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Apologia : Florida ; De deo socratis
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ISBN: 0674997115 9780674997110 Year: 2017 Volume: 534 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Apuleius (born ca. 125 AD), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. This edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, contains Apuleius' other surviving works that are considered genuine.

Apollonius of Tyana.
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ISBN: 0674996178 9780674996175 0674996135 9780674996137 0674996143 9780674996144 Year: 2006 Volume: 16, 17 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

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Philostratus's colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana, provides historical context for that much discussed third-century portrayal of a charismatic religious teacher. Here is a new translation of the surviving letters of Apollonius, augmented and illuminated by recent discoveries. These letters reveal Apollonius's personality and his religious and philosophical ideas. New for this edition is a selection of ancient reports about Apollonius from authors such as St. Jerome and St. Augustine. Philostratus's biography was quickly caught up in the religious struggles that marked the rise of Christianity. An official in Diocletian's empire named Hierocles used it as ammunition in an anti-Christian polemic, initiating a controversy that lasted well into modern times. The reply by Eusebius, the fourth-century bishop of Caesarea, was originally included in editions of the Life of Apollonius in order to serve as a spiritual antidote and to provide cover for the publishers; today it is an essential chapter in the history of Philostratus's masterpiece.


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Between Pagan and Christian
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ISBN: 0674369521 0674369513 9780674369511 0674725204 9780674725201 9780674725201 0674725204 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Pagan and Christian uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.


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Advances in Hurricane Engineering : Learning from Our Past

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Sponsored by Applied Technology Council; Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 106 papers presented at the ATC & SEI Conference on Advances in Hurricane Engineering, held in Miami, Florida, October 24-26, 2012. When Hurricane Andrew wreaked havoc on South Florida and Louisiana 20 years ago, the engineering community learned a great deal about how powerful storms affect the built environment. These papers demonstrate the application of lessons learned to reduce losses from subsequent hurricanes and to make communities more resilient to natural hazards. Topics include: building codes; building envelope; building envelope and large structures; building roofs; flooding; infrastructure; large structures; meteorology; risk modeling; and wind loading. Structural engineers, architects, building code officials, and risk managers will gain important insights into the prevention and mitigation of damage from hurricanes and other powerful storms.

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Durant toute l’Antiquité, la question de l’origine des cités et des peuples n’a cessé d’être posée. Champ d’enquête privilégié pour les érudits anciens, elle a souvent joué aussi un rôle important dans la vie des communautés humaines, car pour une cité, le nom de son fondateur, les circonstances de sa fondation, ses relations de parenté avec d’autres cités étaient des éléments essentiels de l’image qu’elle voulait donner d’elle-même et qu’en avaient les autres. En outre, cette thématique des origines a toujours été porteuse d’implications politiques, diplomatiques ou religieuses, si bien qu’un grand nombre de légendes de fondation, loin d’être transmises sous une forme immuable, ont fait l’objet de remaniements, réinterprétations et réutilisations variables selon les époques et les circonstances. Tels sont les différents aspects que les communications rassemblées dans le présent recueil tentent d’aborder, dans le cadre d’une réflexion associant historiens, archéologues, philologues et spécialistes de littérature antique. For all of antiquity, the question of the origin of cities and peoples has been posed continuously. A foremost field of research for ancient scholars, it often played an important role in the life of human communities, as, for a city, its founder’s name, the circumstances of its foundation, its kinship with other cities were essential éléments of the image it wanted to project of itself and of the perception others had of it. Besides, this theme of the origins has always born political, diplomatic, religious implications, so that a large number of foundation legends, far from being passed on in an immutable and universally accepted form, were, to the contrary, diversely altered, interpreted and utilised by those who conveyed them. Such are the various aspects the communications gathered in this collection attempt to tackle, in the framework of a reflection that brought together historians, archaeologists, philologists, and ancient literature…

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