Craig Cooper (ed.) - Politics of Orality

Am adunat in e-biblioteca mea cateva volume din seria Mnemosyne. Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum. In afara faptului ca volumele aparute sub aceasta sigla sunt de o calitate excelenta, sunt si foarte scumpe. De aceea nu prea pot fi vazute in colectii particulare, ci mai mult in biblioteci - si mai ales in Occident.

Politics of Orality este volumul 6 dintr-o excelenta serie intitulata Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece.

• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• The Language of Heroes and the Language of Heroines: storytelling in oral traditional epic
• “Summoning Together all the People”: variant tellings of the Mwindo Epic as social and political deliberation
• Orality and Textual Criticism: the Homeric Hymns
• Orality and the Politics of Scholarship
• Written Lists of Military Personnel in Classical Athens
• Why the Athenians forgot Cleisthenes: literacy and the politics of remembrance in ancient Athens
• Lycurgus and the State Text of Tragedy
• Myth and Writing in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
• Orality and the Politics of Roman Peacemaking
• Theognis’ Sphrêgis: Aristocratic Speech and the Paradoxes of Writing
• Thucydides’ History Live: reception and politics
• From Orality to Literacy: The Moral Education of the Elite in Fourth-Century Athens
• Writing Divine Speech: Greek transliterations of Near Eastern languages in the Hellenistic East
• Fighting the Future: Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens
• Elitist Orality and the Triviality of Writing
• Neronian Oral Politics: the case of Musonius Rufus
• Oral “Agreement”, Written Contract, and the Bonds of Law at Athens
• Did the Athenian Courts Attempt to Achieve Consistency? Oral tradition and written records in the Athenian administration of justice
• Select Index

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Kate Gilliver - Caesar’s Gallic Wars

Kate Gilliver - Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC (Routledge Essential Histories), 2003.

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Background to war. Building an empire
• Warring sides. Discipline vs. spectacle
• Outbreak. The migration of the Helvetii
• The fighting. Invasion, siege and conquest
• Portrait of a soldier. Caesar’s centurions
• The world around war. The impact of the conflict
• Portrait of a civilian. Roman merchants
• How the war ended. Roman triumphs
• Conclusion and consequences. Pax Romana
• Further reading
• Index

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Svetla Slaveva - Plotinus on Number [2009]

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin - Plotinus on Number, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.

• Abbreviations
• Introduction: One by Number
• Platonic Cosmology on Plotinian Terms
• Ennead VI.6 and the Timaeus
• Origin of Multiplicity in Plotinus
• Plotinus’ Apostasis and Numenius’ Stasis
• The Universe as Degrees of Separation from the One
• Multiplicity as Number
• Surfacing from the “Neopythagorean Underground”
• Outward and Inward Direction of Multiplicity in Ennead VI.6
• Multiplicity as Effl uence and Unity
• The Number of Infi nity
• Plato’s Position
• Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Platonists
• Plotinus’ Answer
• Number and Substance
• Plotinus’ Three Hypotheses about Number in the Intelligible Realm
• Is Substantial Number Discrete and Incidental?
• The Whole Number of Beings
• Substantial and Monadic Number
• Number and the Universe
• Substantial Number and the One
• Substantial Number and Absolute Being
• Substantial Number and Intellect
• Substantial Number and Beings
• Substantial Number and the Complete
• Living Being
• Soul and Number
• The Unfi gured Figure of Soul’s Dance
• Unity of Thought and Writing
• Porphyry and the Enneads
• Ennead VI.6
• “Six Along with the Nines”
• Conclusion: In Defense of Plato
• Bibliography
• Index of Names and Subjects
• Index Locorum
  

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine [2001]

• Introduction
• Augustine
• Faith and reason
• Augustine on evil and original sin
• Predestination, Pelagianism, and foreknowledge
• Biblical interpretation
• The divine nature
• De Trinitate
• Time and creation in Augustine
• Augustine’s theory of soul
• Augustine on free will
• Augustine’s philosophy of memory
• The response to skepticism and the mechanisms of cognition
• Knowledge and illumination
• Augustine’s philosophy of language
• Augustine’s ethics
• Augustine’s political philosophy
• Augustine and medieval philosophy
• Post-medieval Augustinianism
• Bibliography
  

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Thomas Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome [2003]

Thomas K. Hubbard - Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, University of California Press, 2003.

• Translation Credits
• Preface
• Introduction
• Archaic Greek Lyric
• Greek Historical Texts
• Greek comedy
• Greek Oratory
• Greek Philosophy
• Hellenistic poetry
• Republican Rome
• Augustan Rome
• Early Imperial Rome
• Later Greco-Roman Antiquity
• Works Cited
• Index

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Gordon Kirkwood - A Short Guide to Classical Mythology

Gordon Kirkwood - A Short Guide to Classical Mythology (1995).

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Martin Levey - Babylonian Chemistry

Martin Levey, Babylonian Chemistry: A Study of Arabic and Second Millenium B.C. Perfumery, in Osiris, Vol. 12 (1956), pp. 376-389.

• Introduction:
  
• Scope of this paper
• Babylonian science
• Babylonian chemistry and sources for its study
• The perfume texts, provenance and date
• Babylonian and Arabic Perfumery:
  
• Apparatus
• Operations and methods of perfume making
• Perfume texts and Arabic chemistry:
• Fire technology
• Repetition of operations
• Objectivity of perfume texts
• Conclusions
  

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