Macrobius Commentary On The Dream Of Scipio

Author : Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231096287
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on the Dream of Scipio written by Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macrobius written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370887
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream of Scipio written by Iain Pears and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.

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ISBN 13 : 9780231880046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macrobius Commentary on the Dream of Scipio written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation of Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, a discourse on the nature of the cosmos that influenced classical philosophy into the late Middle Ages. Topics discussed include dream lore, Pythagorean arithmetic, the harmony of the spheres, astronomy, geography, and the immortality of the soul.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream of Scipio written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Eastwood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004161864
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordering the Heavens written by Bruce Eastwood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, the book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens.

Author : Bernardus Silvestris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513562
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris written by Bernardus Silvestris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris

Author : Iamblichus
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 9780933999725
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Arithmetic written by Iamblichus and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its is the longest work on number symbolism to survive from the ancient world, and Robin Waterfield's careful translation contains helpful footnotes, an extensive glossary, bibliography, and foreword by Keith Critchlow. Never before translated from ancient Greek, this important sourcework is indispensable for anyone intereted in Pythagorean though, Neoplatonism, or the symbolism of Numbers.

Author : Peter Barber
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278091
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.

Author : Andreas Hellerstedt
Publisher : Knowledge Communities
ISBN 13 : 9789462984448
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century written by Andreas Hellerstedt and published by Knowledge Communities. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. Systems of moral philosophy and more day-to-day moral ideas and practices in which virtue was central were incredibly important in pre-modern societies within and among diverse scholarly, literary, religious and social communities. Virtue was a cornerstone of pre-modern societies, permeating society in many different ways, and on many different levels, and it was conveyed in erudite and pedagogical texts, ritual, performance and images. The construction of virtues such as wisdom, courage, and justice helped shape identities and communities, but also served to legitimize and reinforce differences pertaining to gender, social hierarchies, and nations. On a more fundamental level, studying the history of virtue helps us understand the guiding principles of historical action. Thus, we believe that the history of virtue is central to understanding these societies, and that the history of virtue, including criticisms of virtue and virtue ethics, tells us important things about how men and women thought and acted in ages past.