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Posidonius: Volume 3, The Translation of the Fragments

Author : Posidonius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622585
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Posidonius: Volume 3, The Translation of the Fragments written by Posidonius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posidonius was a major intellectual figure of the Hellenistic world whose interests and contribution spread over the whole intellectual field: philosophy, history, the sciences. His writings are of interest not only to philosophers and classicists, but also to historians and history of science. His work survives only in fragments. The text of these fragments, collected and edited by L. Edelstein and I. G. Kidd, was published in 1972 (Vol. I The Fragments), with a second edition in 1989. This collection, along with Vol. II The Commentary by I.G. Kidd (1988), has become established as the definitive modern edition. However, many of the fragments are extremely difficult to translate, and this volume of translations has been compiled to make this interesting material more easily accessible to scholars and students. The translations are accompanied by contextual introductions and explanatory notes where necessary. An Introduction summarises the importance of Posidonius and his work.

Posidonius: Volume 3, The Translation of the Fragments

Author : Posidonius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604413
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book Posidonius: Volume 3, The Translation of the Fragments written by Posidonius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posidonius was a major intellectual figure of the Hellenistic world whose interests and contribution spread over the whole intellectual field: philosophy, history, the sciences. His writings are of interest not only to philosophers and classicists, but also to historians and history of science. His work survives only in fragments. The text of these fragments, collected and edited by L. Edelstein and I. G. Kidd, was published in 1972 (Vol. I The Fragments), with a second edition in 1989. This collection, along with Vol. II The Commentary by I.G. Kidd (1988), has become established as the definitive modern edition. However, many of the fragments are extremely difficult to translate, and this volume of translations has been compiled to make this interesting material more easily accessible to scholars and students. The translations are accompanied by contextual introductions and explanatory notes where necessary. An Introduction summarises the importance of Posidonius and his work.

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Posidonius: The translation of the fragments

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Posidonius

Author : Posidonius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604253
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2

Author : Clive Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135500762
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Polybius and Roman Imperialism

Author : Donald Walter Baronowski
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519876
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Polybius and Roman Imperialism written by Donald Walter Baronowski and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polybius and Roman Imperialism explores in depth the complexity of the Greek historian Polybius' views on the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also evinced detachment from the ruling power. This detachment came in different forms: personal, cultural, patriotic and cultural. In general, he believed that the Romans cited morally acceptable pretexts for declaring war, observed justice in other aspects of foreign policy, and practised beneficence and moderation in their dealings with subject nations. Even with less than half of the original text surviving, the author reveals Polybius' personality and political philosophy.

Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition

Author : G. R. Boys-Stones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528862
Total Pages : 316 pages
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The Hellenistic Age

Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588367061
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Hellenistic Age written by Peter Green and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment of Rome as the first Mediterranean superpower. The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, from the days of Philip and Alexander of Macedon to the death of Cleopatra and the final triumph of Caesar’s heir, the young Augustus. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization of an immense swath of the known world–from Egypt to India–by Alexander’s conquests; the lengthy and chaotic partition of this empire by rival Macedonian marshals after Alexander’s death; the decline of the polis (city state) as the predominant political institution; and, finally, Rome’s moment of transition from republican to imperial rule. Predictably, this is a story of war and power-politics, and of the developing fortunes of art, science, and statecraft in the areas where Alexander’s coming disseminated Hellenic culture. It is a rich narrative tapestry of warlords, libertines, philosophers, courtesans and courtiers, dramatists, historians, scientists, merchants, mercenaries, and provocateurs of every stripe, spun by an accomplished classicist with an uncanny knack for infusing life into the distant past, and applying fresh insights that make ancient history seem alarmingly relevant to our own times. To consider the three centuries prior to the dawn of the common era in a single short volume demands a scholar with a great command of both subject and narrative line. The Hellenistic Age is that rare book that manages to coalesce a broad spectrum of events, persons, and themes into one brief, indispensable, and amazingly accessible survey.

Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004677461
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Embodiments of Will

Author : Michael Frampton
Publisher : Michael Frampton
ISBN 13 : 363908294X
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Classifying Christians

Author : Todd S. Berzon
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383176
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Classifying Christians written by Todd S. Berzon and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.

Selected Letters

Author : Seneca
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613762
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters written by Seneca and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!' The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. Seneca advises his friend on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. The letters include literary critical discussions, moral exhortation, exemplary heroes and episodes from Roman history, and a lurid picture of contemporary luxury. We learn about Seneca's household and estates and about life in the time of Nero; the topic of death is never far away. This readable new translation is the largest selection of Seneca's letters currently available. Accompanied by an invaluable introduction and notes, it opens a window on to Seneca's world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Selected Letters

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199533210
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca's personal and political life in the time of Nero.

Hyperboreans

Author : Timothy P. Bridgman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135879788
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Encyclopedia of European Peoples

Author : Carl Waldman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129181
Total Pages : 975 pages
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A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3

Author : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567692957
Total Pages : 640 pages
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