Description and organization
Current Epigraphy reports news and events in (especially Greek and Latin) epigraphy.
CE publishes workshop and conference announcements, notices of discoveries, publications and reviews, project reports, descriptive links to digital epigraphic projects, and occasional pre-publication previews of new epigraphic material and other short articles.
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The project will offer a critical study of one of the most fundamental ideas of ancient Greek culture – the search for perfection. For centuries, not only philosophers and theologians, but also other intellectuals have reflected on what this ideal should consist in, devising ways of pursuing it in a wide range of human activities. The team will study the complex relationship between theory and praxis, and between ideal and reality, as found in pagan and Christian Greek literature from the first seven centuries CE. Methodologically, the project breaks new ground in going beyond longstanding and widespread (though mostly unjustified) presuppositions in scholarly literature, such as the dichotomy between theory and praxis or the opposition between the pagan and the Christian tradition in this regard. The team has set two main goals: the production (1) of a comprehensive study of the different aspects of ancient ideals of perfection and (2) of a number of in-depth studies of specific problems and core issues related to the overall topic.
Contact
Geert Roskam, Greek Studies Department
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 – box 3309
3000 Leuven
thiasos@kuleuven.be
seriesgraeca@kuleuven.be
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https://www.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/portaal/#/projecten/3H170345?lang=en&hl=en
Description
‘The interpretours of Plato,’ wrote Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governour (1531), ‘do think that the wonderful and incomprehensible order of the celestial bodies, I mean sterres and planettes, and their motions harmonicall, gave to them that intensifly and by the deepe serche of raison beholde their coursis, in the sondrye diversities of number and tyme, a forme of imitation of a semblable motion, which they called daunsigne or sltation.’
The image of the planets and stars engaged in an ordered and measured dance is an ancient one. Plato articulated it in a passage in the Timaeus, where he likened the apparent motions of the planets and stars to ‘choreiai’ (choral dances). Through the centuries the analogy has challenged Plato’s interpreters to define and elaborate the image.
Miller has examined a range of poetic and philosophical texts influenced by Plato cosmology, and has discovered frequent comparisons of the cosmic order to ‘daunsigne.’ He suggests that the vision of the cosmic dance did not develop at random in Western intellectual history but originated in a specific philosophical context and passed through stages of evolution that reflect Gnostic, Christian, Stoic, and Neoplatonic responses to Plato. He argues that the historical variations of the image were often closely related to adaption or criticisms of Plato’s theories of visual perception and intellectual vision.
The dance, in conjunction with images such as the Great chain of Being and the Lyre of the Heavens, became the dominant image of a peculiarly Late Antique world-view which Miller (after Augustine) has called the ‘poetic universe’; a world where metaphors, metonymies, and personifications could exist in fact as well as in word.
The result of Miller’s analysis is vast in scope. The nine chapters of the book each present a thesis on a particular author, but all function together like links in a chain. Miller has been described as ‘an historian of visions’; the book has been likened to Auerbach’s Mimesis. It is a remarkable contribution to an understanding of the complex interaction of ideas and images in time.
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Vendredi 11 février 2022, 16h00-18h30, via Zoom.
Le projet de recherches « Les platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive : interactions philosophiques et religieuses » a pour but de créer un espace de rencontre régulier permettant de faire collaborer des chercheurs et des chercheuses travaillant dans les domaines de l’histoire de la philosophie et de l’histoire des religions. Ce projet vise à étudier les échanges entre les pensées philosophiques, philosophico-religieuses et religieuses à l’époque de l’Empire romain et de l’Antiquité tardive afin de mieux comprendre, d’une part, son impact sur l’émergence et la construction des philosophies néoplatoniciennes et, d’autre part, identifier les sources philosophiques des textes gnostiques, hermétiques et des Oracles chaldaïques. Il prend la suite d’un précédent projet collaboratif « Plotin et les gnostiques », en en élargissant le champ de recherches quant à la chronologie (avant et après Plotin) et quant aux corpus étudiés (médioplatoniciens, hermétiques, etc.) et il est en lien direct avec la thématique de la base de données https://platonismes.huma-num.
Programme
Plotin, les gnostiques et les chrétiens
Jean-Marc Narbonne (Université Laval) : L’hypothétique ‘Grand traité de Plotin (30-33)’ : un état de la question.
Izabela Jurasz (Centre Léon-Robin, CNRS) : L’âme composée à partir des éléments (psukhê ek tôn stoikheiôn) dans la critique de Plotin (33 [II 9]. Une nouvelle hypothèse.
Contact
Projet pluriannuel de recherches dirigé par Luciana Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns.
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Lien
https://cnrs.academia.edu/LucianaGabrielaSoaresSantoprete
https://lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?Luciana-Gabriela-Soares-Santoprete
La Collection des Études augustiniennes, Série Antiquité (EAA), fondée en 1954 par F. Cayré et G. Folliet, riche de plus de 190 volumes, reflète les centres d’intérêt de l’Institut d’Études augustiniennes. Elle comprend des ouvrages d’érudition qui traitent prioritairement de saint Augustin, son œuvre et sa pensée, mais aussi, plus généralement, de la littérature chrétienne de l’Antiquité, de l’histoire de l’Antiquité tardive et de l’histoire des idées chrétiennes. Accompagnés d’un riche appareil de notes et d’index, fondés sur une connaissance approfondie de la bibliographie savante et sur les dernières découvertes de la recherche, les livres de la Collection constituent de solides monographies pour étudier l’Antiquité tardive sous ses différents aspects. Le fonds de la Collection comporte un nombre important d’ouvrages signés par de grands savants qui ont marqué la science française et internationale, comme René Braun, Pierre Courcelle, Pierre Hadot, Goulven Madec, Jean Pépin, etc. Sensible à l’évolution des modalités de la recherche contemporaine, la Collection publie également des ouvrages collectifs issus de rencontres scientifiques internationales. Les livres publiés dans la Collection sont, pour la grande majorité, écrits en français, mais la Collection n’exclut pas les études rédigées dans les langues de la communication scientifique internationale.
La Collection des Études augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, est dirigée par Frédéric Chapot, professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg, entouré d’un conseil scientifique comprenant Nicole Bériou (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris), Marie-Odile Boulnois (École pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences religieuses), Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3), François Dolbeau (École pratique des Hautes Études, IVe section), Cédric Giraud (Université de Lorraine), Michel-Yves Perrin (École pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences religieuses), Pierre Petitmengin (École Normale Supérieure, Paris) et Vincent Zarini (Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV).
Lien: http://www.etudes-augustiniennes.paris-sorbonne.fr/collection-des-etudes?lang=fr
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Proclus (AD 412–85) was one of the last official ‘successors’ of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This book introduces the reader to Proclus’ life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus’ metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus’ thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments.
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Table of contents
1 Proclus of Athens
2 Proclus’ Place in the Platonic Tradition
3 Proclus’ System
4 The One, the Henads, and the Principles*
5 Platonic Forms and the Triad of Being, Life, and Intellect
6 Proclus on the Psychê
7 The Natural World
8 Mathematics and the Sciences
9 Proclus on Epistemology, Language, and Logic
10 Proclus’ Theology
11 Theurgy in the Context of Proclus’ Philosophy
12 Providence and Evil
13 The Human Life
14 Literary Theory and Aesthetics
15 Proclus’ Legacy
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The Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (ZAC) is a refereed academic journal which aims at encouraging the dialogue between scholars of church history, history of religion, and classical antiquity with all its subdisciplines (classical and Christian Near Eastern philology, ancient history, classical and Christian archaeology, as well as the history of ancient philosophy and religion). In this context, ancient Christianity is understood in its complete prosopographic and doxographic breadth, with special emphasis on the influences of peripheral groups and related movements. The Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum seeks to take into account that ancient Christianity developed through processes of reception and interchange with its Jewish and non-Christian environment, and can, therefore, only be researched in an interdisciplinary way. ZAC seeks to provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange, and to act as a mediator between those disciplines that deal with ancient Christianity. In all these efforts the journal acknowledges its debt to Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942) as well as to the French and Anglo-Saxon historiographical tradition on ancient Christianity. Yet, it is not the publication of a particular school, but open to all who research this area regardless of religion, denomination or language. Each issue of the journal usually opens with a research report. At least once a year, important new findings and tendencies in epigraphy, papyrology, codicology and Christian archaeology are surveyed. A special rubric is dedicated to a report on new textual editions of Greek, Latin and Christian Near Eastern sources. In particular instances, there is a special section for smaller editions (inscriptions, catena fragments, sermons and letters). Occasionally, the Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum not only contains essays and short articles, but also a discussion section with short contributions to a special theme, reports on scholarly meetings, and important dates. The journal concludes with an extensive review section. The Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum appears tri-annually with approx. 600 pages in toto. In general, contributions should be in German, English, French or Italian, concluded by either an English or German abstract. For the publication of inscriptions and archaeological findings, illustrative tables (in general black and white) are provided. Greek and Christian Near Eastern scripts are not transliterated, and always provided with a German, English or French translation.
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The journal welcomes proposals for book reviews.
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Since 1950 The Journal of Ecclesiastical History has published original research articles, scholarly reviews, review articles, notes and documents, relating to all aspects of the history of Christianity. The journal’s scope extends to cultural, institutional, intellectual, political, social and any other relevant form of history; to all periods from ancient to modern; and to all regions of the world. Contributors address detailed research questions as well as engaging with the wider issues in the field.
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The journal welcomes proposals for book reviews.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history
