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Of Isis and Osiris

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781468024111
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Of Isis and Osiris written by Plutarch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And therefore the desire of truth, especially in what relates to the Gods, is a sort of grasping after divinity, it using learning and enquiry for a kind of resumption of things sacred, a work doubtless of more religion than any ritual purgation or charge of temples whatever, and especially most acceptable to the Goddess you serve, since she is more eminently wise and speculative, and since knowledge and science (as her very name seems to import) appertain more peculiarly to her than any other thing. For the name of Isis is Greek, and so is that of her adversary Typhon, who, being puffed up through ignorance and mistake, pulls in pieces and destroys that holy doctrine, which she on the contrary collects, compiles, and delivers down to such as are regularly advanced unto the deified state; which, by constancy of sober diet, and abstaining from sundry meats and the use of women, both restrains the intemperate and voluptuous part, and habituates them to austere and hard services in the temples, the end of which is the knowledge of the original, supreme, and mental being, which the Goddess would have them enquire for, as near to herself and as dwelling with her.

Plutarch's Theological Writings and Early Christian Literature

Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900467232X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Theological Writings and Early Christian Literature written by Hans Dieter Betz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Philosophers Saved Myths

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226075389
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book How Philosophers Saved Myths written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

Traditions of the Magi

Author : Albert F. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301461
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Traditions of the Magi written by Albert F. de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full treatment of the Greek and Latin references to Zoroastrianism since the pioneering works of Benveniste, Bidez & Cumont, and Clemen. It focuses on the possibilities offered by the classical reports on Zoroastrianism to reconstruct the history of that faith. The book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with introductory problems concerning ancient religious ethnography and current views of the history of Zoroastrianism. The second section consists of commentaries on five selected passages. The third section offers a thematical overview of the materials and their relevance for the history of Iranian religions. Apart from offering introductions to a wide range of debates and topics in Classics and Iranian studies, the book aims to illustrate the diversity of beliefs and practices in ancient Zoroastrianism.

The Origins of Osiris and His Cult

Author : John Gwyn Griffiths
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004060968
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Osiris and His Cult written by John Gwyn Griffiths and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1980 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. and enl. ed. of: The origins of Osiris. 1966. (Mèunchner èagyptologische Studien; 9)

The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination

Author : Adeline Grand-Clément
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350169749
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination written by Adeline Grand-Clément and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also theatrical performance, museum exhibitions, advertising, television series, historical reenactment and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique.

The Colossian Hymn in Context

Author : Matthew E. Gordley
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161492556
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Colossian Hymn in Context written by Matthew E. Gordley and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suggestion that the New Testament contains citations of early Christological hymns has long been a controversial issue in New Testament scholarship. As a way of advancing this facet of New Testament research, Matthew E. Gordley examines the Colossian hymn (Col 1:15-20) in light of its cultural and epistolary contexts. As a result of a broad comparative analysis, he claims that Col 1:15-20 is a citation of a prose-hymn which represents a fusion of Jewish and Greco-Roman conventions for praising an exalted figure. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism demonstrates that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise. Likewise, a review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world demonstrates that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition. In light of these hymnic traditions of antiquity, the analysis of the form and content of the Colossian hymn shows how the passage fits well into a Greco-Roman context, and indicates that it is best understood as a quasi-philosophical prose-hymn cited in the context of a paraenetic letter. Finally, in view of ancient epistolary and rhetorical theory and practice, an analysis of the role of the hymn in Colossians suggests that the hymn serves a number of significant rhetorical functions throughout the remainder of the letter.

The Eye and Man in Ancient Egypt

Author : Richey L. Waugh
Publisher : Wayenborgh Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9062998909
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Eye and Man in Ancient Egypt written by Richey L. Waugh and published by Wayenborgh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's de Iside Et Osiride

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Cardiff : University of Wales P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's de Iside Et Osiride written by Plutarch and published by Cardiff : University of Wales P.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET)

Author : Valentino Gasparini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381341
Total Pages : 1191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET) written by Valentino Gasparini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 1191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.

De Iside et Osiride

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book De Iside et Osiride written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

De Iside et Osiride

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book De Iside et Osiride written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Isis and Osiris

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505227727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Isis and Osiris written by Plutarch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia) apparently occupied little of his time. He led an active social and civic life while producing an extensive body of writing, much of which survived. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia. Plutarch's Isis and Osiris is one of the most important historical documents on the myths and religion of the Egyptians.

Decoding the Osirian Myth

Author : Panagiota Sarischouli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111435210
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Decoding the Osirian Myth written by Panagiota Sarischouli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest written references to the Osirian myth-complex appeared already in the Pyramid Text spells (c. 2400–2300 BCE). The most complete exposition of this ancient Egyptian myth is, however, found in the Greek treatise On Isis and Osiris, in which the 2nd-century CE Platonist Plutarch utilises Egyptian mythology to advocate his philosophical ideas concerning the divine and the nature of the cosmos. This book aims at “decoding” Plutarch’s narrative of the Osirian myth, linking his claims to the existing Egyptian and Greek parallels. It thus analyses a multitude of mythic and religious traditions from a transcultural perspective, exploring the relation of the Pharaonic features of the Osirian divinities to the features they had acquired in Ptolemaic and Roman times, interpreting the Egyptian myth within the overall framework of parallel mythologies from other cultures, and examining whether the brief mythic stories (historiolae) recited in Late Egyptian ritual texts can be deployed to enrich the context of certain obscure episodes in Plutarch’s account of the myth. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Plutarch and later Middle Platonism, but also to Egyptologists. Due to its thematic variety and scope, this publication will also appeal to a wider array of readers (specialists and non-specialists alike) interested in religious syncretism, interreligious connections, and the challenge of multiculturalism from Hellenistic times until Late Antiquity.

Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated

Author : Gerald Verbrugghe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086870
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated written by Gerald Verbrugghe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the world of the pharaohs and Alexander the Great

Melchizedek and Melchirešac

Author : Paul J. Kobelski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666780146
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Melchizedek and Melchirešac written by Paul J. Kobelski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph explores the meaning and role of Melchizedek and Melchiresac in Judaism of late antiquity. In Part I four texts from Qumran are transcribed from the published photographs and translated: 11QMelchizedek, 4Q'Amramb, 4QṬeharot D, and 4QBerakot A. The commentary focuses on establishing the reading of the texts and restorations made on the basis of parallel biblical passages and other writings among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Part II examines the role of the heavenly Melchizedek in the Qumran literature, particularly in relation to his evil counterpart, Melchiresac. These two figures serve as opposing angels who act as leaders of the earthly and heavenly kingdoms of the sons of light and the sons of darkness. Certain Zoroastrian religious concepts that were well known before the second century B.C.E. and that parallel the Essene belief in the spirit-leaders of the worlds of light and darkness are also investigated. Part III discusses the influence of the heavenly Melchizedek on the Johannine concept of the Paraclete, on the comparison between Christ and Melchizedek in the NT letter to the Hebrews, on the NT Son of Man, and on the identification of Melchizedek with the angel Michael.

A Versatile Gentleman

Author : Jan Opsomer
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700761
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book A Versatile Gentleman written by Jan Opsomer and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view of all these different personae, erudite versatility is without any doubt a major characteristic of Plutarch’s works. A Versatile Gentleman is dedicated to Luc Van der Stockt, professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at KU Leuven and a truly versatile gentleman. The volume aims to do justice to his and Plutarch’s versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch’s thinking and writing.