The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Author: Marcia L. Colish
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Fathers of the church, Latin
ISBN: 9789004093300

Volume one, Stoicism in classical Latin literature (09327-3), approaches its subject from the standpoint of intellectual history, examining how Stoicism was used by Roman thinkers, for what purposes, and how they correlated it with their other sources. Volume two, Stoicism in Christian Latin thought through the sixth century, (09328-1), focuses on how a particular Latin Christian author used Stoic ideas, to what ends, and how they were associated in his mind with the other doctrines he had to work with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Philosophizing Muse

The Philosophizing Muse
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443869856

PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
Author: Michael John MacDonald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199731594

Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.

L. Annaeus Cornutus

L. Annaeus Cornutus
Author: George Boys-Stones
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884142949

The first English translation of Greek Theology The first-century CE North African philosopher Cornutus lived in Rome as a philosopher and is best known today for his surviving work Greek Theology, which explores the origins and names of the Greek gods. However, he was also interested in the language and literature of the poets Persius and Lucan and wrote one of the first commentaries on Virgil. This book collects and translates all of our evidence for Cornutus for the first time and includes the first published English translation of Greek Theology. This collection offers entirely fresh insight into the intellectual world of the first century. Features Translation based on the latest critical text The first truly holistic picture of Cornutus’s intellectual profile A new account of the early debate over Aristotle’s Categories and the Stoic contribution to it