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• Introduction
  
• Plotinus: the Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism
  
• Plotinus's metaphysics of the One
  
• The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus
• On soul and intellect
• Essence and existence in the Enneads
• Plotinus on the nature of physical reality
• Plotinus on matter and evil
  
• Eternity and time
  
• Cognition and its object
• Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads
  
• Plotinus: body and soul
• Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus
• An ethic for the Late Antique sage
  
• Plotinus and language
• Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the first principle
• Plotinus and Christian philosophy

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Serafina Cuomo - Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity

An Overture to The Oxford Handbook. Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (review).

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Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East

Lieu Samuel - Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Mani and the Magians - CMC 137·140
• The identity of the sect
• Text and interpretation
• The setting of the encounter
• The Jews in Manichaean Literature
• Chaldaeans in Manichaean Literature
• Whose "synagogue"?
• The Leader of the Sect
• The "teaching of the fathers"
• Magic in the "Synagogue"
• Conclusion
• From Mesopotamia to the Roman East - The Diffusion of Manichaeism in the Eastern Roman Empire
• Manichaeism as a missionary religion
• The earliest missions to the Roman Empire
• Manichaeism in Roman Mesopotamia and Syria
• Manichaeism in Palestine and Arabia
• Manichacism in Egyp
• Fragments in Syriac from Oxyrhynchus and others
• The Manichaean codices from Medinet Madi
• The Cologne Mani-Codex
• The new finds at Kellis
• History of Manichaeism in Egypt
• Manichaeism in the Balkans and Asia Minor
• Fact and Fiction in the Acta Archelai
• Introduction
• Date and original language
• Charra, Carchara, Chalcar and Caschar
• The debate, the letters and the vila
• Conclusion
• "Felix conversus ex Manichaeis" . a case of mistaken identity?
• Some themes in Later Roman anti-Manichaean polemics
• Introduction
• Polemics against Mani and the Title of the Sect
• Polemics against the person of Mani
• Refutation of Mani's System
• The Problem of Evil
• Appendix: List of the main anti-Manichaean worksin Greek and Latin (3rd-6th Century)
• An early Byzantine Formula for the renunciation of Manichaeism - The Capila VII Contra Maniehaeos of . Introduction. text. translation and commentary
  
• Introduction
• The abjuration of heretical beliefs in the Late Roman Church
• The "Anathemas of Milan"
• The Latin Anathema Formulas
• The Greek Anathema Formulas
• The new text from Athos
• Conclusion
• Texts and translations of the Seven Chapters and of the Long Formula
  
• Commentary
• Appendices
• Anathemas against "latter day Manichaeans" (i.e. Paulicians) in the Long (Greek) Abjuration Formula
• The Short (Greek) Abjuration Formula
• The Milan Anathemas
• The Commonitorium Saneti Augustini
• Index of proper names
• Index of Sources

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The Light and the Darkness

Paul Mirecki & Jason BeDuhn (ed.) - The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World.

• The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its world
• The Metabolism of Salvation: Manichaean Concepts of Human Physiology
• Didymus the Blind's Knowledge of Manichaeism
• The Division of Primordial Space in Anti-Manichaean Writers' Description of the Manichaean Cosmogony
• Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichacism
• The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ismant el-Kharab and Medinet Madi)
• Reconstructing Manichaean Book Paintings through the Technique of Their Makers: The Case of The Work of Religion Scene on MIK III 4974 recto
• The Authcnticity and Doctrine of (Ps.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch
• Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Mlagic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia
• On Human Races, Semi-Human Beings and Monsters
• A Manichaean Liturgical Instruction on the Act of Almsgiving
• A Manichacan:rurkic Disputc in Runic Script
• Subject index
• Text Index

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The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Italian Renaissance Rulers

Margaret Ann Zaho - Imago Triumphalis. The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Italian Renaissance Rulers (2004)

Din acest volum, doar primele doua capitole se integreaza in segmentul de timp propus de AC:

• The History of the Roman Triumph
• Eastern Origins
• Greek Etymology
• Etruscan Influences
• The Roman Triumph
• The Triumphal Procession and Route
• Roman Triumphal Arches
• The Decoration of Triumphal Arches
• The End of an Ancient Tradition

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The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

Raffaella Cribiore - The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (2007)

• Preface
• A Note on References and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Libanius and Rhetoric in Antioch
• Schools and Sophists in the Roman East
• The Network
• Admission and Evaluation
• Teaching the Logoi
• The Long and Short Paths to Rhetoric
• After Rhetoric
• Words and Silence
• Dossiers of Students
• Length of Students’ Attendance
• Concordance of Letters in Appendix One Translated into English
• Select Bibliography
• Index Locorum
• General Index
  

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Geoffrey Horrocks - Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers.

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