Libanius Ten Mythological And Historical Declamations

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108603351
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libanius: Ten Mythological and Historical Declamations written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, almost all appearing for the first time in a modern language. In these works the declaimer impersonates such mythological or historical figures as Poseidon, Paris, Achilles, and Orestes, either in court (as prosecutor or defendant) or by trying to persuade his audience to take a course of action. The texts illustrate the sophist's eloquence and had an educational purpose in the schools, but were also delivered before adult audiences. They also put the Hellenic past on display for audiences of the Greek East in the Roman Empire. The annotated translations are accompanied by analyses of their themes, structure, and argumentation.

Author : Robert Penella
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472220942
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stock Characters Speaking written by Robert Penella and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius’s massive corpus into English and other modern languages. In this book, author Robert J. Penella translates eight of Libanius’s declamations: 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 45, 46, 47, and, in an appendix, the thirteenth-century Gregory of Cyprus’s response to Declamation 34. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction, in which Penella examines the themes, structure, and the stasis, or key issue, of the declamations. Figures who appear in the translated declamations include a parasite who has lost his patron, a man envious of his rich neighbor, a miser’s son, a poor man willing to die for his city, a rich war-hero accused of aiming at tyranny, and a convict asking for exile. Three of these declamations have appeared in German; otherwise, these translations are the first into a modern language.

Author : Menelaos Christopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110780119
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and History: Close Encounters written by Menelaos Christopoulos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.

Author : Mikael Johansson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10 written by Mikael Johansson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugenio Amato
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110401886
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation written by Eugenio Amato and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and Lupi explore social roles—their tensions and expectations—as defined through declamation. With similar emphasis on historical circumstances, Quiroga Puertas and Tomassi consider the adaptation of rhetorical material to frame contemporary realities. Schwartz draws attention to the sometimes hazy borderline between declamation and the courtroom. The relationship between laws and declamation, a topic of abiding importance, is examined in studies by Berti, Breij, and Johansson. Also with an eye to the complex interaction between laws and declamation, Pasetti offers a narratological analysis of cases of poisoning. Citti discovers the concept of natural law represented in declamatory material. While looking at a case of extreme cruelty, Huelsenbeck evaluates the nature of declamatory language, emphasizing its use as an integral instrument of performance events. Zinsmaier looks at discourse on the topic of torture in rhetorical and legal contexts.

Author : Libanius
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589833600
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libanius's Progymnasmata written by Libanius and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2008 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig S. Keener
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 144123621X
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts: An Exegetical Commentary : Volume 1 written by Craig S. Keener and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context. In this volume, the first of four, Keener introduces the book of Acts, particularly historical questions related to it, and provides detailed exegesis of its opening chapters. He utilizes an unparalleled range of ancient sources and offers a wealth of fresh insights. This magisterial commentary will be a valuable resource for New Testament professors and students, pastors, Acts scholars, and libraries.

Author : Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061863380
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia written by Gilbert Tournoy and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 38

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350255785
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Imperial Age written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse in ancient Greece: the epic tradition and the Sophists. The contributors show how throughout antiquity the epic tradition proved a flexible instrument to navigate new political, cultural, and philosophical contexts. The Sophists, both in the Classical and the Imperial age, continuously reconfigured the value of epic poetry according to the circumstances: using epic myths allowed the Sophists to present themselves as the heirs of traditional education, but at the same time this tradition was reshaped to encapsulate new questions that were central to the Sophists' intellectual agenda. This volume is structured chronologically, encompassing the ancient world from the Classical Age through the first two centuries AD. The first chapters, on the First Sophistic, discuss pivotal works such as Gorgias' Encomium of Helen and Apology of Palamedes, Alcidamas' Odysseus or Against the Treachery of Palamedes, and Antisthenes' pair of speeches Ajax and Odysseus, as well as a range of passages from Plato and other authors. The volume then moves on to discuss some of the major works of literature from the Second Sophistic dealing with the epic tradition. These include Lucian's Judgement of the Goddesses and Dio Chrysostom's orations 11 and 20, as well as Philostratus' Heroicus and Imagines.

Author : Maarten De Pourcq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501551
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Literary History written by Maarten De Pourcq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining the mobility and travel of literature both within and out of Europe, this guide offers an introduction to the dynamics of major literary networks, international literary networks, publication cultures and debates, and the cultural history of 'Europe' as a region as well as a concept.