The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity

Albrecht Dihle, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1982

Description

The concept of the will as a faculty of mind independent of the intellect or the emotions was never employed by ancient Greek thinkers. Professor Dihle investigates what the Greeks did think about voluntary activity, how they were able to work without the concept of the will, and the difficulties they encountered because of the lack of such a concept. His six chapters – Cosmological conceptions in the Second Century A. D., The Greek View of Human Action I, The Greek View of Human Action II, St. Paul and Philo, Philosophy and Religion in Late Antiquity and St. Augustine and His Concept of Will – take him virtually through the whole of Greek literature, from Homer through Plato and Aristotle and later philosophers, trough the early Christian writers, and finally into the Roman tradition. The study culminates with St. Augustine, who first used by modern thinkers, to point to the very essence of the moral self of man. Professor Dihle’s work combines immense intellect and learning with great clarity of exposition. His book will gain a wide readership among those interested in philosophy, religion, and classical studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cosmological conceptions in the Second Century A. D.
  2. The Greek View of Human Action I
  3. The Greek View of Human Action II
  4. Paul and Philo
  5. Philosophy and Religion in Late Antiquity
  6. Augustine and His Concept of Will

Appendix I

Appendix II

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Greek and Latin Words

Index of Passages Cited

General Index

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520313101/html

Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Religious Dimensions of the Self

in the Second Century CE

Jörg Rüpke & Gregory Woolf, Heidelberg: Mohr Siebeck, 2013

Description

Jörg Rüpke et Greg Woolf viennent de publier un ouvrage collectif Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE, Tübingen, 2013. Il s’agit de la publication des communications présentées lors d’un atelier qui s’est déroulé à Erfurt en juin 2010. L’ensemble est organisé en quatre parties :

– la tradition philosophique (Eran Almagor sur Plutarque et Jula Wildberger sur Epictète)

– les concepts religieux du soi (Jörg Rüpke sur le Pasteur d’Hermas, Harry O. Maier sur Clément d’Alexandrie, Christoph Markschies sur les valentiniens, Anders Klostergaard Petersen sur Justin le Martyr, Anna Van den Kerchove sur des écrits hermétiques, Richard Gordon sur le mystagogue)

– la seconde sophistique (Wolfgang Spickermann sur Lucian et Dorothee Elm von der Osten sur Lucian et Apulée)

– les pratiques du soi (Zsuzsanna Várhelyi sur le soin de soi, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo sur les offrandes votives et Peter Gemeinhardt sur la représentation au début du christianisme).

Que ce livre aux contributions diverses apporte une nouvelle pierre aux réflexions sur le Soi dans l’Antiquité.

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Table de matières

Gregory D. Woolf/Jörg Rüpke: Introduction

Rethinking Philosophical Tradition

Eran Almagor: Dualism and the Self in Plutarch’s Thought

Jula Wildberger: Delimiting a Self by God: Epictetus and Other Stoics Religious Concepts of the Self

Jörg Rüpke: Two Cities and One Self: Transformations of Jerusalem and Reflexive Individuality in the Shepherd of Hermas

Harry O. Maier: Dressing for Church: Tailoring the Christian Self in Clement of Alexandria

Christoph Markschies: Das ‘Selbst’ in der Valentinianischen Gnosis

Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Emergence of Selfhood in the Writings of Justin

Anna Van den Kerchove: Self-Affirmation and Self-Negation in the Hermetic Revelation Treatises

Richard Gordon: Innovation, Individuality and Power in Graeco-Roman Religion: The Mystagogue Second Sophistic Perspectives

Wolfgang Spickermann: Philosophical Standards and Individual Life Style: Lucian’s Peregrinus/Proteus – Charlatan and Hero

Dorothee Elm von der Osten: Habitus corporis und Selbstdarstellung in Lukians Alexander oder der Lügenprophet und der Apologie des Apuleius Practices of the Self

Zsuzsanna Várhelyi: Selves in Sickness and Health: Some Religious Aspects of Self-Care Among the Imperial Elite

Elena Muñiz Grivaljo: Votive Offerings and the Self in Roman Athens

Peter Gemeinhardt: Wege und Umwege zum Selbst: Bildung und Religion im frühen Christentum

Lien

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/religious-dimensions-of-the-self-in-the-second-century-ce-9783161523519?no_cache=1

From Shame to Sin

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

From Shame to Sin

The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

Kyle Harper, New Jersey: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2013

Description

When Rome was at its height, an emperor’s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation of men caught in same-sex affairs, even as he affirmed the moral dignity of women without any civic claim to honor. The gradual transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian marks one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center of it all was sex. Exploring sources in literature, philosophy, and art, Kyle Harper examines the rise of Christianity as a turning point in the history of sexuality and helps us see how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. While Roman sexual culture was frankly and freely erotic, it was not completely unmoored from constraint. Offending against sexual morality was cause for shame, experienced through social condemnation. The rise of Christianity fundamentally changed the ethics of sexual behavior. In matters of morality, divine judgment transcended that of mere mortals, and shame — a social concept — gave way to the theological notion of sin. This transformed understanding led to Christianity’s explicit prohibitions of homosexuality, extramarital love, and prostitution. Most profound, however, was the emergence of the idea of free will in Christian dogma, which made all human action, including sexual behavior, accountable to the spiritual, not the physical, world.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: From City to Cosmos

  1. The Moralities of Sex in the Roman Empire
  2. The Will and the World in Early Christian Sexuality
  3. Church, Society, and Sex in the Age of Triumph
  4. Revolutionizing Romance in the Late Classical World

Conclusion: Sex and the Twilight of Antiquity

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660014

Learning Greek with Plato. A Beginner’s Course in Classical Greek

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Learning Greek with Plato

A Beginner’s Course in Classical Greek

Frank Beetham, Liverpool: Liverpool Phoenix Press, 2007

 Description

Adult learners of ancient Greek are often attracted to it by the prospect of being able to read in the original a particular author or genre. Greek philosophical writing and Plato in particular is often the target. This book’s material has been tried and tested by the author over the years with adult classes, and can be used as a course textbook, or as a handbook for self-teaching. Each of 25 sections is clearly laid out – with tabulation of Greek word-forms and grammar. Each includes ample exercises and practice in reading Greek sentences. Readings in later sections consist of passages of continuous Greek from Plato’s Meno, a typical Platonic dramatic dialogue.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Background to Plato’s Meno

Section 1

The Alphabet, Punctuation and Accents

Section 2

The Verb « I am »

Asking Questions

Nouns and Declensions

Adjectives

Plurals

Section 3

Subjects and Verbs – Verb Endings

Personal Pronouns

Neuter Plural Subjects

Section 4

The Object

Accusative of Respect or Manner

Note on Greek Dialects

Section 5

Verbs – Middle and Passive Endings « This »,

Section 6

The Present Infinitive

Adverbs

The Genitive Case

Section 7

Conjunctions

The Dative Case

« Who? » and « What? »

« Someone » and « Something »

The Vocative Case

Third and Mixed Declension Adjectivess

Section 8

Prepositions

Verbs – Overview of Tenses

The Imperfect Tense

Augments

Translating Plato’s Meno 70a1-70c3

Section 9

The Perfect Tense

The Perfect Tense Middle and Passive

Translating Plato’s Meno 70c3-71c4

Section 10

Demonstrative Pronouns

Present Participles

The Perfect Active Participle

Middle and Passive Participles

Translating Plato’s Meno 71c5-72a5

Section 11

« Every »/ « All »

The Aorist Tense

The Weak Aorist Indicative Active

The Weak Aorist Indicative Middle

Kinds of Condition

Translating Plato’s Meno 72a6-72d3

Section 12

Multiple Questions

The Future Active

The Future Middle

The Subjunctive Mood

Infinitive as Subject and Object

Future and General Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 72d4-73c5

Section 13

Adjectives with Masculine for Feminine

The Optative Mood

Future Unlikely Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 73c6-74a6

Section 14

The Strong Aorist Active Tense

The Strong Aorist Middle Tense

Purpose Clauses

Translating Plato’s Meno 74a7-74e10

Section 15

Imperatives

Prohibitions

Strong and Doubtful Denials

Translating Plato’s Meno 74e11-75d7

Section 16

Contraction (Verbs)

Translating Plato’s Meno 75d7-76c3

Section 17

Relative Pronouns: « Who », « What », « Which », « That »

Translating Plato’s Meno 76c4-77a2

Section 18

The Aorist Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77a2-77e4

Section 19

The Genitive Absolute

The Future Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77e5-78c3

Section 20

Temporal Clauses

The Pluperfect Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 78c4-79a2

Section 21

Contracted Adjective Endings (Third Declension)

Reported Speech

Accusative and Infinitive used for Reported Statements

Participle Construction with « Know » or « See »

Relative Clauses, Direct and Indirect Questions

Translating Plato’s Meno 79a3-79c10

Section 22

(« Because »)

(« Although »)

Numerals

Multiple Negatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79d1-79e6

Section 23

Irregular Adjectives

Comparatives and Superlatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79e7-80b7

Section 24

Translating Plato’s Meno 80b8-81a10

Section 25

Impersonal Verbs

Accusative Absolute

Verbal Adjectives

Reflexive Pronouns

Translating Plato’s Meno 81a10-81e6

Appendices

Cases and Prepositions

Summary of Voice, Mood, Tense and Aspect in the Greek Verb

Word Order

Duals

Numerals

Declension of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns

Reference List of Verb Endings and Irregular Verbs

Answers

Word List

Principal Tenses of Some of the More Difficult Verbs

Index

Link

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/series/series-12370/

Les impondérables de l’hellénisation. Littérature d’hiérogrammates 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Les impondérables de l’hellénisation

Littérature d’hiérogrammates 

Derchain P., Turnhout: Brepolis, 2000

Table des matières 

Préface

I. Les impondérables de l’hellénisation

Les règles du jeu

Un conseiller de la première heure

Le zèle d’un néophyte ?

Un provincial hellénisé à la Cour de Philadelphe

Épigramme pour la mort d’un enfant

Pour finir

II. Littérature d’hiérogrammates

Traduction des témoignages

Éthique de la traduction

L’inscription du conseiller

L’inscription d’Horembeb

Les inscriptions de Sesoucheri

La statue de Qous

La statue de Coptos

L’épigramme de Pétosiris

Annexe : la stèle d’Isemkhetés

Notes

III. Textes hiéroglyphiques

Vienne 20 (d’après CAA)

CGC 1230 (D’après Borchardt/Daressy)

BM 1668 (avec l’autorisation gracieuse des Trustees du British Museum)

CGC 70031 (d’après Petrie)

Pétosiris 56 (d’après Lefebvre)

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503510255-1

Philosophy and Salvation in Greek Religion

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Philosophy and Salvation in Greek Religion

Vishwa Adluri (ed), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013

Description

Ever since Vlastos’ “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers such as Parmenides and Plato without knowledge of their debt to the archaic religious traditions. Perhaps our own religious prejudices allow us to see only a “polis religion” in Greek religion, while our modern philosophical openness and emphasis on reason induce us to rehabilitate ancient philosophy by what we consider the highest standard of knowledge: proper argumentation. Yet, it is possible to see ancient philosophy as operating according to a different system of meaning, a different “logic.” Such a different sense of logic operates in myth and other narratives, where the argument is neither completely illogical nor rational in the positivist sense. The articles in this volume undertake a critical engagement with this unspoken legacy of Greek religion. The aim of the volume as a whole is to show how, beyond the formalities and fallacies of arguments, something more profound is at stake in ancient philosophy: the salvation of the philosopher-initiate.

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Table of contents

Vishwa Adluri – Philosophy, Salvation, and the Mortal Condition

Miguel Herrero de Juregui – Salvation for the Wanderer: Odysseus, the Gold Leaves, and Empedocles

Arbogast Schmitt – Self-Determination and Freedom: The Relationship of God and Man in Homer. Translated by Joydeep Bagchee

Walter Burkert – Parmenides’ Proem and Pythagoras’ Descent. Translated by Joydeep Bagchee

Alberto Bernabé – Ὁ Πλάτων παρωιδεῖ τὰ Ὀρφέως Plato’s Transposition of Orphic Netherworld Imagery

Barbara Sattler – The Eleusinian Mysteries in Pre-Platonic Thought: Metaphor, Practice and Imagery for Plato’s Symposium

Stephen Menn – Plato’s Soteriology ?

Vishwa Adluri & John Lenz – From Politics to Salvation through Philosophy: Herodotus’ Histories and Plato’s Republic

John Bussanich – Rebirth Eschatology in Plato and Plotinus

Luc Brisson – Memory and the Soul’s Destiny in Plotinus. Translated by Michael Chase

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin – Between the Two Realms: Plotinus’ Pure Soul

John Finamore – Iamblichus, Theurgy, and the Soul’s Ascent

About the Contributors

Bibliography

Index of terms

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110276381/html

Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Mystical Monotheism

A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology

John Peter Kenney, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Description

In this engaging and provocative study, John Peter Kenney examines the emergence of monotheism within Greco-Roman philosophical theology by tracing the changing character of ancient realism from Plato through Plotinus. Besides acknowledging the philosophical and theological significance of such ancient thinkers as Plutarch, Numenius, Alcinous, and Atticus, he demonstrates the central importance of Plotinus in clarifying the relation of the intelligible world to divinity. Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus’s novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge. Presenting difficult material with grace and clarity, Kenney takes a wide-ranging view of the development of ancient Platonic theology from a philosophical perspective and synthesizes familiar elements in a new way. His is a revisionist thesis with significant implications for the study of Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian thought in this period and for the history of Western religious thought in general.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

I The Foundations of Hellenic Monotheism

1 Degrees of Reality

2 Divine Ideas

3 The Emergence of Hellenic Monotheism

4 The Demiurgic Theology of Plutarch

5 Early Platonic Theism

II The Demotion of the Demiurge

1 Numenius and the Degrees of Divinity

2 The Didaskalikos of Alcinous

3 The Exemplarism of the Athenian School

4 Middle Platonic Theology

III The Mystical Monotheism of Plotinus

1 Divine Simplicity

2 Intellect and Ideas

3 Hid Divinity

Conclusion: Mystical Monotheism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.persee.fr/doc/assr_0335-5985_1996_num_96_1_1049_t1_0101_0000_2

Religion in the Ancient Greek City 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Religion in the Ancient Greek City 

Louise Bruit Zaidman , Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Paul Cartledge (trans.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Description

This book is an English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque. Its purpose is to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover first ritual and then myth, rooting the account in the practices of the classical city while also taking seriously the world of the imagination. For this edition the bibliography has been substantially revised to meet the needs of a mainly student, English-speaking readership. The book is enriched throughout by illustrations, and by quotations from original sources.

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Table of contents

List of illustrations

Author’s preface to the English translation

Translator’s introduction

List of sources

PART I – Introduction: How should we study Greek civic religion?

1 – The necessity of cultural estrangement

2 – Some fundamental notions

3 – Sources of evidence

PART II – Cult-practices

4 – Rituals

5 – Religious personnel

6 – Places of cult

7 – Rites of passage

8 – Settings of religious life

9 – Religion and political life

10 – The festival system: the Athenian case

11 – The Panhellenic cults

PART III – Systems for representing the divine

12 – Myths and mythology

13 – A polytheistic religion

14 – Forms of imaginative projection

PART IV – Envoi

15 – Concluding reflections

Appendixes

I – The classical Greek temple

II – The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/religion-in-the-ancient-greek-city/3A56C349D252A6B46555121CFCB26513

Greek Thought. A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Greek Thought

A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd (eds), Catherine Porter (trans.), New Jersey: Harvard University Press, 2000

Description

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought — investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing. Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs. In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major thinkers, and schools of thought, this work shows us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, and action. The authors evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, and philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization—and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal trait of humankind. With thirty-two pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor and vitality of the Greek intellectual adventure.

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Table of contents

Translators’ Note

Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land

Maps

Philosophy

The Philosopher

Images of the World

Myth and Knowledge

The Question of Being

Epistemology

Ethics

Politics

The Statesman As Political Actor

Inventing Politics

Utopia and the Critique of Politics

The Sage and Politics

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Schools and Sites of Learning

Observation and Research

Demonstration and the Idea of Science

Astronomy

Cosmology

Geography

Harmonics

History

Language

Logic

Mathematics

Medicine

Physics

Poetics

Rhetoric

Technology

Theology and Divination

Theories of Religion

Major Figures

Anaxagoras

Antisthenes

Archimedes

Aristotle

Democritus

Epicurus

Euclid

Galen

Heraclitus

Herodotus

Hippocrates

Parmenides

Plato

Plotinus

Plutarch

Polybius

Protagoras

Ptolemy

Pyrrhon

Socrates

Thucydides

Xenophon

Zeno

Currents of Thought

The Academy

Aristotelianism

Cynicism

Hellenism and Christianity

Hellenism and Judaism

The Milesians

Platonism

Pythagoreanism

Skepticism

Sophists

Stoicism

Chronology

Contributors

Illustration Sources

Index

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674002616

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy. An Introduction

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy

An Introduction

Stephen Clark, London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Description

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions; traditions that are now largely neglected by philosophers and scholars. This book tells the story of ‘Greek Philosophy’, paying due attention to its historical context and the contributions made by Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians and even barbarians from northern Europe. Stephen Clark provides a narrative history of the philosophical traditions that took shape over several centuries in the Mediterranean world and offers a comprehensive survey of this crucial period in the history of philosophy. The book includes a thorough historical and philosophical overview of all the key thinkers, events and ideas that characterized the period and explores in detail central themes such as the contest of gods and giants, the contrast between the reality and appearance, and the idea of the philosopher. Ideal for undergraduate students, this concise and accessible book provides a comprehensive guide to a fascinating period in the history of philosophy.

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Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Map

1. Beginnings

2. Influence from Outside

3. Inspired Thinkers

4. Travellers and Stay-at-Homes

5. Divine Plato

6. The Aristotelian Synthesis

7. Living the Philosophical Life

8. Ordinary and Supernatural Lives

9. Late Antiquity

10. An End and a Beginning

Endnotes

Recommended Reading

Works Cited

Index

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ancient-mediterranean-philosophy-9781441123596/