Author: PlutarchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Morals
Author: PlutarchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Classical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
Plutarch's Morals
Author: PlutarchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Covenant of Salt
Author: H. Clay TrumbullPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732636666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Covenant of Salt by H. Clay Trumbull
Symposiacs
Author: PlutarchPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724975072
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Symposiacs By Plutarch Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus), was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Symposiacs is one of Plutarch's less known essays. Has it happens to many works of antiquity like this one, small pieces of the book are missing. Unfortunately because of that, some "questions" made in the Symposiacs are forever missing an answer. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays
Author: PlutarchPlutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians
Author: Frederick E. BrenkPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004532471
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The present book includes sixteen studies by Professor Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians. Of them, thirteen were published earlier in different venues and three appear here for the first time. Written between 2009 and 2022, these studies not only provide an excellent example of Professor Brenk’s incisiveness and deep knowledge of Plutarch; they also provide an excellent overview of Plutarchan studies of the last years on a variety of themes. Indeed, one of the most salient characteristics of Brenk’s scholarship is his constant interaction and conversation with the most recent scholarly literature.
Romantic Encounters
Author: Melissa FrazierPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804755177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Romantic Encounters focuses on literary periodicals of the 1830s to describe the destabilization of readerly and writerly identities which occurs when Romantic irony meets an apparently rising literary marketplace.
Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity
Author: Olivier DufaultPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1939926122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity provides an example of the innovative power of ancient scholarly patronage by looking at a key moment in the creation of the Greek alchemical tradition. New evidence on scholarly patronage under the Roman empire can be garnered by analyzing the descriptions of learned magoi in several texts from the second to the fourth century CE. Since a common use of the term magos connoted flatterer-like figures (kolakes), it is likely that the figures of "learned sorcerers" found in texts such as Lucian's Philopseudes and the apocryphal Acts of Peter captured the notion that some client scholars exerted undue influence over patrons. The first known author of alchemical commentaries, Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 CE), presented himself neither as a magos nor as an alchemist. In his treatises, he rather appears as a Christian scholar and the client of a rich woman named Theosebeia. In three polemical letters to his patroness, Zosimus attempted to discredit rival specialists of alchemy by describing them as magoi and demon-worshippers and by equating their techniques with Egyptian temple practice. In a subtler attempt to edge out his competitors, Zosimus pointed to their limited education and suggested that true alchemy could only be acquired by a meticulous interpretation of Greek alchemical texts. Extant evidence thus suggests that alchemical texts were first introduced among other Greek scholarly traditions when Zosimus annexed Egyptian temple rituals into the ambit of paideia thanks to the support and venue provided by his patroness.
A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The first thirteen centuries of our era
Author: Lynn ThorndikePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Vols. 1-2 concern the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4, the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6, the 16th century, and vols. 7-8, the 17th century.