Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems

Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems
Author: Michiel Meeusen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9462700842

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general.

Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts

Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004505075

“Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire" is a fitting description of both the religio-philosophical spirit of Plutarch and the task of bringing his writings into fruitful dialogue with the New Testament and Early Christian writings. The contributions in this volume explore various ways of how to do it.

It's Silence, Soundly

It's Silence, Soundly
Author: John McGreal
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1785892231

It’s Silence, Soundly, It’s Nothing, Seriously and It’s Absence, Presently, continue The ‘It’ Series published by Matador since The Book of It (2010). They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. In their aesthetic form the books are a decentred trilogy united together in a new concept of The Bibliograph. All three present this new aesthetic object, which transcends the narrow limits of the academic bibliography. The alphabetical works also share a tripartite structure and identical length. The Bibliograph itself is characterised by its strategic place within each book as a whole as well as by the complex variations in meaning of the dominant motifs – nothing/ness, absence and silence – which recur throughout the alphabetical entries that constitute the elements of each text. It’s Nothing, Seriously, for example, addresses the amusing paradox that so much continues to be written today about – nothing! The aleatory character of the entries in the texts encourage the modern reader to reflect on each theme and to read them in a new way. The reader is invited as well to examine their various inter-textual relations across given conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical & social reproduction.

The Language of Roman Letters

The Language of Roman Letters
Author: Olivia Elder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1108480160

Explores in depth how bilingualism in the correspondence of elite Romans illuminates their lives, relationships and identities.

Studies in Early Greek Philosophy

Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
Author: Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004382062

The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.

Greece’s labyrinth of language

Greece’s labyrinth of language
Author: Raf Van Rooy
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 245
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961102104

Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.

The Biography of "the Idea of Literature"

The Biography of
Author: Adrian Marino
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791428931

A comprehensive examination of the meaning, history, and evolution of the basic notion of "literature" from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Philosophy as a Way of Life
Author: Pierre Hadot
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1995-08-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631180333

This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.