Download or read book Illiterate Sophism written by M. R. Lang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illiterate Sophism is a collection of poetry and short stories written by M. R. Lang, arranged to be picked up and down whenever you want. Most of the stories are only a few pages long and longer stories are cut into sections. with six-word-stories and single paragraph stories mixed in. Fantasy, childish, and down right weird.
Download or read book Libanius the Sophist written by Raffaella Cribiore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book, Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s vast literary output—including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students—to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable figure whom John Chrystostom called “the sophist of the city." Libanius (314–ca. 393) lived at a time when Christianity was celebrating its triumph but paganism tried to resist. Although himself a pagan, Libanius cultivated friendships within Antioch’s Christian community and taught leaders of the Church including Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea. Cribiore calls him a “gray pagan” who did not share the fanaticism of the Emperor Julian. Cribiore considers the role that a major intellectual of Libanius’s caliber played in this religiously diverse society and culture. When he wrote a letter or delivered an oration, who was he addressing and what did he hope to accomplish? One thing that stands out in Libanius’s speeches is the startling amount of invective against his enemies. How common was character assassination of this sort? What was the subtext to these speeches and how would they have been received? Adapted from the Townsend Lectures that Cribiore delivered at Cornell University in 2010, this book brilliantly restores Libanius to his rightful place in the rich and culturally complex world of Late Antiquity.
Download or read book The intellect with an appendix on language written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Mental Philosophy Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Mental Philosophy written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thresholds of Illiteracy written by Abraham Acosta and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, that have frequently been deployed to distinguish between modern and archaic peoples and societies. This book is organized as a series of literary and cultural analyses of internationally recognized postcolonial narratives. It tackles a series of the most important political/aesthetic issues in Latin America that have arisen over the past thirty years or so, including indigenism, testimonio, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and migration to the United States via the U.S.–Mexican border. Through a critical examination of the “illiterate” effects and contradictions at work in these resistant narratives, the book goes beyond current theories of culture and politics to reveal radically unpredictable forms of antagonism that advance the possibility for an ever more democratic model of cultural analysis.
Download or read book Rereading the Sophists written by Susan C. Jarratt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "rereading" the sophists of fifth-century Greece, Susan C. Jarratt reinterprets classical rhetoric, with implications for current theory in rhetoric and composition. -- Provided by publisher
Download or read book Abridgment of Mental Philosophy written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people. It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All of these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.
Download or read book The Sophists written by Richard McKirahan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new way of looking at the fifth-century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a “movement,” each with his own specialty and personality as revealed through the scant surviving evidence. It provides an account of the Sophists of this period that explains the historical and social developments that led to their prominence and popularity, demonstrating the reasons for their importance and for their seeming disappearance in the fourth century BCE. Restricted to discussion of the few Sophists for whom there are surviving quotations or other texts, The Sophists avoids generalizations often found in other books. It contains accurate translations of most of the surviving material, which forms the secure possible basis for understanding the Sophists as individuals in their various roles, not only as educators but also as ambassadors and pioneers in other fields. After a general introduction, the following chapters present each of the Sophists individually, followed by three chapters that present topics treated by more than one Sophist, such as Logos, Definition and the Nomos-Phusis contrast. The final three chapters reveal the way three important intellectuals of the fourth century (Plato, his rival Isocrates and Aristotle) dealt with the Sophists. An appendix contains several longer passages or works in their entirety in translation, allowing readers to have access to the original source materials and develop their own interpretations. This thorough treatment of the fifth-century Sophists is of interest to scholars working on the subject and on ancient Greek philosophy more broadly, while also being accessible to undergraduate students and the general public interested in the topic.
Download or read book The Lives of the Sophists written by Philostratus (the Athenian) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PHILOSTRATUS AND EUNAPIUS. (a) Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus, 'the Athenian', was a Greek sophist (professor), c. A.D. 170-205, who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb Nos. 16 and 17) and Lives of the Sophists (which are really impressions of investigators alert but less fond of scientific method and discovery than of stylish presentation or things known), one part concerning some older, the other some later 'provessors'. Other extant works of this Philostratus are Letters and Gymnasticus, but the Heroicus or Heroica is apparently by another Philostratus, and the Eikones (Imagines, skilful descriptions of pictures, Loeb No. 256) were probably by two Philostrati, on being the son of Nervianus and born c. A.D. 190, the other his grandson who wrote c. AD. 300. (b) The Greek Sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in A.D. 347, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the 'mysteries' and was hostile to Christians. Lost is his historical work (covering the years A.D. 270-404) but for excerpts and the use of it made by Zosimmus, but we have his Lives of Philosophers and Sophists mainly contemporary whth himself. Eunapius is our only source of our knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the latter part of the fourth century A.D.
Download or read book Abridgement of Mental Philosophy written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Philosophy written by Thomas C. Upham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Download or read book Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of mental philosophy written by Thomas Cogswell Upham, 1799-1872 and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century by John Nichols written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
