Synesius of Cyrene

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Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520301765
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis Synesius of Cyrene by : Jay Bregman

Download or read book Synesius of Cyrene written by Jay Bregman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict of religions during the Christianization of the Greco-Roman aristocracy in Late Antiquity is typified by Synesius (ca. A.D. 365/70–414?), an old-fashioned pagan Neoplatonist who studied under Hypatia at Alexandria, yet who in A.D. 410 became the Christian bishop of Ptolemais in Libya. Before accepting, however, he openly stated his objections to certain Christian dogmas. Was he a Christian or a "baptized Neoplatonist"? The generation of Synesius saw the rapid decline of paganism. Furthermore, the Constantinople he visited (A.D. 399–402) was a Greek-Christian Rome whose elites were classically educated. He returned home an ally of the city's Orthodox Christians. He tried to reconcile Neoplatonism with Christianity, but a study of his works demonstrates that he was only partially successful. Synesius is important for our understanding of the old aristocracy in Late Antiquity. His becoming a bishop completes the picture in which we finally see the ancient world transforming itself into the medieval world. The life of Synesius, one man of Late Antiquity, may be viewed as both the recapitulation and anticipation of all the major themes of Classical and Late Antiquity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Essays and Hymns of Synesius of Cyrene

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The Essays and Hymns of Synesius of Cyrene written by Synesius (Cyrenaeus.) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters of Synesius of Cyrene

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Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis The Letters of Synesius of Cyrene by : Synesius (Cyrenensis)

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In Praise of Baldness

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ISBN 13 : 9780969230908
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Book Synopsis In Praise of Baldness by : Synesius (of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais.)

Download or read book In Praise of Baldness written by Synesius (of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520065505
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Book Synopsis Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius by : Alan Cameron

Download or read book Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius written by Alan Cameron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explodes the common view that pro- and anti-German factions dominated Byzantine politics at the turn of the century, and in so doing it rewrites the history of a brief but crucial period in early Byzantium."--Robert Kaster, author of Guardians of Language

On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination

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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161524196
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Book Synopsis On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination by : Donald A. Russell

Download or read book On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination written by Donald A. Russell and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity

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Publisher : Brill's Companions to Classica
ISBN 13 : 9789004243439
Total Pages : 512 pages
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The Philosopher Queens

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178352829X
Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book The Philosopher Queens written by Rebecca Buxton and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy – love it!' Elif Shafak Where are the women philosophers? The answer is right here. The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you’ve probably heard the names Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Locke – but what about Hypatia, Arendt, Oluwole and Young? The Philosopher Queens is a long-awaited book about the lives and works of women in philosophy by women in philosophy. This collection brings to centre stage twenty prominent women whose ideas have had a profound – but for the most part uncredited – impact on the world. You’ll learn about Ban Zhao, the first woman historian in ancient Chinese history; Angela Davis, perhaps the most iconic symbol of the American Black Power Movement; Azizah Y. al-Hibri, known for examining the intersection of Islamic law and gender equality; and many more. For anyone who has wondered where the women philosophers are, or anyone curious about the history of ideas – it's time to meet the philosopher queens.

Hypatia of Alexandria

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674437760
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Book Synopsis Hypatia of Alexandria by : Maria Dzielska

Download or read book Hypatia of Alexandria written by Maria Dzielska and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol—of the waning of classical culture and freedom of inquiry, of the rise of fanatical Christianity, or of sexual freedom. Dzielska shows us why versions of Hypatia's legend have served her champions' purposes, and how they have distorted the true story. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635708
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome written by Douglas Boin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive. Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted. The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world.

Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481183
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Book Synopsis Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt by : Bronwen Neil

Download or read book Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt written by Bronwen Neil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.

Hypatia

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190210044
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Book Synopsis Hypatia by : Edward J. Watts

Download or read book Hypatia written by Edward J. Watts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.

Early Libyan Christianity

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Publisher : IVP Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780830839438
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Early Libyan Christianity by : Thomas C. Oden

Download or read book Early Libyan Christianity written by Thomas C. Oden and published by IVP Academic. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buried for more than a millennium beneath sand and the erosions of time are the remnants of a vital, formative Christian presence in Libya. From about A.D. 68 till the Muslim conquest of A.D. 643, Libya housed a vibrant, creative Christian community that contributed to the shape of the faith even as we know it today. By the mid-190s A.D., Leptis Magna could claim favorite sons as the Roman pontiff, Victor the African, and as the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus. A rich and energetic community produced a wide variety of key players from early martyrs to great thinkers to archheretics. Tertullian, the great theologian, and Sabellius, the heretic, are relatively well known. Less well known are the martyrs Wasilla and Theodore and the great poet-philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene. Uncovering this North African tradition and offering it to a wide reading audience is the task that Tom Oden sets for himself in this fascinating tour de force. The book, originating as lectures delivered at the Islamic Da'wa University in Tripoli in 2008 and later expanded as the W. H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in 2009 at Dallas Theological Seminary, has been expanded and refined to provide additional insights and references, surveying the texts, architecture and landmarks of this important period of Christian history. It also serves as a valuable companion to Oden's earlier offerings in How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind and The African Memory of Mark.

New History

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Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 205 pages
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Book Synopsis New History by : Zosimus

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Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004375716
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium by : Bronwen Neil

Download or read book Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium written by Bronwen Neil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.

Music in Early Christian Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521376242
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis Music in Early Christian Literature by : James McKinnon

Download or read book Music in Early Christian Literature written by James McKinnon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 400 passages on music from early Christian literature.

The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism

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Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061868477
Total Pages : 620 pages
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Book Synopsis The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism by : John J. Cleary

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