Greek And Roman Consolations

Author : H. Baltussen
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589136
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Consolations written by H. Baltussen and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ancient World death came - on average - at a far earlier age than in today's West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more prominent role to play. This volume presents eight original studies on consolatory writings from ancient Greek, Roman, early Christian and Arabic societies. The authors include internationally recognised authorities in the field. They offer insight into the ancient experience of loss and the methods used to palliate it. They explore how far there was a consolatory 'genre', involving letters, funerary oratory, epicedia, and philosophical prose. Focusing on responses to grief in numerous ancient authors, this volume finds elements of continuity and of individual variety in modes of consolation, and reveals instructive tensions between the commonplace and the personal.

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Consolation to Polybius written by Seneca and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of Consolation to Polybius' is written by Seneca, and is often considered one of Seneca's Consolations. Scholars often refer to this work as the definitive representation of the part of Seneca's life he spent in exile. This Consolatio addresses Polybius, Emperor Claudius' Literary Secretary, to console him on the death of his brother. The essay contains Seneca's Stoic philosophy, with particular attention to the inescapable reality of death. Seneca also encourages Polybius to distract himself from grief with his busy work schedule.

Author : Paul A. Holloway
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438431
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philippians written by Paul A. Holloway and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul‘s letter to the Philippians offers treasures to the reader--and historical and theological puzzles as well. Paul A. Holloway treats the letter as a literary unity and a letter of consolation, according to Greek and Roman understandings of that genre, written probably in Rome and thus the latest of Paul‘s letters to come down to us. Adapting the methodology of what he calls a new history of religions perspective, Holloway attends carefully to the religious topoi of Philippians, especially the metamorphic myth in chapter 2, and draws significant conclusions about Paul‘s personalism and "mysticism." With succinct and judicious treatments of pertinent exegetical and theological issues throughout, Holloway draws richly on Jewish, Greek, and Roman comparative material to present a complex understanding of the apostle as a Hellenized and Romanized Jew.

Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009220934
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Providence and Narrative in the Theology of John Chrysostom written by Robert Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Chrysostom consoles his suffering flock by employing biblical narratives that carry a distinctive theology of God's loving providence.

Author : Christine R. Trotter
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161624750
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric written by Christine R. Trotter and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004056596
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Ethical Writings and Early Christian Literature written by Hans Dieter Betz and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1978 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonio Donato
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472502213
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity written by Antonio Donato and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years the field of Late Antiquity has advanced significantly. Today we have a picture of this period that is more precise and accurate than before. However, the study of one of the most significant texts of this age, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, has not benefited enough from these advances in scholarship. Antonio Donato aims to fill this gap by investigating how the study of the Consolation can profit from the knowledge of Boethius' cultural, political and social background that is available today. The book focuses on three topics: Boethius' social/political background, his notion of philosophy and its sources, and his understanding of the relation between Christianity and classical culture. These topics deal with issues that are of crucial importance for the exegesis of the Consolation. The study of Boethius' social/political background allows us to gain a better understanding of the identity of the character Boethius and to recognize his role in the Consolation. Examination of the possible sources of Boethius' notion of philosophy and of their influence on the Consolation offers valuable instruments to evaluate the role of the text's philosophical discussions and their relation to its literary features. Finally, the long-standing problem of the lack of overt Christian elements in the Consolation can be enlightened by considering how Boethius relies on a peculiar understanding of philosophy's goal and its relation to Christianity that was common among some of his predecessors and contemporaries.

Author : Myrto Garani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199328382
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy written by Myrto Garani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine, but also poets or historians. It pays attention to the mode in which these works were written (giving rhetoric too its due) and their often conscious reflections on the process of translating, or transferring Greek ideas to Roman contexts"--

Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323139
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World written by Anders Klostergaard Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” offers analyses of Platonic philosophy and piety, the emergence of a common religio-philosophical discourse in Antiquity, the place of Jesus among ancient philosophers, and responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195170725
Total Pages : 3369 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 written by Michael Gagarin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 3369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: