Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Classical Weekly
Author: The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity
Author: Ross Shepard KraemerPublisher:
ISBN: 0190222271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. By the fifth century, much of the rich material evidence for Greek and Latin-speaking Jews in the diaspora diminishes sharply. Ross Shepard Kraemer argues that this increasing absence of evidence is evidence of increasing absence of Jews themselves. Literary sources, late antique Roman laws, and archaeological remains illuminate how Christian bishops and emperors used a variety of tactics to coerce Jews into conversion: violence, threats of violence, deprivation of various legal rights, exclusion from imperial employment, and others. Unlike other non-orthodox Christians, Jews who resisted conversion were reluctantly tolerated, perhaps because of beliefs that Christ's return required their conversion. In response to these pressures, Jews leveraged political and social networks for legal protection, retaliated with their own acts of violence, and sometimes became Christians. Some may have emigrated to regions where imperial laws were more laxly enforced, or which were under control of non-orthodox (Arian) Christians. Increasingly, they embraced forms of Jewish practice that constructed tighter social boundaries around them. The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity concludes that by the beginning of the seventh century, the orthodox Christianization of the Roman Empire had cost diaspora Jews--and all non-orthodox persons, including Christians--dearly.
Queer Euripides
Author: Sarah OlsenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350249629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act.
The Classical Association
Author: Christopher StrayPublisher: New Surveys in the Classics S
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This book provides both a narrative history of the Classical Association in the 20th century and a series of studies of different aspects of its work. It includes detailed accounts of the Association's branches, conferences and journals, and ends with a discussion of the long series of presidential addresses (three of which are reprinted). A centenary account of the Classical Association of Scotland (founded in 1902) is also included. Several appendices provide factual information on the presidents and other officers, and on the Association's archives.
Sophists
Author: Mauro BonazziPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108706216
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
From Socrates and Plato onwards, the Sophists were often targeted by the authoritative philosophical tradition as being mere charlatans and poor teachers. This book, translated and significantly updated from its most recent Italian version (2nd edition, 2013), challenges these criticisms by offering an overall interpretation of their thought, and by assessing the specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon. A new vision of the Sophists emerges: they are protagonists and agents of fundamental change in the history of ancient philosophy, who questioned the grounds of morality and politics, as well as the nature of knowledge and language. By shifting the focus from the cosmos to man, the Sophists inaugurate an alternative form of philosophy, whose importance is only now becoming clear.
Hesiod's Verbal Craft
Author: Athanassios VergadosPublisher:
ISBN: 0198807716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception of language and the ways in which it represents reality, establishing his position in early Greek philosophy and shedding new light on a hitherto under-explored chapter in early Greek linguistic thought.
The Year's Work in Classical Studies
Author: Cambridge Latin Anthology
Author: Cambridge School Classics ProjectPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521808873
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight thematic sections of poetry include works by Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, martial, Ovid, Petronius, Seneca and Virgil. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and other explanations are provided opposite each of the texts, and the writing is illustrated throughout by paintings and photographs of artifacts in the Roman world. For the student, there is a complete vocabulary at the end of the book. For the teacher, there is an accompanying handbook giving additional suggestions for discussions in the classroom.
Proceedings of the Classical Association
Author: Classical Association (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Rules and list of members included in each volume.
Greek Religion
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780199220731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A brief but highly informative book on Greek religion in the classical period.