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Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Harold Edgeworth Butler, Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius, Arthur Synge Owen
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487401270
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Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Apuleius
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Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Jesús Muñoz Morcillo
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839448352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations. This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.

Author: Apuleius
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Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Andreas N. Michalopoulos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311060986X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion).

Author: Robert H. F. Carver
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199217866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.

Author: Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.

Author: Agostino Nifo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004196080
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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This books offers an annotated edition of Nifo’s De intellectu (1503), including an extensive analytical summary of the contents, as well as a chronology of Nifo’s life and works, and a full index of the chapters of this work.

Author: Simone Mollea
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111510506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to humanitas by dictionaries (roughly 'human nature', 'education and culture', 'philanthropy') are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of humanitas by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies. This book is therefore not only a lexicographical study, but pays careful attention to the wider historical and cultural contexts in which humanitas was employed. More specifically, the use of humanitas reveals the ways in which Roman authors considered themes that were at the core of their conception of culture and civilisation, such as the relationship between being learned and behaving morally, the ideas of moral nobility and clemency, the notion that a value concept can distinguish one category of men from another, or even one historical period from another.