The Eternal Hermes

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Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1609257367
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Eternal Hermes by : Antoine Faivre

Download or read book The Eternal Hermes written by Antoine Faivre and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Western esotericism pioneer, a “work of lucid scholarship [that reveals] the full range of Hermes’ innumerable manifestations in European history” (Parabola). Hermes—the fascinating, mercurial messenger of the gods, eloquent revealer of hidden wisdom, and guardian of occult knowledge—has played a central role in the development of esotericism in the West. Drawing upon many rare books and manuscripts, this highly illustrated work explores the question of where Hermes Trismegistus came from, how he came to be a patron of the esoteric traditions, and how the figure of Hermes has remained lively and inspiring to our own day. “Great erudition blended with a highly refined metaphysical sensibility brings the great Hermes to life and allows this powerful psychospiritual archetype to speak once again [and perhaps even play a few much-needed tricks on us].” —Jacob Needleman, author of The Heart of Philosophy “Faivre’s remarkable achievement in this single volume is to combine the historical richness of the Hermetic tradition with its relevance to understanding the circumambulations of the psyche today as it pursues its spiritual quest.” —June Singer, author of Boundaries of the Soul “This book is an impressive and compelling contribution to the puzzling question of both the source and perdurance of Hermes in his variety of shape-shifting guises. From Alexandria to Amsterdam, Athens to America, this thrice-great Hermes keeps showing up, perhaps even more than in antiquity!” —David L. Miller, author of The New Polytheism

The Framing of Socrates

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Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515073134
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)

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Book Synopsis The Framing of Socrates by : Vivienne Gray

Download or read book The Framing of Socrates written by Vivienne Gray and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenophon's Memorabilia is a principal source for the image of Socrates. Xenophon's argument about Socrates is here examined in its entirety for the first time in English as a product of his personal knowledge of Socrates, his use of rhetoric to persuade his audience, and of literary traditions which had already set in place the 'frame' for the acceptable image of the wise man. Xenophon innovates within these traditions to present a Socrates who innovated in the traditions of philosophy. The work is proven to have a unified and sustained rhetorical argument. It imitates the philosophical process that it attributes to Socrates. Xenophon's literary techniques and artistry, the nature of rhetoric and the literary traditions concerning the wise man are illuminated. Comparison with Plato is not a major focus, but the investigation increases awareness of the complexity of the 'Socratic problem'.

Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083119
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury by : John F. Miller

Download or read book Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury written by John F. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, but also extend to commerce, lucre, and theft, as well as rhetoric and practical jokes. In another guise, he plays the role of mediator between all realms of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the netherworld. Pursuing this elusive divinity requires a truly multidisciplinary approach, reflecting his prismatic nature, and the twenty contributions to this volume draw on a wide range of fields to achieve this, from Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, and drama), epigraphy, cult, and religion, to vase painting and sculpture. In offering an overview of the myriad aspects of Hermes/Mercury-including his origins, patronage of the gymnasium, and relation to other trickster figures-the volume attempts to track the god's footprints across the many domains in which he partakes. Moreover, in keeping with his deep connection to exchange, commerce, and dialogue, it aims to exemplify and further encourage discourse between Latinists and Hellenists, as well as between scholars of literary and material cultures.

National Union Catalog

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Catalogue of Casts

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Total Pages : 410 pages
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of Casts by : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Download or read book Catalogue of Casts written by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes"

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110259702
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" by : Athanassios Vergados

Download or read book The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" written by Athanassios Vergados and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.

The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110294885
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene by : Marek Winiarczyk

Download or read book The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene written by Marek Winiarczyk and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods (Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world. Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus’ religious views were rooted in old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might have been preserved. The translation of Ennius’ Euhemerus sive Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish literature.

The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370846
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus by : Christian H. Bull

Download or read book The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus written by Christian H. Bull and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus , Christian H. Bull argues that the actual authors behind the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus were Hellenized Egyptian priests in charge of small groups practicing spiritual exercises, initiatory rituals, and devotional hymns.

First Person Futures in Pindar

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Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515075640
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Book Synopsis First Person Futures in Pindar by : Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Download or read book First Person Futures in Pindar written by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about passages where Pindar uses the future tense with reference to himself or to his song. It addresses the question as to exactly what the function is of the future tense in those passages. This is a vexed problem, which has played a major role in Pindaric criticism for the last decades and which has recently gained relevance for the interpretation of other authors as well. This book offers a detailed examination of all the relevant passages in Pindar, as well as a generous amount of examples from other authors. It takes a firm stand against the communis opinio that first person futures in Pindar merely express a present intention: the so-called "encomiastic" or "performative" future. It demonstrates that the reference to a future moment is relevant in every single instance of a future verb in Pindar and concludes that there is no such thing as an "encomiastic" future. Inhalt: Futures with a text internal reference - Futures referring to a later moment in the ode - "Fictional" futures - Generic futures - Futures with a specific text external reference - The case of Olympian XI - First person futures in Theocritus' second Idyll & magical texts. (Franz Steiner 1999)

The National Union Catalogs, 1963-

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalogs, 1963- written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

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Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849674819
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Book Synopsis Thrice-Greatest Hermes by : G. R. S. Mead

Download or read book Thrice-Greatest Hermes written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1906 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the edition including all three books. The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars. G. R. S. Mead has issued a translation of the whole body of extant literature, with extended prolegomena, commentary, etc. There is a wide difference of opinion as to the date at which this literature was produced. Mead believes that some of the extant portions of it are at least as early as the earliest Christian writings, while von Christ assigns them to the third Christian century, and thinks that they show the influence of neo-Platonism. To affirm that they influenced New Testament usage would be hazardous, but they perhaps throw some light on the direction in which thought was moving in New Testament times.

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801445460
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus by : Florian Ebeling

Download or read book The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus written by Florian Ebeling and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes, tracing their influence on Western thought from the ancient world to the present.

The Roman Revolution

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191585645
Total Pages : 580 pages
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Book Synopsis The Roman Revolution by : Ronald Syme

Download or read book The Roman Revolution written by Ronald Syme and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1963-03-26 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.

The Art of Praxiteles

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Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 8882652955
Total Pages : 347 pages
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Book Synopsis The Art of Praxiteles by : Antonio Corso

Download or read book The Art of Praxiteles written by Antonio Corso and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2004 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praxiteles is one of the most famous sculptors from ancient Greece. This study looks at both his personal background and the activities of his workshop. Chapters are devoted to placing Praxiteles in the artistic context of the period, alongside his rivals, before Corso examines his birth, family, early life and education. Subsequent chapters look at the work of Praxiteles in the workshop of Cephisodotus the Elder in the late 4th century and the art he created then, before turning to Praxiteles' own workshop and the now famous collection of works that he produced: The kidnapping of Persephone, Persephone descending to the Underworld, The Caryatids, the Maenads, and the bronze statues of Dionysus and Eros, to name just a few.

A History of Greek Philosophy: (1969) : The fifth-century enlightenment

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Total Pages : 568 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Greek Philosophy: (1969) : The fifth-century enlightenment by : William Keith Chambers Guthrie

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Pagan Regeneration

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357648
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis Pagan Regeneration by : Harold R Willoughby

Download or read book Pagan Regeneration written by Harold R Willoughby and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: pagan piety in the Graeco-Roman world; greater mysteries at Eleusis; Dionysian excesses; Orphic reform; regenerative rites of the great mother; death & rebirth in Mithraism; Isiac initiation; new birth experience in Hermeticism; mysticism of Philo; social significance of mystery initiation.

Greek Medicine

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136782192
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek Medicine by : James Longrigg

Download or read book Greek Medicine written by James Longrigg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.