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Dionysus and politics : constructing authority in the Graeco-Roman world
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ISBN: 9781003050995 1003050999 9781000392418 1000392414 9781000392425 1000392422 9780367480363 9780367507282 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge

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This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire.The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy.Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.


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Plutarch and his contemporaries : sharing the Roman empire
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ISBN: 9789004687295 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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"The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of rearrangements and transfigurations of inherited topics, motifs, and ideas. Reading Plutarch alongside his contemporaries brings out distinctive features of his thought and uncovers peculiarities in his use of literary and rhetorical strategies, imagery, and philosophical concepts, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the empire's culture in general, and Plutarch in particular. Contributors are: Colin Bailey Krystyna Bartol, Jeff Beneker, Laura Bottenberg, Andrea Catanzaro, Serena Citro, Maria Elena De Luna, Chiara Di Serio, Eva Falaschi, Martina Gatto, Anna Ginesti Rosell, Tomohiko Kondo, Dawn La Valle, Delfim Leao, Michiel Meeusen, Wim Nijs, Thierry Oppeneer, Pace Giovanna, Francesco Padovani, Katarzyna Pietruczuk, Geert Roskam, Richard Stoneman, Iris Sulimani, Theofanis Tsiampokalos, Laurens van der Wiel, Daniele Morrone, Fabio Tanga, Paola Volpe Cacciatore"--


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Plutarch and His Contemporaries : Sharing the Roman Empire.
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ISBN: 9004687300 Year: 2024 Publisher: Boston : BRILL,

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The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps between Plutarch and other imperial writers. By examining the Plutarchan corpus within the context of contemporary literary production, it contributes to our understanding of the empire's culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.

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Orgies of Words
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ISBN: 9783110790856 3110790858 9783110790900 9783110790979 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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"Nonnus' Paraphrasis, an epic rendition of the Fourth Gospel, offers a highly sophisticated interpretation of the Johannine text. An essential means to this end is extensive use of the imagery related to Greek, and especially Dionysiac, mysteries. Doroszewski successfully challenges the once predominant view that the mystery terminology in the poem is nothing more than rhetorical ornament. He convincingly argues for an important exegetical role Nonnus gives to the mystery terms. On the one hand, they refer to the Mystery of Christ. Jesus introduces his followers into the new dimension of life and worship that enables them to commune with God. This is portrayed as falling into Bacchic frenzy and being initiated into secret rites. On the other hand, the terminology has a polemical function, too, as Nonnus uses it to present the Judaic cult as bearing the hallmarks of pagan mysteries. As the book discusses the Paraphrasis against the background of the mystery metaphor development in antiquity, it serves as an excellent introduction to this key feature of the ancient mentality and will appeal to all interested in the culture of Imperial times, especially in Early Christianity, Patristics, Neoplatonism and Late Antique poetry"

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Mysteries, Religious, in literature --- 276 =923 NONNUS NISIBENUS --- 276 =923 NONNUS NISIBENUS Patrologie syrienne--NONNUS NISIBENUS --- 276 =923 NONNUS NISIBENUS Syrische patrologie--NONNUS NISIBENUS --- Patrologie syrienne--NONNUS NISIBENUS --- Syrische patrologie--NONNUS NISIBENUS --- Nonnus, --- Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- Passion --- In literature --- Bible. --- Jean (Book of the New Testament) --- Johanisi (Book of the New Testament) --- Johannesevangelium --- John (Book of the New Testament) --- Yohan pogŭm --- Yohane den (Book of the New Testament) --- Yūḥannā (Book of the New Testament) --- Ioganaĭ (Book of the New Testament) --- Иоганай (Book of the New Testament) --- Paraphrases --- History and criticism --- Mysteries, Religious, in literature. --- Jesus Christ. --- Jésus-Christ --- Nonnos de Panopolis, --- In literature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel (Nonnus, of Panopolis) --- Bible --- History and criticism. --- Paraphrases.


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Orgies of words : mystery terminology in the "paraphrase of St. John's gospel" by Nonnus of Panopolis
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ISBN: 3110790904 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter,

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Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte first began publication in 1925 and can claim to be one of the most tradition-rich historical book series. It presents research on the history of Christian churches and dogmas through the ages but also publishes papers on related disciplines such as archeology, history of art and literary studies. One of the series' leading features is its consistent striving to combine historical-methodical precision with systematic contextualization of each examined topic. In recent years the series has increasingly publishedstudies on themes relating to the history of Christian culture and ideas, viewed within a methodically open perspective on the history of Christianity.


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Nonnus' paraphrase between poetry, rhetoric and theology : rewriting the fourth gospel in the fifth century
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ISBN: 9789004373419 9004373411 9789004439061 9004439064 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"This book investigates the various paraphrastic techniques employed by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century CE) for his poetic version of the Gospel of John. The authors look at Nonnus' Paraphrase, the only extant poetic Greek paraphrase of the New Testament, in the light of ancient rhetorical theory while also exploring its multi-faceted relationship with poetic tradition and the theological debates of its era. The study shows how interpretation, cardinal both in ancient literary criticism and in theology, is exploited in a poem that is exegetical both from a philological and a Christian point of view and adheres, at the same time, to the literary principles of Hellenistic times and late antiquity"--

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