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Author : Eliza Gregory Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Delphic Maxims in Literature written by Eliza Gregory Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliza Gregory Wilkins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656971589
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The Delphic Maxims in Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Eliza Gregory Wilkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Delphic Maxims in Literature It is obvious that the entire field of literature down the ages is too wide for even a superficial scanning, and conse quently whole realms of knowledge, such as those of science and history, have lain Virtually untouched; nor have the drama and the novel received more than a partial scrutiny. It is chief ly from poetry other than drama, from essays, and from philo sophical and ecclesiastical writings that the passages herein quoted have been gleaned. Doubtless many a passage has been overlooked - some, perhaps, more pertinent than those to which the book calls attention; although it is probable that its main premises would not be affected by any such further discoveries. Moreover, it may appear that natural ramifica tions of thought extending from a number of the passages under consideration have been passed by too lightly, but it has seemed well to keep the treatment within very limited bounds. The notes at the end of the book contain, as will be seen, sun dry material, including such bibliographical information as the presentation demands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Eliza Gregory Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Delphic Maxims in Literature written by Eliza Gregory Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliza Gregory 1877- Wilkins
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014758538
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (585 download)
Download or read book The Delphic Maxims in Literature written by Eliza Gregory 1877- Wilkins and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederic Will
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004657487
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Generic Demands of Greek Literature written by Frederic Will and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004624295
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Robert Henryson written by Douglas Gray and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allyson Szabo
Publisher : Allyson Szabo
ISBN 13 : 1438239769
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Longing for Wisdom written by Allyson Szabo and published by Allyson Szabo. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know yourself. Nothing in excess. Give a pledge and ruin is near. These are the words inscribed on a stele just outside the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Stunning in their simplicity, these Maxims have survived the test of time. Even today, they cause the reader to pause and think about what such short, poignant phrases mean. For those who study Hellenic Polytheism, either in historical or modern religious context, the Delphic Maxims are of great import because they hold a key to understanding early Greek thought. Delving into both the history and the current application of 34 of the Maxims to the creation of personal ethics and morals, Allyson Szabo provides us with a path to personal growth and understanding of the world around us.
Author : Inge Leimberg
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470013
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book 'What May Words Say . . . ?' written by Inge Leimberg and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What may words say_?' A Reading of The Merchant of Venice contains, in a form resembling a running commentary, a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's words in their philological, historical, and philosophical contexts. What the words say is that the play is dominated by the three Delphic maxims, Know thyself, Nothing too much, and Give surety and harm is at hand. Within the intellectual and ethical compass of these tenets the two-stranded action of the play is developed, and the question why Shakespeare added the story of the caskets to the story of the bond is answered by the words law and choice, which are as closely connected semantically as the two stories are interrelated in the dramatic structure. The self-knowledge achieved in the musical cadence of the play is everyone's seeing God's image in the other person, and the law finally chosen is forgiveness.
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039117529
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Greek Wisdom Literature and the Middle Ages written by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 13th-century Toledo, King Alfonso the Wise fostered the publication of Castilian translations of certain Arabic works that had in turn been translated from Greek and Pehlvi. In this book, which is the revised English version of the Spanish original published under the title of Modelos griegos de la sabiduría castellana y europea, the author studies four of these Castilian translations - the Libro de los Buenos Proverbios, Poridad de las Poridades or Secreto de secretos, Bocados de Oro and Historia de la Donzella Teodor - works of sapiential literature that had an enormous influence in all of Europe. Their Arabic models had been translated from Greek in Bagdad at the instigation of the great caliphs of the 9th century and also in the Fatamid court at Cairo in the 11th century. The traditional view is that this literature is simply of oriental origin, but the author believes that the models were Greek Byzantine works discovered by the Arabs in Syria and Egypt in the 7th and 8th centuries. Their true origin is to be found in the Greek sapiential literature that developed around the figures of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Alexander in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine schools of philosophy; its influence can frequently be found reflected in authors of Christian literature. A detailed study of themes, vocabulary and expressions in the works themselves confirms these origins.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521090343
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book On the E at Delphi written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch (c. AD 46 - AD 120), later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, (ΛΟύΚΙΟς ΜέΣΤΡΙΟς ΠΛΟύΤΑΡΧΟς) was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers.Plutarch spent the last thirty years of his life serving as a priest in Delphi. He thus connected part of his literary work with the sanctuary of Apollo, the processes of oracle-giving and the personalities who lived or traveled there. One of his most important works is the "Why Pythia does not give oracles in verse" (Moralia 11) ( "ΠΕΡὶ ΤΟῦ Μὴ ΧΡᾶΝ ἔΜΜΕΤΡΑ ΝῦΝ ΤὴΝ ΠΥ&thΗίΑΝ"). Even more important is the dialogue "On the E in Delphi" ("ΠΕΡὶ ΤΟῦ Εἶ ΤΟῦ ἐΝ ΔΕΛΦΟῖς"), which features Ammonius, a Platonic philosopher and teacher of Plutarch, and Lambrias, Plutarch's brother. According to Ammonius, the letter E written on the temple of Apollo in Delphi originated from the following fact: the wise men of antiquity, whose maxims were also written on the walls of the vestibule of the temple, were not seven but actually five: Chilon, Solon, Thales, Bias and Pittakos. However, the tyrants Cleobulos and Periandros used their political power in order to be incorporated in the list. Thus, the E, which corresponds to number 5, constituted an acknowledgment that the Delphic maxims actually originated from the five real wise men. The portrait of a philosopher exhibited at the exit of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, dating to the 2nd century AD, had been in the past identified with Plutarch. The man, although bearded, is depicted at a relatively young age. His hair and beard are rendered in coarse volumes and thin incisions. The gaze is deep, due to the heavy eyelids and the incised pupils. The portrait is no longer thought to represent Plutarch. Next to this portrait stands a fragmentary hermaic stele, bearing a portrait probably of the author from Chaeronea and priest in Delphi. Its inscription, however, reads: ΔΕΛΦΟὶ ΧΑΙΡΩΝΕῦΣΙΝ ὁΜΟῦ ΠΛΟύΤΑΡΧΟΝ ἔ&thΗΗΚΑΝ | ΤΟῖς ἈΜΦΙΚΤΥόΝΩΝ ΔόΓΜΑΣΙ ΠΕΙ&thΗόΜΕΝΟΙ. (Syll.3 843=CID 4, no. 151) The citizens of Delphi and Chaeronea dedicated this to Plutarch together, following the precepts of the Amphictyony.
Author : Andrew M. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004076747
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (767 download)
Download or read book From Delos to Delphi written by Andrew M. Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai''.
Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428187
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion written by Douglas Hedley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with, German Idealism. Moreover, the principal impulse behind his engagement with that philosophy is traced to the more immediate context of English Unitarian-Trinitarian controversy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book re-establishes Coleridge as a philosopher of religion and as a vital source for contemporary theological reflection.
Author : Drew Griffith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566279
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Theatre of Apollo written by Drew Griffith and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By imaginatively recreating the play's original staging and debunking the interpretations of various critics, including Aristotle, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, E.R. Dodds, Frederick Ahl, and John Peradotto, Griffith shows that Apollo is a constant, powerful presence throughout the play. He contends that although we can sympathize with Oedipus because of his sufferings, he is still morally responsible for murdering his father and sleeping with his mother. Apollo is therefore not indifferent and his actions are not unjust. Griffith focuses on Apollo's commandment "know thyself," a commandment Oedipus belatedly and tragically fulfils, to stress both the need for self-understanding in the study of ancient literature and the usefulness of ancient literature in achieving self-understanding.
Author : Sachiko Kusukawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521473470
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of Natural Philosophy written by Sachiko Kusukawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural philosophy in which Melanchthon wished to demonstrate God's Providential design in the physical world. Rather than dichotomizing or synthesizing the two distinct areas of 'science' and 'religion', Kusukawa advocates the need to look at 'Natural philosophy' as a discipline quite different from either 'modern science' or 'religion': a contextual assessment of the implication of the Lutheran Reformation on university education, particularly on natural philosophy.
Author : Stanley W. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300147339
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Care of the Psyche written by Stanley W. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a distinguished historian of medicine surveys the basic elements that have constituted psychological healing over the centuries. Dr. Stanley W. Jackson shows that healing practices, whether they come from the worlds of medicine, religion, or philosophy, share certain elements that transcend space and time.Drawing on medical writings from classical Greece and Rome to the present, as well as on philosophical and religious writings, Dr. Jackson shows that the basic ingredients of psychological healing-which have survived changes of name, the fall of their theoretical contexts, and the waning of social support in different historical eras-are essential factors in our modern psychotherapies and in healing contexts in general.
Author : James R. Harrison
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161546156
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit written by James R. Harrison and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, James R. Harrison compares the modern cult of celebrity to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial society. He shows how Paul's ethic of humility, based upon the crucified Christ, stands out in a world obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency." --
Author : Nigel Tubbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317753887
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book God, Education, and Modern Metaphysics written by Nigel Tubbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western tradition has long held the view that while it is possible to know that God exists, it nevertheless remains impossible to know what God is. The ineffability of the monotheistic God extends to each of the Abrahamic faiths. In this volume, Tubbs considers Aristotle’s logic of mastery and questions the assumptions upon which God’s ineffability rests. Part I explores the tensions between the philosophical definition of the One as "thought thinking itself" (the Aristotelian concept of noesis noeseos) and the educational vocation of the individual as "know thyself" (gnothi seuton). Identifying vulnerabilities in the logic of mastery, Tubbs puts forth an original logic of education, which he calls modern metaphysics, or a logic of learning and education. Part II explores this new educational logic of the divine as a "logic of tears," as a "dreadful religious teacher," and as a way to cohere the three Abrahamic faiths in an educational concept of monotheism.
