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After Antiquity
Author | : Margaret Alexiou |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Byzantine literature |
ISBN | : 0801433010 |
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With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In her new, eagerly awaited book, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.
The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity
Author | : Daya Ram Varma |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781456842123 |
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Ethnography After Antiquity
Author | : Anthony Kaldellis |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812208405 |
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Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world.
Ephesus After Antiquity
Author | : Clive Foss |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521220866 |
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Professor Foss charts the fluctuations of Ephesus from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries.
After Antiquity
Author | : Margaret Alexiou |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501720499 |
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With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In her new, eagerly awaited book, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.
The Last Great War of Antiquity
Author | : James Howard-Johnston |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198830191 |
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The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.
Ephesus After Antiquity
Author | : Clive Foss |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Ephesus (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity
Author | : Gerald A. Press |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-09-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780773563971 |
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An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees history as linear and unique - a consequence of their messianic and hence radically temporal theology. Gerald Press presents a more general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that, therefore, Christianity's victory over paganism included the replacement or supersession of one intellectual world by another - and then shows that, contrary to this view, there was substantial continuity between "pagan" and Christian ideas of history in antiquity, rather than a striking opposition between cyclic and linear patterns. He finds that the foundation of the Christian view of history as goal-directed lies in the rhetorical rather than the theological motives of early Christian writers.