The Roman World Of Dio Chrysostom

Author : Christopher Prestige Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom written by Christopher Prestige Jones and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's birthplace, education, and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio's life and art, as well as the life, thought, and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio's attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented.

Author : Simon Swain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199255214
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dio Chrysostom written by Simon Swain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dio Chrysostom is a major representative of the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. He offers an impressive range of high-quality writing, social comment, and appraisal of Rome's Empire at its height. This volume presents eleven new assessments by an international team of experts who for the first time study Dio's politics alongside his philosophy and writing.

Author : Chrysostom Dio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258017071
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dio Chrysostom written by Chrysostom Dio and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521376969
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dio Chrysostom Orations VII, XII, and XXXVI written by Dio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. E. Lendon
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199247639
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Honour written by J. E. Lendon and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. E. Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shard by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and Greek aristocrats of the empire conceived of their relative standing in terms of public esteem or honour, and conceived of their cities - toward which they felt a warm patriotism - as entities locked in a parallel struggle for primacy in honour over rivals. Emperors and provincial governors exploited these rivalries to gain the indispensable co-operation of local magnates by granting honours to individuals and their cities. Since rulers strove for honour as well, their subjects manipulated them with honours in their turn. Honour - whose workings are also traced in the Roman army - served as a way of talking and thinking about Roman government: it was both a species of power, and a way - connived in by rulers and ruled - of concealing the terrible realities of imperial rule. -- Book Cover

Author : Chrysostom Dio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258017064
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dio Chrysostom written by Chrysostom Dio and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard Victor Rutgers
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042906969
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World written by Leonard Victor Rutgers and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a number of scholars from Israel, the USA, and England have joined forces with the well-known Utrecht University Research Unit "The Cultural Milieu of Early Christianity" to investigate in an unprecendently interdisciplinary fashion how sacred books functioned in pagan, Jewish, and Christian circles. The 16 essays cover a wide range of topics including a discussion of emergence of canonical scriptures in late antiquity, an investigation of parallels between exegesis of Homer by the Greeks and that of the Bible by the Jews, a study of the rise of Virgil's Aeneid to the status of "canonical" book; a discussion of the use of sacred books as instant oracles; an investigation of the role of the Bible in polemics between Jews and Christians; an analysis of the wide variety of quotation formula's used by New Testament authors, a discussion of the role of biblical interpretation in the thought world of Jesus' brother, James; an investigation of the function of Scripture in the midrash Aggadat Bereshit, and other topics.

Author : Christopher Prestige Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom written by Christopher Prestige Jones and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's birthplace, education, and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio's life and art, as well as the life, thought, and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio's attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented.

Author : Peter van Nuffelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113950343X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Gods written by Peter van Nuffelen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the usual perspective of the history of religion, but as part of the wider tendency of Post-Hellenistic philosophy to open up to external, non-philosophical sources of knowledge and authority. It situates two key themes, ancient wisdom and cosmic hierarchy, in the context of Post-Hellenistic philosophy and traces their reconfigurations in contemporary literature and in the polemic between Jews, Christians and pagans. Overall, Post-Hellenistic philosophy displayed a relatively high degree of unity in its ideas on religion, which should not be reduced to a preparation for Neoplatonism.

Author : Robert McQueen Grant
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664224523
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul in the Roman World written by Robert McQueen Grant and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the apostle Paul wrote letters to many of the churches he founded, none of his extant letters reveal more about him, his missionary activity, and the community of faith he sought to pastor than 1 Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians, Paul tried to influence--even control--the church in the context of a city that had lasting memories of Greek democracy but the present realities of a Roman proconsul. This volume highlights Paul as apostle, missionary, and pastor against the backdrop of the Greco-Roman culture, economics, and politics.