Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958

Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958
Author: Domenico Accorinti
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004272240

Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.

The Origin and Growth of Religion

The Origin and Growth of Religion
Author: Wilhelm Schmidt
Publisher: Wythe-North Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780990738602

A much-sought-after volume, as it provides a glimpse into philosophy of religion in the early twentieth century. Wilhelm Schmidt, based on his research and observations as an anthropologist, contends the opposite of the evolutionary theory of religion -- which is, that all religions of the world originate in monotheistic worship. Translated by H. J. Rose, a noted scholar of classics, this edition features a new Foreword by Winfried Corduan, Ph.D.

A Handbook of Latin Literature

A Handbook of Latin Literature
Author: Herbert Jennings Rose
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1996
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780865163171

This handbook is a study of Latin literature, including not only the classical and post-classical pagan authors, but also a representative selection of the Christian writers down to the death of St. Augustine.

Fifty Years of Sathers

Fifty Years of Sathers
Author: Sterling Dow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1965
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN:

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Author: Konstantinos Spanoudakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110368110

Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.

A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982

A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982
Author: Terry Seymour
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1467870145

The total number of Everyman's Library volumes that still survive somewhere in the world exceeds 70 million. Since the inception of the Library in 1906, nearly 1200 unique volumes have been published, constantly placing the world's greatest books before a large public. A few of these titles proved unpopular and were never reprinted. But most were reprinted dozens of times, packaged in numerous ways, and benefited from updated editorial work and book design over the last century. Terry Seymour has studied and researched every aspect of this great mass of books. He now captures and distills this knowledge in A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982. A critical feature, of course, is to update the various collecting factoids that have emerged since 2005 when his Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library was published. The meat of the new book, however, is the Bibliographical Entries section. Each volume that has ever been printed receives its own entry, detailing every printing, each dust jacket variation, any new introductions, updated scarcity numbers, and all relevant notes. Typically an entry contains at least six lines of information, but often much more. In essence, each entry is a story written exclusively about each volume. Armed with this resource, collectors and booksellers can know reliably everything about the Everyman's Library volume that sits on their shelf or is ready to be purchased or sold. They will see how a book fits into the total printing history of that title, and be able to describe and value the book with precision. To further enhance the value of this book, color images illustrate all of the key collecting points. An extensive index of editors, translators and artists is now included. Not just a solo effort, the Printing History has been vetted by other expert collectors, ensuring greater accuracy and comprehensiveness.