The Alexandrian School
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Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2008-09-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520258169 |
This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.
Author | : Mr. Jerningham (Edward) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1809 |
Genre | : Alexandria (Egypt) |
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Author | : J. Paul Getty Museum |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996-09-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892362928 |
One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to which it gave its name, made a vital contribution to the development of intellectual and cultural heritage in the Occidental world. This book brings together twenty papers delivered at a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture.” With nearly two hundred illustrations, this handsome volume presents some of the world’s leading scholars on the continuing influence and fascination of this great city. The distinguished contributors include Peter Green, R. R. R. Smith, and the late Bernard Bothmer.
Author | : Edward Jerningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1809 |
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Author | : Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613102313 |
Author | : Clement of Alexandria |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813211859 |
Books One to Three of the Stromateis establish Clement's fundamental theology--a harmony of faith and knowledge that places Greek philosophy at the service of faith, which is, to Clement, more important than knowledge.
Author | : Clement of Alexandria |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813211239 |
Author | : Judith McKenzie |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780300115550 |
This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium—from the city’s founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious. But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains, written sources, and an array of other fragmentary evidence. The book approaches its subject at the macro- and the micro-level: from city-planning, building types, and designs to architectural style. It addresses the interaction between the imported Greek and native Egyptian traditions; the relations between the architecture of Alexandria and the other cities and towns of Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean world; and Alexandria’s previously unrecognized role as a major source of architectural innovation and artistic influence. Lavishly illustrated with new plans of the city in the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine periods; reconstruction drawings; and photographs, the book brings to life the ancient city and uncovers the true extent of its architectural legacy in the Mediterranean world.
Author | : Clement of Alexandria |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
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Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated in song to this day in the chorus of the Greeks; the one for having allured the fishes, and the other for having surrounded Thebes with walls by the power of music. Another, a Thracian, a cunning master of his art (he also is the subject of a Hellenic legend), tamed the wild beasts by the mere might of song; and transplanted trees—oaks—by music. I might tell you also the story of another, a brother to these—the subject of a myth, and a minstrel—Eunomos the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper. A solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate the death of the Pythic serpent, when Eunomos sang the reptile’s epitaph.
Author | : Roelof van den Broek |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004439684 |
The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (1945) has given an enormous impetus not only to the study of ancient Gnosticism but also to that of early Christianity in general. Most of the studies contained in this volume deal with mythological conceptions and theological ideas found in various Nag Hammadi writings. The gnostic views on the nature of God and on creation and salvation receive particular attention, ranging from Philo to the medieval Cathars. The Nag Hammadi Library also shed new light on the development of early Alexandrian Christianity and its theology. The book contains six studies which explicitly deal with these topics. This volume is of interest to students of Gnosticism, early Christianity and Graeco-Roman religious and philosophical ideas in general.