Practical Ethics For Roman Gentlemen

Author : Clive Skidmore
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen written by Clive Skidmore and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of the work of Valerius Maximus during the Middle Ages and Renaissance was due to its value as a source of moral exhortation and guidance: the work was as relevant to the readers of those times as it had been to Valerius' contemporaries in the first century AD. Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen demonstrates that the purpose of Valerius' work was to promote a system of morality based upon historical precedent that was both traditional and authoritative to the educated classes for whom he wrote. Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen offers a re-definition of the purpose of Valerius' work and totally new conclusions about its predecessors, form and audience. The book is not confined to an examination of Valerius' work in isolation, but also examines earlier forms of exemplary literature, questions of how Roman literature was communicated to its audience, and presents an entirely new theory on the identity of Valerius Maximus the author.

Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839432847
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Charity written by Jutta Gisela Sperling and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.

Author : Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040604
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome written by Rebecca Langlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--

Author : Bruce W. Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802849709
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. Henry T. Nguyen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161496660
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Identity in Corinth written by V. Henry T. Nguyen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D) -- University of Aberdeen, 2007.

Author : Paul Nathanson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583807
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Replacing Misandry written by Paul Nathanson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first three volumes of this series, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young challenge theories about patriarchy that ideological forms of feminism have promoted. In this volume, they argue that we must replace those misandric theories with one that takes seriously the needs and problems of boys and men no less than those of girls and women; at the same time, they add, we must maintain the reforms that egalitarian forms of feminism have promoted. With both factors in mind, they trace the history of men – that is, culturally organized perceptions of the male body and its masculine functions – over the past ten thousand years. They show how these perceptions have evolved in connection with a series of technological and cultural revolutions: horticultural, agricultural, industrial, military, and now reproductive. This new approach sets the stage for understanding a profound and growing problem that our society must face: the increasing inability of boys and men to create or sustain a healthy collective identity. The authors define this as an identity that is distinctive, necessary, and therefore publicly valued. Without a healthy and positive identity, two current trends will continue: giving up (dropping out of school, society, or even life itself) and attacking a society that has no room for men specifically as men, believing that even a negative identity, acted out in antisocial ways, is better than none at all.

Author : William De Witt Hyde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Ethics written by William De Witt Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaime Alvar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047441842
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanising Oriental Gods written by Jaime Alvar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative sophistication of the three major 'Oriental cults' of the Roman Empire, combining unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual, enabled them, like Early Christianity, to offer a properly ethical salvation in the Weberian sense.

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351874632
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly neglected. This neglect is somewhat surprising given the fact that Kierkegaard was extremely well read in Latin from his early youth when he attended the Borgerdyd School in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard's interest in the Roman authors is perhaps best evidenced by his book collection. In his private library he had a long list of Latin titles and Danish translations of the standard Roman authors in any number of different genres. His extensive and frequent use of writers such as Cicero, Horace, Terence, Seneca, Suetonius and Ovid clearly warrants placing them in the select group of his major sources. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that Kierkegaard made use of the Roman sources in a number of different ways. His readings from the Borgerdyd school seem to have stuck with him as an adult. He constantly refers to Roman authors, such as Livy, Nepos, and Suetonius for colourful stories and anecdotes. In addition, he avails himself of pregnant sayings or formulations from the Roman authors, when appropriate. But his use of these authors is not merely as a rhetorical source. He is also profoundly interested in the Roman philosophy of Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Similarly, just as he is fascinated by Tacitus' portrayal of the early Christians, so also he is amused by the humour of Terence and Apuleius. In short, the Roman authors serve to enrich any number of different aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship with respect to both content and form.

Author : Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004132937
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanising Oriental Gods written by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.