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The Greek World in the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC
This volume contains eight studies written by scholars from Great Britain, Israel, Poland, and the United States. The contributors are all specialists in Greek history, and their essays deal with different aspects of the period's history, focusing on historiography, political evelopments, and military actions and events.
Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
Engaging introduction by leading scholars to the many aspects of Plutarch's numerous and varied works and their subsequent reception.
Plutarch and His Roman Readers
Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare and Harry Truman. This collection of essays on Plutarch's Parallel Lives examines the moral issues Plutarch recognized behind political leadership, and relates his writings to the audience of leading generals and administrators of the Roman empire which he aimed to influence, and to the larger social and political context of the reigns of the Flavian emperors and their successors, Nerva and Trajan, during which he wrote. The essays explore Plutarch's considered views on how his contemporaries could - and we ourselves can - learn from the successes and failures of the great men of the past. -- Dust jacket
Amor e morte na cultura clássica
Amor e Morte na Cultura Clássica procura estudar, dentro da “dinâmica do mito de Eros ou o homem face à problemática do amor”, o binómio ‘amor e morte’ – ou melhor, apenas alguns aspectos ou pontos essenciais da interseção desse binómio que possam servir de paradigma e incentivo. Assim são analisados casos de amor que provoca destruição, como o de Páris e Helena ou que é causa de morte, como o de Dejanira por Héracles e o de Dido por Eneias; de amor que leva à rejeição da imortalidade para regressar para junto da pessoa amada, como acontece com Ulisses; de amor que vence a morte, de que apresento os casos de Alceste e Orfeu; sem esquecer o caso de Eros e Psique, onde a sombra da morte também paira. Por fim, coloca-se um capítulo sobre a interferência mútua de eros, pólemos e thánatos (ou seja, amor, guerra e morte), casos onde as situações se complicam e as consequências são mais gravosas.
The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.
Plutarch in the Religious and Philosophical Discourse of Late Antiquity
Either as insider or as sensitive observer, Plutarch provides us with exceptional evidence to reconstruct the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere of the first centuries CE. This collection of articles sheds important light on the religious and philosophical discourse of Late Antiquity.
Plutarch's Cities
Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptio...
Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World
This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.
