Philosophy And Power In The Graeco Roman World
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Philosophy and Power in the Graeco Roman World
Author | : Miriam Tamara Griffin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : 0198299907 |
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Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings togetherseventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Plinythe Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, Ulpian, Augustine, the Neoplatonist tradition, women philosophers, provision for basic human needs, the development of law, the formulation of imperial power, and the interpretation of Judaism and early Christianity. Emperors and drop-outs, mediastars and administrators, top politicians and abstruse professionals, even ordinary citizens in their epitaphs, were variously called philosophers. Philosophy could offer those in power moral support or confrontation, a language for making choices or an intellectual diversion, but they mightdisregard philosophy and get on with the exercise of power. 'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', but what was the power of philosophy?
Philosophy and Power in the Graeco Roman World
Author | : E. Gillian Clark,Tessa Rajak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : 0191707805 |
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PDF (xvii, 348 p.) : col. ill.
Dionysus and Politics
Author | : Filip Doroszewski,Dariusz Karłowicz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000392418 |
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This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.
Christianity Philosophy and Roman Power
Author | : Lea Niccolai |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2023-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009299299 |
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Rethinks Rome's Christianisation as a crisis of knowledge propelled by Constantine, with Emperor Julian as its key interpreter and catalyst.
Intellectual and Empire in Greco Roman Antiquity
Author | : Philip R. Bosman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351379809 |
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This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact. How did they negotiate power and its abuses? How did they manage to retain a critical distance from the people they depended upon for their liveli-hood, and even their very existence? These figures include a broad range of prose and poetry authors, dramatists, historians and biographers, philosophers, rhetoricians, religious and other figures of public status. The contributors to the volume consider how such individuals positioned themselves within existing power matrices, and what the approaches and mechanisms were by means of which they negotiated such matrices, whether in the form of opposition, compromise or advocacy. Apart from cutting-edge scholarship on the figures from antiquity investigated, the volume aims to address issues of pertinence in the current political climate, with its manipulation of popular media, and with the increasing interference in the affairs of institutions of higher learning funded from public coffers.
Saint Paul and Philosophy
Author | : Gert Jan van der Heiden,George Henry van Kooten,Antonio Cimino |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110548051 |
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The much-acclaimed present-day philosophical turn to the letters of Saint Paul points to a profound consonance between ancient and modern thought. Such is the bold claim of this study in which scholars from contemporary continental philosophy, new testamentary studies and ancient philosophy discuss with each other the meaning Paul's terms pistis, faith. In this volume, this theme discusses in detail the threefold relation between Paul and (1) continental thought, (2) the Graeco-Roman world, and (3) political theology. It is shown that pistis does not only concern a mode of knowing, but rather concerns the human ethos or mode of existence as a whole. Moreover, it is shown that the present-day political theological interest in Paul can be seen as an attempt to recuperate Paul’s pistis in this comprehensive sense. Finally, an important discussion concerning the specific ontological implications and background of this reinterpretation of pistis is examined by comparing the ancient ontological commitments to those of the present-day philosophers. Thus, the volume offers an insight in a crucial consonance of ancient and modern thought concerning the question of pistis in Paul while not forgetting to stipulate important differences.
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Author | : Zahra Newby |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191515576 |
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The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World
Author | : Michael Peachin |
Publsiher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 755 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195188004 |
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Michael Peachin is Professor of Classics at New York University. --Book Jacket.