Power, Paideia & Pythagoreanism
Author | : Jan-Jaap Flinterman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2023-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004525742 |
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Author | : Jan-Jaap Flinterman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2023-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004525742 |
Author | : Barbara E. Borg |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110204711 |
In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, and poetry joined with rhetorical brilliance and a presentable manner became the outward appearance of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This outward appearance guaranteed a high social status as well as political and economical power for the individual and major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related particularly to Classical Greek antiquity, it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general.
Author | : Carl A. Huffman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 659 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139915983 |
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Author | : Charles H. Kahn |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2001-09-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1603846824 |
A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
Author | : Koen De Temmerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 793 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198703015 |
This Handbook presents the first wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. It offers in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, examines biographical depictions in different textual and visual media, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras.
Author | : Stelios Panayotakis |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9491431927 |
The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters are presented either as holy or as charlatans but in several cases the two categories cannot be easily distinguished from each other. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives.
Author | : Wendy Cotter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134814410 |
Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world. The material is divided up into four main categories including healing, exorcism, nature and raising the dead. Wendy Cotter, in an introduction and notes to the selections, contextualizes the miracles within the background of the Greco-Roman world and also compares the stories to other Jewish and non-Jewish miracle stories of the Mediterranean world. This sourcebook provides an interdisciplinary collection of material which will be of value to students of the New Testament.
Author | : Michael Vicko Zolondek |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2023-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666721530 |
Throughout the "quest for the historical Jesus," there has been a parallel quest aimed at discovering new and improved methodologies for studying his life. This methodological quest was originally driven by the belief that the Gospels are so unique (even sui generis) among the literary works of their time that such "historical experimentation" (to use Schweitzer's words) is necessary for the task of reconstructing Jesus's life. Although most scholars today characterize the Gospels as a form of Graeco-Roman biography rather than sui generis literature, they nevertheless have continued this quest for new methodologies. This has left historical Jesus studies in a problematic methodological state. In this book, Zolondek argues that if the Gospels are indeed types of Graeco-Roman biographies of Jesus, then no such experimentation is necessary. Rather, historical Jesus scholars should instead be adopting the standard methodological practices that historians and classicists have for decades used to effectively reconstruct the lives of other ancient persons who were also the subjects of Graeco-Roman biographies. After providing examples of three such methodological practices, Zolondek goes on to offer suggestions as to how scholars might apply them to the study of Jesus and, in doing so, end their long-running methodological quest.
Author | : Mladen Popović |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047420462 |
This study deals with physiognomic and astrological texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls that represent one of the earliest examples of ancient Jewish science. For the first time the Hebrew physiognomic-astrological list 4Q186 (4QZodiacal Physiognomy) and the Aramaic physiognomic list 4Q561 (4QPhysiognomy ar) are comprehensively studied in relation to both physiognomic and astrological writings from Babylonian and Greco-Roman traditions. New reconstructions and interpretations of these learned lists are offered that result in a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within both the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism at large, showing that Jewish culture in Palestine participated in the cultural exchange of learned knowledge between Babylonian and Greco-Roman cultures.
Author | : Tomas Hägg |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520223882 |
How classical narrative models were adapted as early Christian culture took shape and developed.