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Pity Transformed

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472502310
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Pity Transformed written by David Konstan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder how the Greeks and Romans were both like and unlike us in this fundamental area of cultural sensibility.

Pity Transformed

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472502329
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Pity Transformed written by David Konstan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder how the Greeks and Romans were both like and unlike us in this fundamental area of cultural sensibility.

Pity and Power in Ancient Athens

Author : Rachel Hall Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521845526
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Pity and Power in Ancient Athens written by Rachel Hall Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic-self-image. Embracing the concepts of democracy and freedom, they proudly pitted themselves against tyranny and oppression, but in practice they were capable of being tyrannical. Pity and Power in Ancient Athens argues that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling questions about the alleviation and infliction of suffering, and pity emerged as a topic in Atheninan culture at this time.

An Early History of Compassion

Author : Françoise Mirguet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108509576
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book An Early History of Compassion written by Françoise Mirguet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on the texts, they were a spontaneous feeling, a practice, a virtue, or a precept of the Mosaic law. The requirement to feel for those who suffer sustained the identity of the Jewish minority, both creating continuity with its traditions and emulating dominant discourses. Mirguet's book will be of interest to scholars of early Judaism and Christianity for its sensitivity to the role of feelings and imagination in the shaping of identity. An important contribution to the history of emotions, it explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism. It also contributes to understanding how compassion has come to be so highly valued in Western cultures.

Studia Patristica. Volume XLIV

Author : Jane Baun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042923706
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Studia Patristica. Volume XLIV written by Jane Baun and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2007 (see also Studia Patristica 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

The Transformation

Author : John Herman Wishar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation written by John Herman Wishar and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Supplication

Author : Fred Naiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198040466
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Supplication written by Fred Naiden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Despite the importance of supplication, it has received little attention, and no previous study has explored so many aspects of the practice. Naiden investigates the varied gestures made by the supplicants, the types of requests they make, the arguments used in defense of their requests, and the role of the supplicandus, who evaluates and decides whether to fulfill the requests. Varied and abundant sources invite comparison between the societies of Greece and Rome and also among literary genres. Additionally, Naiden formulates an analysis of the ritual in its legal and political contexts. In constructing this rich and thorough study, Naiden considered over 800 acts of supplication from Greek, Hebrew, and Roman literature, art, and scientific sources. 30 illustrations and a map of the relevant locations accompany the text.

Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112118457412 and Others

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112118457412 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hardwicke's Science-gossip

Author : Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Hardwicke's Science-gossip written by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science-gossip

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science-gossip written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hardwicke's Science-gossip

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Hardwicke's Science-gossip written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8

Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198865724
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8 written by Robert Pasnau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Ancient Forgiveness

Author : Charles L. Griswold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521119480
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Forgiveness written by Charles L. Griswold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.

Unmanly Men

Author : Brittany E. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199325006
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Unmanly Men written by Brittany E. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Testament scholars typically assume that the men who pervade the pages of Luke's two volumes are models of an implied "manliness." Scholars rarely question how Lukan men measure up to ancient masculine mores, even though masculinity is increasingly becoming a topic of inquiry in the field of New Testament and its related disciplines. Drawing especially from gender-critical work in classics, Brittany Wilson addresses this lacuna by examining key male characters in Luke-Acts in relation to constructions of masculinity in the Greco-Roman world. Of all Luke's male characters, Wilson maintains that four in particular problematize elite masculine norms: namely, Zechariah (the father of John the Baptist), the Ethiopian eunuch, Paul, and, above all, Jesus. She further explains that these men do not protect their bodily boundaries nor do they embody corporeal control, two interrelated male gender norms. Indeed, Zechariah loses his ability to speak, the Ethiopian eunuch is castrated, Paul loses his ability to see, and Jesus is put to death on the cross. With these bodily "violations," Wilson argues, Luke points to the all-powerful nature of God and in the process reconfigures--or refigures--men's own claims to power. Luke, however, not only refigures the so-called prerogative of male power, but he refigures the parameters of power itself. According to Luke, God provides an alternative construal of power in the figure of Jesus and thus redefines what it means to be masculine. Thus, for Luke, "real" men look manifestly unmanly. Wilson's findings in Unmanly Men will shatter long-held assumptions in scholarly circles and beyond about gendered interpretations of the New Testament, and how they can be used to understand the roles of the Bible's key characters.

Daisy: The Autobiography of a Cat

Author : Miranda Eliot Swan
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465506799
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Daisy: The Autobiography of a Cat written by Miranda Eliot Swan and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity

Author : Ralph Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004192336
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity written by Ralph Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. This book demonstrates from a wide range of perspectives how such behavior is anchored and promoted in classical antiquity by a varied and conceptually rich discourse of ‘valuing others’.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199724105
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature written by Richard Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other.