Author: Joseph HaydnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A Dictionary of Biography Past and Present
Author: Joseph HaydnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A catalogue of books
Author: Thomas and John EgertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
New Library World
Author: Library World
Author: The Library World
Author: Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Author: Michael TrappPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351899120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction surveying ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and current state of the 'Socratic question'. This is followed by three sections, covering the Socrates of Antiquity, with perspectives forward to later developments (especially in drama and the visual arts); Socrates from Late Antiquity to medieval times; and Socrates in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Among topics singled out for special attention are medieval Arabic and Jewish interest in Socrates, and his role in the European Enlightenment as an emblem of moral courage and as the clinching proof of the follies of democracy.
Catalogus librorum impressorum bibliothecæ collegii b. Mariæ Magdalenæ in academia Oxoniensi. [Followed by] Appendix
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Author: Edward Mactier MacfarlanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Libraries of Edward Webbe ... Alexander Davie ... Francis Carrington ... Lady Mary Worsley
Author: The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture
Author: Helena TaylorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192516876
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.
Attitudes of Seventeenth-century France Toward the Middle Ages
Author: Nathan EdelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description