Author: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Lyra Graeca
Author: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies
Author: Dag Øistein Endsjø
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101816
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
As the first monk in the desert, Antony became an early Christian superstar, eclipsing his many ascetic predecessors. The introduction of asceticism into the wilderness also represented an encounter between Christian and Hellenistic ideas. For centuries Greeks had considered the uncultivated geography intrinsically primordial, a chaotic place where man struggled to remain human. The wilderness represented an eternal ordeal, where man always faced fierce beasts, disorder, and death, but also where simultaneously he could attain boundless wealth, wisdom, and even physical immortality. Through Athanasius of Alexandria's fourth-century biography of Antony, we learn how the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies and immortality raised asceticism to an entirely new level. Placed in his uncultivated landscape, Antony became a true martyr, an athlete of God, and a holy man able to retrieve the bodily incorruptibility lost in the Fall, which all Christians could look forward to at the end of times. In this way Athanasius employed a traditional Greek worldview to demonstrate the superiority of Christianity over Paganism, which never promised ordinary people anything but an eternal existence as dead and disembodied souls.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101816
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
As the first monk in the desert, Antony became an early Christian superstar, eclipsing his many ascetic predecessors. The introduction of asceticism into the wilderness also represented an encounter between Christian and Hellenistic ideas. For centuries Greeks had considered the uncultivated geography intrinsically primordial, a chaotic place where man struggled to remain human. The wilderness represented an eternal ordeal, where man always faced fierce beasts, disorder, and death, but also where simultaneously he could attain boundless wealth, wisdom, and even physical immortality. Through Athanasius of Alexandria's fourth-century biography of Antony, we learn how the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies and immortality raised asceticism to an entirely new level. Placed in his uncultivated landscape, Antony became a true martyr, an athlete of God, and a holy man able to retrieve the bodily incorruptibility lost in the Fall, which all Christians could look forward to at the end of times. In this way Athanasius employed a traditional Greek worldview to demonstrate the superiority of Christianity over Paganism, which never promised ordinary people anything but an eternal existence as dead and disembodied souls.
Lyra Graeca
Author: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Hellenistic Poetry
Author: David Sider
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry
A History of Ancient Greek
Author: Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521833078
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521833078
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Union Catalog of Foreign Books Acquired by 49 Libraries in Japan
Author: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Lyra Graeca
Author: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher:
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Category : Greek poetry
Languages : la
Pages : 724
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : la
Pages : 724
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Lyra Graeca
Author: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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