Mutations Of Hellenism In Late Antiquity
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Mutations Of Hellenism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Polymnia Athanassiadi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Mutations Of Hellenism In Late Antiquity written by Polymnia Athanassiadi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whereby over the course of a few hundred years -roughly between the second and the fifth centuries A.D.- an anthropocentric culture mutated into a theocentric one. Rather than underlining the differences between a revamped paganism and the emergent Christian traditions, the essays in the volume focus on the processes of osmosis, interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priorities among the newly created textual communities that were spreading across the entire breadth of the late antique oecumene. The main issues considered in this connection include the phenomena of textuality and holy scripture, canonicity and exclusion, truth and error, prophecy and tradition, authority and challenge, faith and salvation, holy places and holy men, in the context of the construction of new orthodox readings of the Greek philosophical heritage. Moreover the volume suggests that intolerant attitudes, which form a characteristic trait of monotheisms, were not an exclusive preserve of Christianity (as the Enlightenment tradition would insist), but were progressively espoused by pagan philosophers and divine men as part of the theory and practice of Hellenism?s theological koine. Efforts to establish the monopoly of a revealed truth against any rival claims were transversal to the textual communities which emerged in late antiquity and remodelled the intellectual and spiritual landscape of the Greater Mediterranean.
Hellenism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Hellenism In Late Antiquity written by Glen Warren Bowersock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Studies Hellenism's influence on a predominantly Christian world
Hellenism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Hellenism In Late Antiquity written by Glen Warren Bowersock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Professor Bowersock analyses Hellenism and the impact on late antiquity Eastern paganism and Christianity.
Hellenism In Late Antiquity
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Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Hellenism In Late Antiquity written by Glen Warren Bowersock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Church history categories.
Hellenism In Byzantium
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Author : Anthony Kaldellis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Hellenism In Byzantium written by Anthony Kaldellis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with History categories.
This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100-400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied, cultural one. The second (1000-1300) shows how Hellenism was revived in Byzantium and contributed to the evolution of its culture. The discussion looks closely at the reception of the classical tradition, which was the reason why Hellenism was always desirable and dangerous in Christian society, and presents a new model for understanding Byzantine civilisation.
Civic Priests
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Author : Marietta Horster
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Civic Priests written by Marietta Horster and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Religion categories.
Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others, illuminating the social and political identity of these figures within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel, and the honours that they earned, demonstrate their claim on the city’s attention and their financial power. The cityscape itself came to be shaped, in varying intensities and forms, by statues in honour of cult personnel, set up by relatives, fellow citizens and other groups. This set of cultural records, analysed in the studies presented here, is central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis.
Religion And Identity In Porphyry Of Tyre
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Author : Aaron P. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Religion And Identity In Porphyry Of Tyre written by Aaron P. Johnson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with History categories.
Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.
Divine Men And Women In The History And Society Of Late Hellenism
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Author : Maria Dzielska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Divine Men And Women In The History And Society Of Late Hellenism written by Maria Dzielska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Byzantine Empire categories.
The papers collected in the present volume were originally delivered at the conference "Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism", organised at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on the 24th-25th June, 2010. The conference was a unique gathering of international scholars, who cherish thetradition of Hellenism in Late Antiquity and venerate its "divine" representatives (theioi andres), and who deeply identify with the moral values and philosophicalconcepts of those times and the Neoplatonic doctrine in general. The conference gathered many eminent scholars, who brought with them new perspectives on ancient sources, presenting divine men and women of Neoplatonic era, their multifaceted activities, and the entire range of their scientific pursuits and virtues.
Kos Between Hellenism And Rome
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Author : Kostas Buraselis
language : en
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Release Date : 2000
Kos Between Hellenism And Rome written by Kostas Buraselis and has been published by American Philosophical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Greece categories.
Hellenism In Byzantium
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Author : Antōnios Emm Kaldellēs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Hellenism In Byzantium written by Antōnios Emm Kaldellēs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Byzantine Empire categories.
This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100-400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied, cultural one. The second (1000-1300) shows how Hellenism was revived in Byzantium and contributed to the evolution of its culture. The discussion looks closely at the reception of the classical tradition, which was the reason why Hellenism was always desirable and dangerous in Christian society, and presents a new model for understanding Byzantine civilisation.