Garland of Graeco-Roman Witty Utterances
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Matthew W Dickie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134533365
This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us to the underside of Greek and Roman society, into a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and wonder-workers, and into the lives of prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers. This fascinating reconstruction of the careers of witches and sorcerors allows us to see into previously inaccessible areas of Greco-Roman life. Compelling for both its detail and clarity, and with an extraordinarily revealing breadth of evidence employed, it will be an essential resource for anyone studying ancient magic.
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195151237
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.
Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : 9780192100207
The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Author : Phineas Garrett
Publisher :
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Recitations
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Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Hans-Josef Klauck
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567089434
This is a uniquely well-informed and comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman environment of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, the volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civic religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and 'magic'), there is extended discussion of mystery cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism. A valuable textbook for advanced students, as well as an authoritative reference work for scholars.
Author : Horace
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Horace
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Latin literature
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Author : Marcus Terentius Varro
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2015-09-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781341745263
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