Los oráculos de Heródoto. Tipología, estructura y función narrativa

Los oráculos de Heródoto. Tipología, estructura y función narrativa
Author: Sánchez Mañas, Carmen
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 8416935084

Para los antiguos griegos, consultar o recibir oráculos significaba comunicarse directamente con los dioses. Por ello, solían recurrir a estos para resolver las más variadas cuestiones de las esferas pública y privada, desde la forja de alianzas políticas hasta la falta de descendencia. En más de un centenar de pasajes de su obra, Heródoto reflejó esta práctica con su característico estilo rico y ameno. Este libro lleva a cabo un análisis crítico y exhaustivo de dichos pasajes oraculares, el cual demuestra que, al margen de su valor como fenómeno religioso, los oráculos proporcionan al historiador de Halicarnaso un instrumento óptimo para la descripción de situaciones y la caracterización de personajes.

A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic

A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004404473

This volume approaches Plutarch’s intellectual and professional activity, and the the way he managed to cover such an impressive range of areas and interests, which make of his work an inexhaustible source of information on the ancient world.

On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian

On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 806
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0141393580

What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world. The study of history was invented in the classical world. Treading uncharted waters, writers such as Plutarch and Lucian grappled with big questions such as how history should be written, how it differs from poetry and oratory, and what its purpose really is. This book includes complete essays by Dionysius, Plutarch and Lucian, as well as shorter pieces by Pliny the Younger, Cicero and others, and will be an essential resource for anyone studying history and the ancient world.

Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero

Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199699720

Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about orators and not military men. With the translations and commentaries, Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the context of the texts, the author, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.

Herodotus in Context

Herodotus in Context
Author: Rosalind Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521012416

An examination of Herodotus' Histories in the context of the intellectual developments of his time.

Symposiacs

Symposiacs
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781724975072

Symposiacs By Plutarch Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus), was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Symposiacs is one of Plutarch's less known essays. Has it happens to many works of antiquity like this one, small pieces of the book are missing. Unfortunately because of that, some "questions" made in the Symposiacs are forever missing an answer. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Athenian Constitution

The Athenian Constitution
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1984-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780140444315

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The writer recounts the major reforms of Solon, the rule of the tyrant Pisistratus and his sons, the emergence of the democracy in which power was shared by all free male citizens, and the leadership of Pericles and the demagogues who followed him. He goes on to examine the city's administration in his own time - the council, the officials and the judicial system. For its information on Athens' development and how the democracy worked, The Athenian Constitution is an invaluable source of knowledge about the Athenian city-state. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Museum Theory

Museum Theory
Author: Andrea Witcomb
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119642086

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. Organized around three themes—Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory—the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle

Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle
Author: Hugh Bowden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521823739

The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which concern to do the will of the gods affected Athenian politics, challenging the notion that Athenian democracy may be seen as a model for modern secular democratic constitutions. All the known consultations of the oracle by Athens in the period before 300 BC are examined, and descriptions of consultations found in Attic tragedy and comedy are discussed. This work provides a new account of how the Delphic oracle functioned and presents a thorough analysis of the relationship between the Athenians and the oracle, making it essential reading both for students of the oracle itself and of Athenian democracy.