandys
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 714
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rosie Wyles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 0198725205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLa 4e de couverture indique : "the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship."
Author: David M. Honey
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Published: 2021-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781680539608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume of David M. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition's proto-classicist. This opening volume examines Confucius traditions that largely formed the views of later classicists, who regarded him as their profession's patron saint. Honey's survey begins by examining how these views informed the Chinese classicists' own identities as textual critics and interpreters, all dedicated to self-cultivation for government service. It focuses on Confucius's methods as a proto-classical master and teacher, and on the media in which he worked, including the spoken word and written texts. As Honey explains, Confucius's immediate motivations were twofold: the moral development of himself and his disciples and the ritual application of the lessons from the classics. His instruction occurred in ritualized settings in the form of a question and answer catechism between master and disciples. This pedagogical approach will be analyzed through the interpretive paradigm of "performative ritual," borrowed from recent studies of Greek classical drama. The volume concludes with a detailed treatment of a trio of Confucius's disciples who were most prominent in transmitting his teachings, and with chapters on his intellectual inheritors, Mencius and Xunzi.
Author: Jane Iwamura
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-01-14
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0199792852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and religious traditions provided initial engagements with Asian spiritual traditions. Virtual Orientalism shows the evolution of these interactions, from direct engagements with specific individuals to mediated relations with a conventionalized icon: the Oriental Monk. Visually and psychically compelling, the Oriental Monk becomes for Americans a ''figure of translation''--a convenient symbol for alternative spiritualities and modes of being. Through the figure of the solitary Monk, who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West, Asian religiosity is made manageable-psychologically, socially, and politically--for popular culture consumption. Iwamura's insightful study shows that though popular engagement with Asian religions in the United States has increased, the fact that much of this has taken virtual form makes stereotypical constructions of "the spiritual East" obdurate and especially difficult to challenge.
Author: Roman Piso
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 142692996X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvidence shows the New Testament texts were not written by simple, non-royal subjects, but instead were created by extremely well-educated, royal Romans. In Piso Christ, author Roman Piso, with Jay Gallus, presents a new perspective to show that the creation of Christianity has different origins than previously taught. Through this collection of essays and articles, Piso shows that only a few individuals invented and built the Christian religion, and these same individuals authored the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Piso Christ addresses the issues of how these few people wielded that much power and how they were able to succeed. In this new book, Piso contends that the royalty wanted to protect their centuries-old institution of slavery upon which the empire functioned, lived, fed, and gained wealth. The royal people understood that knowledge was power and, therefore, did what they could to keep the masses ignorant and superstitious. Through research, Piso Christ shows that the god concept did not originate in what is represented in the Bible. It demonstrates how millions of people are being misled into accepting the concept of a god and how they live in fear of an unnatural belief.
Author: Stephanos Matthaios
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 3110254034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume aims at investigating archetypes, concepts and contexts of the ancient philological discipline from a historical, methodological and ideological perspective. It includes 26 contributions by leading scholars divided into four sections: The ancient scholars at work, The ancient grammarians on Greek language and linguistic correctness, Ancient grammar in historical context and Ancient grammar in interdisciplinary context.
Author: Constanze Güthenke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1107104238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.
