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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Apulei Apologia
Author: Apologia sive Pro se de magia liber
Author: Harold Edgeworth Butler, Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius, Arthur Synge OwenPublisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487401270
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Apvlei Apologia sive pro se de magia liber
Author: ApuleiusGenealogy of Popular Science
Author: Jesús Muñoz MorcilloPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839448352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations. This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
Apulei Apologia
Author: ApuleiusPublisher:
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Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance
Author: Corinne J. SaundersPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature
Author: Andreas N. MichalopoulosPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311060986X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion).
Envisioning Magic
Author: Peter SchäferPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004378979
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The common theme is the interrelation between magic and religion, focussing particularly on the Mediterranean world in Antiquity - Egyptian, Graeco-Roman and Jewish beliefs and customs - but also treating the early modern period in Northern Europe (the Netherlands and Germany) as well as offering more general reflections on elements of magic in language and Jewish mysticism. The volume is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and the use of varied methodologies, emphasizing the dynamic nature of the often contradictory forces shaping religious beliefs and practices, while dismissing the idea of a linear development from magic to religion or vice versa. The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields: Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Early Christianity, Islamic Studies, Anthropology, Egyptology and Comparative Literature. Without a doubt this re-evaluation of a fascinating age-old subject will stimulate scholarly discussion and appeal to educated non-specialist readers as well.
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author: Daniel OgdenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195151237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
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