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Author : Christopher Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Lucian and His Influence in Europe written by Christopher Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lucian and His Influence in Europe written by Christopher Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleni Bozia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633822
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Lucian and His Roman Voices written by Eleni Bozia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman citizen, was affected by the socio-political climate of his time, reacted to it, and how he ‘corresponded’ with the Roman intelligentsia. In the process, this unique volume raises questions such as: What did the title ‘Roman citizen’ mean to native Romans and to others? How were language and literature politicized, and how did they become a means of social propaganda? This study reveals Lucian’s recondite historical and authorial personas and the ways in which his literary activity portrayed second-century reality from the perspectives of the Romans, Greeks, pagans, Christians, and citizens of the Roman Empire
Author : Lavinia Stan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199714126
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe written by Lavinia Stan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries. Contrary to widespread theories of increasing secularization, Stan and Turcescu argue that in most of these countries, the populations have shown themselves to remain religious even as they embrace modernization and democratization. Church-state relations in the new EU member states can be seen in political representation for church leaders, governmental subsidies, registration of religions by the state, and religious instruction in public schools. Stan and Turcescu outline three major models: the Czech church-state separation model, in which religion is private and the government secular; the pluralist model of Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia, which views society as a group of complementary but autonomous spheres - for example, education, the family, and religion - each of which is worthy of recognition and support from the state; and the dominant religion model that exists in Poland, Romania, Estonia, and Lithuania, in which the government maintains informal ties to the religious majority. Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe offers critical tools for understanding church-state relations in an increasingly modern and democratic Eastern Europe.
Author : David Marsh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108466
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Lucian and the Latins written by David Marsh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Lucian's influence on Renaissance writers
Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891037
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Romania written by Lucian Boia and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture, history, language, politics and ethnic identity. Boia introduces us to the heroes and myths of Romanian history, and provides an enlightening account of the history of Romanian Communism. He shows how modernization and the influence of the West have divided the nation - town versus country, nationalists versus pro-European factions, the elite versus the masses - and argues that Romania today is in chronic difficulty as it tries to fix its identity and envision a future for itself. The book concludes with a tour of Bucharest, whose houses, streets and public monuments embody Romania's traditional values and contemporary contradictions.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398031
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Building the Canon through the Classics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) explores the multiple facets of the formation of the literary canon in Renaissance Italy through the analysis of its complex relationship with the Classics.
Author : R. Bracht Branham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520921984
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Cynics written by R. Bracht Branham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present. Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarly interest in recent years, thanks to the work of Sloterdijk, Foucault, and Bakhtin, among others. The contributors to this volume—classicists, comparatists, and philosophers—draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. The volume also includes an introduction, appendices, and an annotated bibliography, making it a valuable resource for a broad audience.
Author : Oliver James Noble Wood
Publisher : Oxford Modern Languages & Lite
ISBN 13 : 0198707355
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book A Tale Blazed Through Heaven written by Oliver James Noble Wood and published by Oxford Modern Languages & Lite. This book was released on 2014 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters that comprise this study assess how poets and painters breathed new life into the tale inherited from Homer, Ovid, and others, examining some of the ways in which the story of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan was disguised, developed, expanded, mocked, combined with or played off against different subjects, or otherwise modified in order to pique the interest of successive generations of readers and viewers. Each chapter discusses what particular changes and shifts in emphasis reveal about the tale itself, specific renderings, the aims and intentions of individual poets and painters, and the wider context of the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Spain. Discussing a range of poems by both canonical (Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Gongora, Lope de Vega, etc.) and less well-known writers (Juan de la Cueva, Alonso de Castillo Solorzano, Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina, etc.), and culminating in detailed examination of select mythological works by Philip IV's court painter, Diego Velazquez, this book sheds light on questions relating to aspects of classical reception in the Renaissance, the rise of specific poetic styles (epic, mock-epic, burlesque, etc.), the interplay between the sister arts of poetry and painting, and the continual process of imitation and invention that was one of the defining features of the Spanish Golden Age.
Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431668
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Noveland the Frontiers of Genre written by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26, 2008. The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre reflects entirely the spirit and the general theme of the Conference, and is intended to convey the idea that both the novel as a literary form and scholarship on the ancient novel tend to mature and advance by crossing boundaries that older forms regarded as uncrossable. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kinds and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the novel's canon. The essays explore a wide variety of text, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the frontiers of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity". (from the preface)
Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079330
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Reading Fiction with Lucian written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.
Author : Erika Rummel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802056535
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Erasmus as a Translator of the Classics written by Erika Rummel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus was concerned not only with the mechanics of conveying the factual contents and literary qualities of the original, but also with the applicability of its moral content to Christian philosophy.
Author : Russell Jacoby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231128959
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Picture Imperfect written by Russell Jacoby and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect Utopianism suffers from an image problem: A recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's Mein Kampf and a Nazi concentration camp. Many observers judge utopians and their sympathizers as foolhardy dreamers at best and murderous totalitarians at worst. However, as noted social critic and historian Russell Jacoby argues in this salient, polemical, and innovative work, not only has utopianism been unfairly characterized, a return to an iconoclastic utopian spirit is vital for today's society. Shaped by the works of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, and other predominantly Jewish thinkers, iconoclastic utopianism revives society's dormant political imagination and offers hope for a better future. Writing against the grain of history, Jacoby reexamines the anti-utopian mindset and identifies how utopian thought came to be regarded with such suspicion. He challenges standard readings of such anti-utopian classics as 1984 and Brave New World and offers stinging critiques of the influential liberal and anti-utopian theorists Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Karl Popper. He argues that these thinkers mistakenly equate utopianism with totalitarianism. The reputation of utopian thought has also suffered from the failures of, what Jacoby terms, the blueprint utopian tradition and its oppressive emphasis on detailing all aspects of society and providing fantastic images of the future. In contrast, the iconoclastic utopians, like those who follow God's prohibition against graven images, resist both the blueprinters' obsession with detail and the modern seduction of images. Jacoby suggests that by learning from the hopeful spirit of iconoclastic utopians and their willingness to accept new possibilities for society, we open ourselves to new and more imaginative ideas of the future.
Author : George McClure
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470270
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe written by George McClure and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical tradition -- Renaissance antihero: Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the novel -- Momus and the Reformation -- The execution of Giordano Bruno -- Milton's Lucifer -- God of modern criticks -- Momus and modernism
Author : Lawrence Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490249
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature written by Lawrence Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture.
Author : David Mazella
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926155
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Cynicism written by David Mazella and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asks: how did ancient Cynic philosophy come to provide a name for its modern, unphilosophical counterpart, and what events caused such a dramatic reversal of cynicism's former meanings? This work traces the concept of cynicism from its origins as a philosophical way of life in Greek antiquity.
Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472133349
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Lucian’s Laughing Gods written by Inger NI Kuin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata
