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Contextualizing Classics

Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto

By: John Peradotto

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Contextualizing Classics

Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto

By: John Peradotto

This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to the evolution of theoretical methods within the discipline of classics. Taken together, the essays offer a spectrum of new approaches in the classics and their place within the profession.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847697339

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Bonfire of the Humanities

Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age

By: Bruce S. Thornton,Victor Davis Hanson,John Heath

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Bonfire of the Humanities

Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age

By: Bruce S. Thornton,Victor Davis Hanson,John Heath

With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic populism,” an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.

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Open Road Media

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1497651603

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Homer’s Traditional Art

By: John Miles Foley

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Homer’s Traditional Art

By: John Miles Foley

In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception. In Homer's Traditional Art, Foley addresses three crucially interlocking areas that lead us to a fuller appreciation of the Homeric poems. He first explores the reality of Homer as their actual author, examining historical and comparative evidence to propose that "Homer" is a legendary and anthropomorphic figure rather than a real-life author. He next presents the poetic tradition as a specialized and highly resonant language bristling with idiomatic implication. Finally, he looks at Homer's overall artistic achievement, showing that it is best evaluated via a poetics aimed specifically at works that emerge from oral tradition. Along the way, Foley offers new perspectives on such topics as characterization and personal interaction in the epics, the nature of Penelope's heroism, the implications of feasting and lament, and the problematic ending of the Odyssey. His comparative references to the South Slavic oral epic open up new vistas on Homer's language, narrative patterning, and identity. Homer's Traditional Art represents a disentangling of the interwoven strands of orality, textuality, and verbal art. It shows how we can learn to appreciate how Homer's art succeeds not in spite of the oral tradition in which it was composed but rather through its unique agency.

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Penn State Press

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0271072415

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The Ancient Roman City

By: John E. Stambaugh

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The Ancient Roman City

By: John E. Stambaugh

A synthesis of recent work in archaeology and social history, drawing on physical, literary, and documentary sources.

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JHU Press

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0801836921

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Nothing to Do with Dionysos?

Athenian Drama in Its Social Context

By: John J. Winkler

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Nothing to Do with Dionysos?

Athenian Drama in Its Social Context

By: John J. Winkler

The more we learn about the original production of tragedies and comedies in Athens the more it seems wrong even to call them plays in the modern sense of the word, ' write the editors in this collection of critically diverse innovative essays aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama.

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Princeton University Press

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0691015252

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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20

By: G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson

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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5, Books 17-20

By: G. S. Kirk,Mark W. Edwards,Richard Janko,John Bryan Hainsworth,Nicholas James Richardson

The fifth volume of the major six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad is the first to be edited by one of G.S. Kirk's four collaborators. It also consists of four introductory essays (including discussions of similes and other features of narrative style) followed by the commentary.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521312086

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The Empire That Would Not Die

The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740

By: John Haldon

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The Empire That Would Not Die

The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740

By: John Haldon

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the eastern Roman Empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. By 700 CE the empire had lost three-quarters of its territory to the Islamic caliphate. But the rugged geography of its remaining territories in Anatolia and the Aegean was strategically advantageous, preventing enemies from permanently occupying imperial towns and cities while leaving them vulnerable to Roman counterattacks. The more the empire shrank, the more it became centered around the capital of Constantinople, whose ability to withstand siege after siege proved decisive. Changes in climate also played a role, permitting shifts in agricultural production that benefitted the imperial economy. At the same time, the crisis confronting the empire forced the imperial court, the provincial ruling classes, and the church closer together. State and church together embodied a sacralized empire that held the emperor, not the patriarch, as Christendom’s symbolic head. Despite its territorial losses, the empire suffered no serious political rupture. What remained became the heartland of a medieval Christian Roman state, with a powerful political theology that predicted the emperor would eventually prevail against God’s enemies and establish Orthodox Christianity’s world dominion.

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Harvard University Press

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0674969170

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Gadamer's Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics

By: John Arthos

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Gadamer's Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics

By: John Arthos

An original account of the theory of the work of art, drawn together from the major works and occasional writings across Hans-Georg Gadamer's career.

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A&C Black

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1441135499

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Introducing Critical Thinking

By: John Benton,Philip McShane,Alessandra Drage

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Introducing Critical Thinking

By: John Benton,Philip McShane,Alessandra Drage

Reaches out to a wide audience with the introductory question: What is critical thinking? Is currently being used in Canadian and Australian high school classes and is suitable for college and university.

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Axial Publishing

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0968450377

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The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

By: John Donahue

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The Roman Community at Table During the Principate, New and Expanded Edition

By: John Donahue

An examination of eating in its public context in the Roman world

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University of Michigan Press

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0472036955

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Who Killed Homer?

The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

By: Victor Davis Hanson,John Heath

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Who Killed Homer?

The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

By: Victor Davis Hanson,John Heath

In Who Killed Homer? acclaimed classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath explain what has been sacrificed, who did it and why. Hanson and Heath argue that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, then we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459617584

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A Companion to Greek Tragedy

By: John Ferguson

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A Companion to Greek Tragedy

By: John Ferguson

This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context—important for both Athenian and modern audiences—and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature. Ferguson is sensitive to the meter and sound of Greek tragedy, and, with remarkable success, he manages to involve even the Greekless reader in an actual encounter with the Greek as poetry. He examines language and metrics in relation to each tragedian's dramatic purpose, thus elucidating the crucial dimension of technique that other handbooks, mostly the work of philologists, renounce in order to concentrate on structure and plot. The result is perceptive criticism in which the quality of Ferguson's scholarship vouches for what he sees in the plays. The book is prefaced with a general introduction to ancient Greek theatrical production, and there is a brief biographical sketch of each tragedian. Footnotes are avoided: the object of this handbook is to introduce readers to the plays as dramatic poetry, not to detail who said what about them. There is an extensive bibliography for scholars and a glossary of Greek words to assist the student with the operative moral and stylistic terms of Greek tragedy.

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University of Texas Press

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0292759703

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A Guide to Assessments That Work

By: John Hunsley,Eric J. Mash

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A Guide to Assessments That Work

By: John Hunsley,Eric J. Mash

The need for evidence-based practice in mental health services is becoming clearer by the day and, until recently, the trend of emphasizing services with supporting empirical evidence has been almost exclusively limited to a focus on treatment options. A Guide to Assessments That Work fills a void in the professional literature by addressing the critical role that assessment plays in providing evidence-based mental health services. To optimize its usefulness to readers, this volume addresses the assessment of the most commonly encountered disorders or conditions among children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and couples. Strategies and instruments for assessing mood disorders, anxiety disorders, couple distress and sexual problems, health-related problems, and many other conditions are also covered in depth. With a focus throughout on assessment instruments that are feasible, psychometrically sound, and useful for typical clinical requirements, a rating system has been designed to provide evaluations of a measure's norms, reliability, validity, and clinical utility. Standardized tables summarize this information in each chapter, providing essential information on the most scientifically sound tools available for a range of assessment needs. Using the tools provided in A Guide to Assessments That Work, readers can at a glance determine the possible suitability and value of each instrument for their own clinical purposes. This much needed resource equips readers with the knowledge necessary for conducting the best evidence-based mental health assessments currently possible.

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Oxford University Press

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0190295074

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The Constraints of Desire

The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece

By: John J. Winkler

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The Constraints of Desire

The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece

By: John J. Winkler

For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back from this narrowly framed question and puts it in the larger context of how sex and gender in ancient Greece were culturally constructed. His innovative approach uncovers the very real possibilities for female autonomy that existed in Greek society.

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Routledge

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1134975805

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War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

By: John Evans

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War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

By: John Evans

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

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1317810295

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Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents

Evidence-Based Treatments and Case Examples

By: John R. Weisz

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Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents

Evidence-Based Treatments and Case Examples

By: John R. Weisz

In this book, a clinical scientist highlights youth psychotherapies that have been tested and shown to work. Treatments for fears and anxiety, depression, attention deficits and ADHD, and conduct problems and disorder are described in detail, their conceptual basis explained, their clinical application illustrated by richly developed case examples, and their prospects for use in clinical practice examined closely. This clinical perspective is complemented by summaries and critiques of the empirical evidence on each treatment and by commentaries on what questions remain unanswered. The author's clinical and scientific experience converge to produce a uniquely valuable experience on exemplary treatments for children and adolescents.

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0521571952

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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 560-1204

By: John Haldon

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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 560-1204

By: John Haldon

Warfare, State and Society in the Byznatine World is the first comprehensive study of the warfare and the Byzantine World from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications, logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical evolution of the army, this book analyses the army in campaign and in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the Byzantine Orthodox Church.

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1135364370

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Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy

A Biography

By: John Maxwell O'Brien

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Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy

A Biography

By: John Maxwell O'Brien

Despite Alexander the Great's unprecedented accomplishments, during the last seven years of his life, this indomitable warrior became increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal, and suspicious of friends as well as enemies. What could have caused such a lamentable transformation? This biography seeks to answer that question by assessing the role of alcohol in Alexander the Great's life, using the figure of Dionysus as a symbol of its destructive effects on his psyche. The unique methodology employed in this book explores various aspects of Alexander's life while maintaining an historical framework. The exposition of the main theme is handled in such a way that the biography will appeal to general readers as well as scholars.

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1134845006

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Byzantium in the Seventh Century

The Transformation of a Culture

By: John F. Haldon

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Byzantium in the Seventh Century

The Transformation of a Culture

By: John F. Haldon

An analytical account of developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state from c. 610 to 717.

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052131917X

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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204

By: John Haldon

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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204

By: John Haldon

Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World is the first comprehensive study of warfare and the Byzantine world from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications, logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical evolution of the army, this book analyses the army in campaign and in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the Byzantine Orthodox Church. The Byzantine Empire has an enduring fascination for all those who study it, and Warfare, State and Society is a colourful study of the central importance of warfare within it.

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1000159221

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Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women

By: Nathan John Barnes

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Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women

By: Nathan John Barnes

Women were involved in every popular philosophy in the first century, and the participation of women reaches back to the Greek origins of these schools. Philosophers often taught their daughters, wives, and other friends the basic tenets of their thinking. The Isthmian games and a tolerance for independent thinking made Corinth an attractive place for philosophers to engage in dialogue and debate, further facilitating the philosophical education of women. The activity of philosophically educated women directly informs our understanding of 1 Corinthians when Paul uses concepts that also appear in popular moral philosophy. This book explores how philosophically educated women would interact with three such concepts: marriage and family, patronage, and self-sufficiency.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620325721

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The Talking Greeks

Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

By: John Heath

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The Talking Greeks

Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

By: John Heath

When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for authoritative speech which was held to separate humans from other animals, gods from humans, men from women, Greeks from non-Greeks, citizens from slaves, and the mundane from the heroic. John Heath illustrates how Homer's epics trace the development of immature young men into adults managing speech in entirely human ways and how in Aeschylus' Oresteia only human speech can disentangle man, beast, and god. Plato's Dialogues are shown to reveal the consequences of Socratically imposed silence. With its examination of the Greek focus on speech, animalization, and status, this book offers new readings of key texts and provides significant insights into the Greek approach to understanding our world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139443917

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Ms Sarah Klitenic Wear,Professor John Dillon

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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition

Despoiling the Hellenes

By: Ms Sarah Klitenic Wear,Professor John Dillon

Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably around 500 CE, and possibly connected with the circle of Severus of Antioch, Dionysius manipulates a Platonic metaphysics to describe a hierarchical universe: as with the Hellenic Platonists, he arranges the celestial and material cosmos into a series of triadic strata. These strata emanate from one unified being and contain beings that range from superior to inferior, depending on their proximity to God. Not only do all things in the hierarchy participate in God, but also all things are inter-connected, so that the lower hierarchies fully participate in the higher ones. This metaphysics lends itself to a sacramental system similar to that of the Hellenic ritual, theurgy. Theurgy allows humans to reach the divine by examining the divine as it exists in creation. Although Dionysius' metaphysics and religion are similar to that of Iamblichus and Proclus in many ways, Pseudo-Dionysius differs fundamentally in his use of an ecclesiastical cosmos, rather than that of the Platonic Timaean cosmos of the Hellenes. This book discusses the Christian Platonist's adaptation of Hellenic metaphysics, language, and religious ritual. While Dionysius clearly works within the Hellenic tradition, he innovates to integrate Hellenic and Christian thought.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477533

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Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, C. 680-850

A History

By: Leslie Brubaker,John Haldon

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Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, C. 680-850

A History

By: Leslie Brubaker,John Haldon

A major revisionist survey of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history.

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0521430933

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Scrapped

Justice and a Teen Informant

By: Lisa Peebles,John O'Brien

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Scrapped

Justice and a Teen Informant

By: Lisa Peebles,John O'Brien

Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." -Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota Winters Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen. Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the true story of Peebles' pursuit of new evidence against three new suspects and her discovery that Heidi had lived a double life: convenience store cashier and undercover informant. The sheriff's office hid the truth after her death as the real killers roamed free. Peebles became a de facto prosecutor to prove their guilt and Gary's innocence. As Heidi's family stood by the sheriff, her remains were likely secreted right under their noses - probably inside a scrapped van and shipped to a car shredder in Canada.

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Black Rose Writing

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1684337534

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Architecture for the Shroud

Relic and Ritual in Turin

By: John Beldon Scott

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Architecture for the Shroud

Relic and Ritual in Turin

By: John Beldon Scott

The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety yet today. In this amply illustrated volume, John Beldon Scott traces the history of the unique relic, focusing especially on the black-marble and gilt-bronze structure Guarino Guarini designed to house and exhibit it. A key Baroque monument, the chapel comprises many unusual architectural features, which Scott identifies and explains, particulary how the chapel's unprecedented geometry and bizarre imagery convey to the viewer the supernatural powers of the object enshrined there. Drawing on early plans and documents, he demonstrates how the architect's design mirrors the Shroud's strange history as well as political aspirations of its owners, the Dukes of Savoy. Exhibiting it ritually, the Savoy prized their relic with its godly vestige as a means to link their dynasty with divine purposes. Guarini, too, promoted this end by fashioning an illusionary world and sacred space that positioned the duke visually so that he appeared close to the Shroud during its ceremonial display. Finally, Scott describes how the additional need for an outdoor stage for the public showing of the relic to the thousands who came to Turin to see it also helped shape the urban plan of the city and its transformation into the Savoyard capital. Exploring the mystique of this enigmatic relic and investigating its architectural and urban history for the first time, Architecture for the Shroud will appeal to anyone curious about the textile, its display, and the architectural settings designed to enhance its veneration and boost the political agenda of the ruling family.

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0226743160

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Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

By: John Gould

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Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

By: John Gould

How did Greek literature and culture interact? John Gould was one of the greatest writers on Greek civilisation of his generation. The most significant of his many essays, including several previously unpublished, are revised and gathered here.

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019926581X

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Athenian Potters and Painters

Volume II

By: John H. Oakley,Olga Palagia

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Athenian Potters and Painters

Volume II

By: John H. Oakley,Olga Palagia

This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the dynamic appearance of a younger generation of scholars dealing with the subject. Subject areas range from the study of the potters and painters themselves, to shape, subject matter, chronology, export, excavation pottery, context, and the influence of Athenian vases on pottery from other regions of the Mediterranean and vice versa. Three papers in Greek.

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1782973222

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Contextualizing Classics

Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto

By: John Peradotto

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Contextualizing Classics

Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto

By: John Peradotto

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