Roman Imperialism

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Roman Imperialism

Leiden: Brill

Description

Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a source of perennial scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.

As of 2021, Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History is no longer published as a journal by Brill, but will continue as a book series. Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History (RPAH) is a peer-reviewed journal presenting review articles with commentary on the current state of the field of Ancient History. Articles draw on the latest interdisciplinary research in historical, cultural, political, social, and theoretical analysis to provide useful, up-to-date review and commentary for scholars, teachers, and students. Focused on Ancient History, the RPAH has a broad scope in geographic and chronological terms encompassing the Greco-Roman world, including the Mediterranean basin and Europe, from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.

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https://brill.com/view/journals/rpah/2/2/article-p1_1.xml

La philosophie comme éducation des adultes. Textes, perspectives, entretiens

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

La philosophie comme éducation des adultes

Textes, perspectives, entretiens

Pierre Hadot, Paris: Vrin, 2019

Description

« Le philosophe n’apprend pas aux hommes un métier particulier, […] mais il cherche à transformer leur sensibilité, leur caractère, leur manière de voir le monde ou d’être en rapport avec les autres hommes. On pourrait dire qu’il leur apprend le métier d’homme. »
Si la tâche de la philosophie est de former plutôt que d’informer, la philosophie est précisément l’éducation des adultes. C’est en ces termes que Pierre Hadot évoque une conception de la philosophie comme manière de vivre que toute son œuvre aura brillamment contribué à réactiver. Grand lecteur des philosophes antiques, de Socrate et Platon à Épictète, Marc Aurèle et Plotin, mais aussi des philosophes modernes ou contemporains, de Montaigne et Descartes à Nietzsche et Merleau-Ponty, dans ce recueil de textes – introuvables ou inédits – Pierre Hadot relit l’histoire de la pensée afin de nous aider à réorienter notre vie et à réapprendre à voir le monde. Ces textes témoignent de sa capacité de parler à la fois au public universitaire et aux non spécialistes passionnés de philosophie. On y reconnaît toujours la clarté et la puissance de sa pensée. Sommes-nous prêts à être (trans)formés par la philosophie ?

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Table de matières

PRÉFACE : ÉLOGE DE PIERRE HADOT par Arnold I. DAVIDSON  5

PREMIÈRE PARTIE RÉORIENTER LA PHILOSOPHIE ANTIQUE : PENSER, VIVRE, ENSEIGNER

CHAPITRE PREMIER : TITRES ET TRAVAUX DE PIERRE HADOT  17

CHAPITRE II : EPISTROPHÈ ET METANOIA DANS L’HISTOIRE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE   45

CHAPITRE III : LES PREMIERS PHILOSOPHES 53

CHAPITRE IV : LA PHILOSOPHIE HELLÉNISTIQUE  57

CHAPITRE V : MARC AURÈLE, PENSÉES  77

CHAPITRE VI : MARC AURÈLE, PENSÉES POUR MOI-MÊME, LIVRE VI  85

CHAPITRE VII : NOTE SUR L’ESTHÉTIQUE DE PLOTIN  101

CHAPITRE VIII : LES NIVEAUX DE CONSCIENCE DANS LES ÉTATS MYSTIQUES SELON PLOTIN  109

CHAPITRE IX : LA PRÉHISTOIRE DES GENRES LITTÉRAIRES PHILOSOPHIQUES MÉDIÉVAUX DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ  137

CHAPITRE X : ENSEIGNEMENT ANTIQUE ET ENSEIGNEMENT MODERNE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE  149

DEUXIÈME PARTIE RELIRE L’HISTOIRE DE LA PENSÉE

CHAPITRE XI : LA PHILOSOPHIE COMME ÉDUCATION DES ADULTES  179

CHAPITRE XII : PRÉFACE À ERNST BERTRAM, NIETZSCHE. ESSAI DE MYTHOLOGIE  189

CHAPITRE XIII : L’EXPÉRIENCE DE LA MÉDITATION  193

CHAPITRE XIV : LA TERRE VUE D’EN HAUT ET LE VOYAGE COSMIQUE. LE POINT DE VUE DU POÈTE, DU PHILOSOPHE ET DE L’HISTORIEN  201

CHAPITRE XV : PERSPECTIVE ET HORIZON  213

CHAPITRE XVI : ANDRÉ-JEAN FESTUGIÈRE (1898-1982)  225

CHAPITRE XVII : PRÉFACE À LOUIS LAVELLE, L’EXISTENCE ET LA VALEUR  231

CHAPITRE XVIII : PRÉFACE À YOKO ORIMO, LE SHÔBÔGENZÔ DE MAÎTRE DÔGEN  239

CHAPITRE XIX : ÉMERVEILLEMENTS   247

TROISIÈME PARTIE RÉAPPRENDRE À VOIR LE MONDE

CHAPITRE XX :«VIVRE CHAQUE MOMENT COMME SI C’ÉTAIT LE PREMIER ET LE DERNIER »  257

CHAPITRE XXI :«FACE AU CIEL ÉTOILÉ, J’AI VRAIMENT ÉPROUVÉ LE SENTIMENT BRUT DE MON EXISTENCE »  261

CHAPITRE XXII : MÉTAPHYSIQUE ET PEINTURE   269

CHAPITRE XXIII : PIERRE HADOT : HISTOIRE DU SOUCI  279

CHAPITRE XXIV : PHILOSOPHIE ANTIQUE ET PSYCHOTHÉRAPIES MODERNES  291

CHAPITRE XXV : L’ENSEIGNEMENT DES ANTIQUES, L’ENSEIGNEMENT DES MODERNES. ENTRETIEN ENTRE PIERRE HADOT ET ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON   305

POSTFACE : LA FIGURE DU GUIDE SPIRITUEL DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ par Ilsetraut HADOT  323

TABLE DES MATIÈRES  361

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http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782711628698

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1. Western Scholarly Networks and Debates

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Western Scholarly Networks and Debates

Dragos Calma, Leiden: Brill, 2019

Description

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus’ Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.

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Table of contents

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Notes on the Western Scholarly Networks and Debates – By: Dragos Calma

Liber de causis

Tradition exégétique : âges, styles et formes d’ une réception par le commentaire – By: Dominique Poirel

La première réception du Liber de causis en Occident (XIIe–XIIIe siècles) – By: Irene Caiazzo

The De causis in Thomas of York – By: Fiorella Retucci

Le Liber de causis et l’ Elementatio theologica dans deux bibliothèques anglaises : Merton College (Oxford) et Peterhouse (Cambridge) – By: Laure Miolo

Les gloses sur le Liber de causis dans les manuscrits parisiens – By: Olga Weijers

From Content to Method: the Liber de causis in Albert the Great – By: Katja Krause and Henryk Anzulewicz

Citing the Book of Causes, IV: Henry of Ghent and His (?) Questions on the Metaphysics – By: Maria Evelina Malgieri

Duns Scot et le Liber de causis – By: Jean-Michel Counet

Sine secundaria: Thomas d’ Aquin, Siger de Brabant et les débats sur l’ occasionalisme – By: Dragos Calma

The Liber de causis in Some Central European Quodlibets – By: Iulia Székely

Proclus

Proclus, Eustrate de Nicée et leur réception aux XIIIe–XIVe siècles – By: Irene Zavattero

Bate et sa lecture ‘encyclopédiste’ de Proclus – By: Guy Guldentops

Au-delà de la métaphysique: Notule sur l’ importance du Commentaire de Berthold de Moosburg OP sur les Éléments de théologie – By: Ruedi Imbach

Eriugenism in Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli – By: Evan King

Proclus dans la première quaestio collativa de Gilles Charlier – By: Zénon Kaluza

Plato’s Parmenides as Serious Game: Contarini and the Renaissance Reception of Proclus – By: Barbara Bartocci

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/34818

Hellenistic Egypt: An Ancient Poly-Ethnic State; Population, Ethnic Groups, Society

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Hellenistic Egypt, An Ancient Poly-Ethnic State

Population, Ethnic Groups, Society

Per Bilde, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992

Description

The third volume in the `Studies in Hellenistic Civilization’ series contains eight essays arising from the second international conference organized by the Danish research project on the Hellenistic period in 1990. Contributors include: U Ostergard (What is national and ethnic identity?); D J Thompson (Language and literacy in early Hellenistic Egypt); J Blomquist (Alexandrian science: the case of Eratosthenes); K Goudriaan (Ethnical strategies in Graeco-Roman Egypt); A Kasher (The civic status of the Jews in Prolemaic Egypt); P Borgen (Philo and the Jews in Alexandria); C R Holladay (Jewish responses to Hellenistic culture); J P Sorensen (Native reactions to foreign rule and culture in religious literature).

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Link

https://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/h/hellenismestudier-2-aspekter-af-hellenismen/

Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity. Religious and Philosophical Interactions

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum

Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity

Religious and Philosophical Interactions

Eleni Pachoumi and Mark Edwards, Heidelberg: Mohr Siebeck, 2018

Description

The present volume is focused on the interactions and syncretistic tensions between religion and philosophy in Late Antiquity. The contributors examine issues of personal religious attitudes, initiation to the mysteries, Orphism, theurgy, magic, the Neoplatonist philosopher’s quest for intimacy or union with the divine, magic and Christianity, and oracles, dream-visions and divination.

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Table of contents

Eleni Pachoumi and Mark Edwards – Introduction

John Dillon – Prayer and Contemplation in the Neoplatonic and Sufi Traditions

Eleni Pachoumi – Magico-religious and Philosophical Interactions in Proclus’ Theurgic Unions

John F. Finamore – Reason and Irrationality: Iamblichus on Divination through Dreams

Mark Wildish – Iamblichus on the Language of Prayer

Wayne J. Hankey – Ratio, Preces, Intuitus: Prayer’s Mediation in Boethius’ Consolation

John Hilton – Public and Private Prayer in the Works of the Emperor Julian

Mark Edwards – Primitive Christianity and Magic

Bronwen Neil – Dream-visions, Prophecy and Contemplation in Origen’s Contra Celsum

Annemaré Kotzé – Augustine Addressing God and Man in the Confessions

Matthew W. Dickie – The Meaning of Initiation in Late Antiquity

Lech Trzcionkowski – Hieroi Logoi in 24 Rhapsodies. The Orphic Codex?

Philip Bosman – The End of the Ancient Oracles: From Deception to Dangerous Demons

List of Authors/Contributors

Index of Ancient Authors

Index of References

Index of Subjects

Link

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/praying-and-contemplating-in-late-antiquity-9783161561191?no_cache=1

Mystik und Literatur: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Mystik und Literatur

Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven

Giulia Agostini (Hg.), Michael Schulz (Hg.), Heidelberg: Winter, 2019

Beschreibung

Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band hat zum Ziel, das Thema der Mystik aus literatur-wissenschaftlicher, philosophisch-interkultureller und theologisch-interreligiöser Perspektive zu beleuchten. Dabei geht es insbesondere um eine epochenübergreifende Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Mystik und Literatur vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Innerhalb dieses weitgespannten Bogens soll der systematische Perspektiven eröffnenden Begegnung zwischen Literaturwissenschaft, Theologie und Philosophie besonderes Gewicht zukommen.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Inhalt

Vorwort 7

Mystik und Institution. Unmittelbarkeit und Vermittlung des Heils Michael Schulz (Bonn) 9

Mystik ohne Gott? Der scholastische Hintergrund tibetischer ‚Mystik‘ aus der Sicht des jesuitischen Missionars Ippolito Desideri (1684‒1733) Karsten Schmidt (Frankfurt) 29

„Der Geist ist trunken wie von Wein“. Grenzüberschreitende Aspekte der christlich-orientalischen Mystik Martin Tamcke (Göttingen) 73

Islamische Mystik als Pfad der Liebe. Das Beispiel der osmanischen Dichterin Seref Hanim (1809–1861) Erdal Toprakyaran (Tübingen) 81

Philosophia orientalis. Grenzgänge zwischen Mystik, Politik und Literatur Cem Kömürcü (Bonn) 107

Engel im Feuer. Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte einer ZoharStelle zwischen jüdischer Mystik, moderner Esoterik und kritischer Theorie Elke Morlok und Ansgar Martins (Frankfurt a. M.) 127

Profane Mystik. Bataille und Proust Giulia Agostini (Heidelberg) 169

Vita passiva oder: Mystik zwischen Heroisierung und Ironie Philipp Stoellger (Heidelberg) 209

Link

https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-6966-8/Agostini_Mystik_und_Literatur/

New Antiquities.Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond.

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

New Antiquities

Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond

Dylan Michael Burns and Almut-Barbara Renger (eds.), Leiden: Brill, 2019

Description

Just as we speak of “dead” languages, we say that religions “die out.” Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars.

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Table of Contents

1 – Introduction: What are New Antiquities? – Dylan Michael Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger

2 – ‘From Aphrodite to Kuan Yin’ – ‘The Tao of Venus’ and its Modern Genealogy: Invoking Ancient Goddesses in Cos(met)ic Acupuncture – Almut-Barbara Renger

3 – Ancient Goddesses for Modern Times or New Goddesses from Ancient Times? – Meret Fehlmann

4 – The Artifice of Daidalos: Modern Minoica as Religious Focus in Contemporary Paganism – Caroline Jane Tully

5 – Transforming Deities: Modern Pagan Projects of Revival and Reinvention – Kathryn Rountree

6 – Archaeology, Historicity and Homosexuality in the New Cultus of Antinous: Perceptions of the Past in a Contemporary Pagan Religion – Ethan Doyle White

7 – Reading History with the Essenes of Elmira – Anne Kreps

8 – The Jungian Gnosticism of the Ecclesia Gnostica – Olav Hammer

9 – The Impact of Scholarship on Contemporary “Gnosticism(s)”: A Case Study on the Apostolic Johannite Church and Jeremy Puma – Matthew Dillon

10 – Studying the “Gnostic Bible”: Samael Aun Weor and the Pistis Sophia – Franz Winter

11 – Binding Images: The Contemporary Use and Efficacy of Late Antique Ritual Sigils, Spirit-Beings, and Design Elements – Jay Johnston

12 – (Neo-)Bogomil Legends: The Gnosticizing Bogomils of the Twentieth-Century Balkans – Dylan Michael Burns,Nemanja Radulovic

Index – Dylan Michael Burns,Almut-Barbara Renger

Link

https://brill.com/view/journals/nu/67/1/article-p104_7.xml?language=en

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

David Frankfurter (ed), Leiden: Brill, 2019

Description

In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term “magic” and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1) indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity; (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated “magical” or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of contexts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term “magic” might usefully pertain. The individual essays in this volume cover most of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, with essays by both established and emergent scholars of ancient religions. In a burgeoning field of “magic studies” trying both to preserve and to justify critically the category itself, this volume brings new clarity and provocative insights. This will be an indispensable resource to all interested in magic in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity and Judaism, Egypt through the Christian period, and also comparative and critical theory.

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Table of contents

Introduction

Ancient Magic in a New Key: Refining an Exotic Discipline in the History of Religions – David Frankfurter

The Plan of This Volume – David Frankfurter

Cultural Constructions of Ambiguous, Unsanctioned, or Illegitimate Ritual – David Frankfurter

Mesopotamia – Daniel Schwemer

Iran – Albert de Jong

Egypt – Jacco Dieleman

Greece – Fritz Graf

Ancient Israel and Early Judaism – Yuval Harari

Rome and the Roman Empire – Magali Bailliot

Early Christianity – Joseph E. Sanzo

Roman and Byzantine Egypt – Jacques van der Vliet

The Materials of Ancient Magic – David Frankfurter

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri – Jacco Dieleman

Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt – Jacques van der Vliet

Binding Spells on Tablets and Papyri – Esther Eidinow

Jewish Amulets, Magic Bowls, and Manuals in Aramaic and Hebrew – Gideon Bohak

Gems – Véronique Dasen and Árpád M. Nagy

Figurines, Images, and Representations Used in Ritual Practices – Andrew T. Wilburn

Textual Amulets and Writing Traditions in the Ancient World – Roy D. Kotansky

Building Ritual Agency: Foundations, Floors, Doors, and Walls – Andrew T. Wilburn

Dimensions of a Category Magic – David Frankfurter

Spell and Speech Act: The Magic of the Spoken Word – David Frankfurter

The Magic of Writing in Mediterranean Antiquity – David Frankfurter

Magic and the Forces of Materiality – David Frankfurter

The Magical Elements of Mysticism: Ritual Strategies for Encountering Divinity – Naomi Janowitz

Magic and Theurgy – Sarah Iles Johnston

Magic as the Local Application of Authoritative Tradition – David Frankfurter

Magic and Social Tension – Esther Eidinow

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/12555

Greek Writers and Philosophers in Philo and Josephus. A Study of Their Secular Education and Educational Ideals

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Greek Writers and Philosophers in Philo and Josephus

A Study of Their Secular Education and Educational Ideals

Erkki Koskenniemi, Leiden: Brill, 2019

Description

In Greek Writers and Philosophers in Philo and Josephus Erkki Koskenniemi investigates how two Jewish writers, Philo and Josephus, quoted, mentioned and referred to Greek writers and philosophers. He asks what this tells us about their Greek education, their contacts with Classical culture in general, and about the societies in which Philo and Josephus lived. Although Philo in Alexandria and Josephus in Jerusalem both had the possibility to acquire a thorough knowledge of Greek language and culture, they show very different attitudes. Philo, who was probably admitted to the gymnasium, often and enthusiastically refers to Greek poets and philosophers. Josephus on the other hand rarely quotes from their works, giving evidence of a more traditionalistic tendencies among Jewish nobility in Jerusalem.

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Table of contents

Introduction

Philo: Offspring from Sarah and Hagar

Josephus: It Is Difficult to Transplant an Old Tree

Philo and Josephus

Bibliography

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/54233

La fuite du monde dans la philosophie de Plotin

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

La fuite du monde dans la philosophie de Plotin

Corentin Tresnie, Paris: Vrin, 2019

Description

La fuite du monde est une préoccupation importante du public lettré du IIIe siècle, troublé par d’importantes crises sociales et politiques ; Plotin le reformule philosophiquement afin d’y apporter réponse. En partant d’un postulat de systématicité de sa pensée, cet ouvrage examine la définition qu’il propose du sujet d’une telle fuite (le « nous »), la possibilité et la désirabilité de sa réalisation, avant de s’intéresser à ses modalités philosophiques et éthiques, pour conclure sur la divinisation qui en résulte par union à l’Intelligence et à l’Un. Cette fuite se révèle être un prolongement du rapport naturel au monde, caractérisé par un universel amour de l’unité qui tend nécessairement à la contemplation, et vise à l’optimiser. Le « nous », illumination du corps par l’âme, devient dans le processus un divin sage, qui à son tour assume un rôle d’enseignement, s’alignant dans ses actes sur la Providence universelle.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Lien

http://www.vrin.fr/book.php?code=9782870601860