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Harvard Studies In Classical Philology Volume 103
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Book Synopsis Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 103 by : Albert Henrichs
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 103 written by Albert Henrichs and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 103 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: "Perceiving Iliadic Gods" by Daniel Turkeltaub; "The Gods Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1" by Ruth Scodel; "The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad" by Jonas Grethlein; "The Theologian Pherecydes of Syros & the Early Days of Natural Philosophy" by Herbert Granger; "The Derveni Theogony: Many Questions and Some Answers" by Alberto Bernabe; "Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus" by Renaud Gagne; "Sinister Omens, Troubling Oracles, Bad Dreams, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Patterns of Divination in Greek Tragedy" by Albert Henrichs; "The Toys of Dionysos" by Olga Levaniouk; "Philia in Plato's Lysis" by David Wolfsdorf; "How to Make a Monostichos: Strategies of Variation in the Sententiae Menandri" by Vayos Liapis; "The Use of Adjective Interlacing (Double Hyperbaton) in Latin Poetry" by Stanley Hoffer; "The Imperial Pontifex" by Alan Cameron; "Further to Ps.-Quintilian's Longer Declamations" by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; "Neither Fish nor Fowl? Metrical Selection in Martial's Xenia" by Llewelyn Morgan; "A Rhetorical Riddle: The Subject of Dio Chrysostom's First Tarsian Oration" by Christina Kokkinia; "Frontinus and Domitian: Laudes principis in the Strategemata" by Andrew Turner; "The Younger Pliny's Debt to Moral Philosophy" by Miriam Griffin; "Further Notes on Fulgentius" by Gregory Hays; "Re-evaluating E. R. Dodds' Platonism" by Wayne Hankey; "A Copper Alloy Cypriot Tripod at the Harvard University Art Museums" by Sean Hemingway and Henry Lie; and "Odysseus and the Ram in Art and (Con)text: Arthur M. Sackler Museum 1994.8 and the Heros Escape from Polyphemos" by Maura Giles.
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Book Synopsis The New International Encyclopedia by : Frank Moore Colby
Download or read book The New International Encyclopedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936) by : D. Antoine Sutton
Download or read book Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936) written by D. Antoine Sutton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is pivotal reading for laypersons looking for an accurate understanding of the private life and public career of A.E. Housman. Furthermore, it is also essential for any reader seeking to recover a truer image of the Victorian man who, during his lifetime, issued two collections of Romantic poems, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. It will be of particular interest to history buffs, poets, professors and students of classical studies, and instructors in literary criticism, given that it sketches Housman’s biography and examines in detail his scholarship.
Book Synopsis The Immortality Key by : Brian C. Muraresku
Download or read book The Immortality Key written by Brian C. Muraresku and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations. The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since the Stone Age? There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and its miraculous contents have never been found. In the absence of any hard data, whatever happened at the Last Supper remains an article of faith for today’s 2.5 billion Christians. In an unprecedented search for answers, The Immortality Key examines the archaic roots of the ritual that is performed every Sunday for nearly one third of the planet. Religion and science converge to paint a radical picture of Christianity’s founding event. And after centuries of debate, to solve history’s greatest puzzle. Before the birth of Jesus, the Ancient Greeks found salvation in their own sacraments. Sacred beverages were routinely consumed as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries – elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death. The best and brightest from Athens and Rome flocked to the spiritual capital of Eleusis, where a holy beer unleashed heavenly visions for two thousand years. Others drank the holy wine of Dionysus to become one with the god. In the 1970s, renegade scholars claimed this beer and wine – the original sacraments of Western civilization – were spiked with mind-altering drugs. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogenic drinks in antiquity. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. But the smoking gun remains elusive. If these sacraments survived for thousands of years in our remote prehistory, from the Stone Age to the Ancient Greeks, did they also survive into the age of Jesus? Was the Eucharist of the earliest Christians, in fact, a psychedelic Eucharist? With an unquenchable thirst for evidence, Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof. He tours the ruins of Greece with its government archaeologists. He gains access to the hidden collections of the Louvre to show the continuity from pagan to Christian wine. He unravels the Ancient Greek of the New Testament with the world’s most controversial priest. He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianity’s oldest monuments. He breaches the secret archives of the Vatican to unearth manuscripts never before translated into English. And with leads from the archaeological chemists at UPenn and MIT, he unveils the first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs in classical antiquity. The Immortality Key reconstructs the suppressed history of women consecrating a forbidden, drugged Eucharist that was later banned by the Church Fathers. Women who were then targeted as witches during the Inquisition, when Europe’s sacred pharmacology largely disappeared. If the scientists of today have resurrected this technology, then Christianity is in crisis. Unless it returns to its roots. Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the NYT bestselling author of America Before.
Book Synopsis The New International Encyclopædia: Supplement by : Frank Moore Colby
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia: Supplement written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book New International Encyclopedia. Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by : Daisy Dunn
Download or read book The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny written by Daisy Dunn and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.
Book Synopsis The New International Encyclopædia by : Frank Moore Colby
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ovid in the Middle Ages by : James G. Clark
Download or read book Ovid in the Middle Ages written by James G. Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extraordinary influence of Ovid upon the culture - learned, literary, artistic and popular - of medieval Europe.
Book Synopsis The Daēva Cult in the Gāthās by : Amir Ahmadi
Download or read book The Daēva Cult in the Gāthās written by Amir Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world). The daēva cult as it appears in the Gāthās, the oldest part of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Avesta, had eschatological pretentions. The poet of the Gāthās condemns these as deception. The book critically examines various theories put forward since the 19th century to account for the condemnation of the daēvas. It then turns to the relevant Gāthic passages and analyzes them in detail in order to give a picture of the cult and the reasons for its repudiation. Finally, it examines materials from other sources, especially the Greek accounts of Iranian ritual lore (mainly) in the context of the mystery cults. Classical Greek writers consistently associate the nocturnal ceremony of the magi with the mysteries as belonging to the same religious-cultural category. This shows that Iranian religious lore included a nocturnal rite that aimed at ensuring the soul’s journey to the beyond and a desirable afterlife. Challenging the prevalent scholarship of the Greek interpretation of Iranian religious lore and proposing a new analysis of the formation of the Hellenistic concept of ‘magic,’ this book is an important resource for students and scholars of History, Religion and Iranian Studies.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Imagination by : Boris Vezjak
Download or read book Philosophical Imagination written by Boris Vezjak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought experiments by ancient philosophers are often open to debate: in what sense did their reasoning really concern thought experimentation? For instance, in Plato’s Republic, Glaucon uses the myth of Gyges to demonstrate why people who practice justice do so unwillingly. A challenge, posed to Socrates and provided through some sort of thought experiment by imagining the effects of using the ring of invisibility, was intended to answer the question of human nature and our basis for the inclination towards justice or injustice. This collection expands the current, but rare, topic of whether it is possible to articulate a discussion about thought experiments and their arguments from the historical perspective of philosophy and science. It may sometimes seem that, in a loose sense, any philosophical reflection can already be interpreted as some form of thought experiment. Although the functions of it are very diverse and complex, and often closely linked to other cognitive tools, such as visualization, imagination or idealization, the contributions in this book provide new insights into how the concept of a thought experiment coincides with more modern perceptions. The purpose of the book is to show how philosophers, already in antiquity, began to use thought experiments and argumentation to convey theories in an accessible manner and how philosophical hypotheses, often being subjective and impossible to prove through empirical evidence, helped to promote scientific knowledge and discoveries. Different authors develop several lines of argumentation, claiming that philosophical thinking can be understood by comparing it to scientific experimenting, or vice versa: if empirical evidence is usually necessary for science, thought experiments may be used to develop a hypothesis or to prepare for experimentation. The analysis of historical examples of thought experiments might also contribute to a better understanding of philosophical endeavour in antiquity as a whole.
Book Synopsis Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 83 by : Albert Henrichs
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 83 written by Albert Henrichs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980-04-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of fourteen articles includes "The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes," by Susan Scheinberg; "Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought," by Martha Craven Nussbaum; "The Basis of Stoic Ethics," by Nicholas P. White; "New Comedy, Callimachus, and Roman Poetry," by Richard F. Thomas; "On Cicero's Speeches," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii," by Ronald Syme.
Book Synopsis Defining Orphism by : Anthi Chrysanthou
Download or read book Defining Orphism written by Anthi Chrysanthou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly due to its fragmentary nature and the lack of a reconstruction. This book brings all of the major components of Orphism together in one study, in this way highlighting both parallels and divergences between them, and a wide range of non-Orphic sources referring to Orphic practices, beliefs and texts. For the complete analysis of the Orphic Rhapsodies a reconstruction of the text was necessary, which is included in this book along with a commentary and translation. This work proposes a new definition of Orphism and it can constitute a whole-encompassing and concise guide for scholars and students interested in Orphism. The reconstruction of the Orphic Rhapsodies could also contribute on shifting the understanding of this work to new perspectives as it demonstrates that the Orphic Rhapsodies was a more complex text rather than a single continuous theogonic narrative as has been approached up to this date.
Book Synopsis Emulating Alexander by : Glenn Barnett
Download or read book Emulating Alexander written by Glenn Barnett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before the events. Numerous Roman emperors led armies eastward against the Persians, seeking to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of Alexander. Some achieved successes but more often the result was ignominious defeat or death. Even as the empire declined, court propagandists and courtiers looked for flattering ways to compare their now-throne-bound emperors with Alexander. All the while there was a small segment of the Roman intelligentsia who disparaged Alexander and his misdeeds.While the Romans dreamed of conquering the Persian realm, the Persians of the Parthian and Sasanian dynasties dreamed of regaining the lands of the eastern Mediterranean snatched from their Achaemenid ancestors by Alexander. Echoes of this revanchist policy can be seen in Iran's support of Shiites in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Glenn Barnett draws comparisons between the era-long struggle of Rome and Persia with the current wars in the Middle-East where they once fought.
