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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on Superstition; with Various Appendices, and a Life of Plutarchus
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Peri deisidaimonias. Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on supersition; with [a tr.], various appendices, and a life of Plutarchus [by J. Hibbert
Author: Plutarchus
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Plutarch's Cities
Author: Lucia Athanassaki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192676172
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192676172
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
Catalogues of Books for Sale by E.W. Stibbs
Author: E. W. Stibbs
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Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of Manuscripts & Printed Books of His Excellency M. John Gennadius ... Sold ... the 28th of March, 1895, and Ten Days Following ...
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames (of the New York Public Library)...
Author: Wilberforce Eames
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames ...
Author: Wilberforce Eames
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: M-P
Author: Samuel Halkett
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Catalogue of the printed books. [With] Addenda ii (-iv).
Author: University of Oxford
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis & Son (Firm)
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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