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Book The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

Download or read book The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Phraseological English Latin Dictionary

Download or read book A Phraseological English Latin Dictionary written by Charles Duke Yonge and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trichier

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  • Author : Alessandra Ceretto
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 136509796X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Trichier written by Alessandra Ceretto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apuleius

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  • Author : Apuleius
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780198152927
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Apuleius written by Apuleius and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apologia, Apuleius' self-defence against a charge of magic delivered in North Africa in A.D. 158-9, has been well described as 'a masterpiece of the Second Sophistic'. It is a brilliant, lively, and colourful piece and is the only Latin forensic oration preserved from the second century A.D., providing important evidence for contemporary North African life.

Book Florida

Download or read book Florida written by Apuleius and published by Brill. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been growing interest in Apuleius' works. Notably his famous novel Metamorphoses and his speeches are increasingly appreciated as the special products of a Second Sophist writing in Latin. In the Florida, a collection of 23 excerpts of speeches, we have a unique example of Roman demonstrative rhetoric. In the text we see Apuleius performing before great audiences, and even in the theatre of Carthage. He delivers speeches on topics as diverse as the eye of the eagle, the inventions of Hippias, or the distinctive features of the parrot. The speaker's wide literary talents, his education and health, and his excellent relations with Carthage and the audience at large, are all put on display with manifest pride. This makes the Florida an indispensable text for anyone interested in second century Latin literature, Second Sophistic, culture and education in Roman Africa, or the author Apuleius. A modern commentary on this brilliant collection has been a desideratum in Apuleian scholarship for a long time. Vincent Hunink has now edited the Florida with an extensive English commentary, in which the literary and rhetorical features of the text are highlighted. Particular attention is paid to the strategies of the speaker and to his exquisite, extravagant style, full of rare or newly coined words and richly adorned with effects of sound and rhythm. Each of the 23 fragments is given a separate introduction, followed by a detailed commentary. The new edition enables readers to gain a better understanding of Apuleius as the great sophist and showman that he was. The volume contains an introduction, a Latin text (based on Helm's Teubner text, but with numerous returns to the text of the manuscripts), a commentary (150 pages), bibliography and indices.

Book Arithmetical Tables

Download or read book Arithmetical Tables written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An English Greek Lexicon

Download or read book An English Greek Lexicon written by Charles Duke Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Accidence  Or  First Rudiments of the Latin Tongue

Download or read book The Accidence Or First Rudiments of the Latin Tongue written by Charles Duke Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thesaurus linguae Latinae  pt  2  sectio 2  Primaeuus pyxodes

Download or read book Thesaurus linguae Latinae pt 2 sectio 2 Primaeuus pyxodes written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supernatural Agents

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  • Author : Iikka Pyysiainen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-27
  • ISBN : 019970175X
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Supernatural Agents written by Iikka Pyysiainen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiäinen shows how this methodology can profitably be used in the comparative study of beliefs about superhuman agents. He begins by developing a theoretical outline of the basic, modular architecture of the human mind and especially the human capacity to understand agency. He then goes on to discuss examples of supernatural agency in detail, arguing that the human ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others forms the basis of conceptions of supernatural agents and of such social cognition in which supernatural agents are postulated as interested parties in social life. Beliefs about supernatural agency are natural, says Pyysiäinen, in the sense that such concepts are used in an intuitive and automatic fashion. Two dots and a straight line below them automatically trigger the idea of a face, for example. Given that the mind consists of a host of such modular mechanisms, certain kinds of beliefs will always have a selective advantage over others. Abstract theological concepts are usually elaborate versions of such simpler and more contagious folk conceptions. Pyysiäinen uses ethnographical and survey materials as well as doctrinal treatises to show that there are certain recurrent patterns in beliefs about supernatural agents both at the level of folk-religion and of formal theology.

Book De Pallio

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  • Author : Vincent Hunink
  • Publisher : Brill
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book De Pallio written by Vincent Hunink and published by Brill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Pallio is one of the strangest and perhaps most difficult texts ever written in Latin. In this speech, presented before a live audience in Carthage around 200 AD, Tertullian defends his radical choice to drop the Roman toga and take up the pallium of philosophers and christians. This theme may seem innocently simple, but it has been elaborated with impressive rhetorical pyrotechnics, couched in deliberately artificial language. And is this speech profoundly christian or shamefully pagan? A work of youth or of old age? Is it a serious apology or satire? Tertullian s De Pallio has puzzled scholars for generations, yet it has often been neglected or left aside. In this new edition the text is presented with a new English translation and a full commentary, the first one in English. Much attention is paid to the interpretation of the speaker s often obscure words. In addition, the book puts the speech into the context of Latin Second Sophistic. De Pallio emerges as a fascinating text that stands midway between non-christian and christian literature.

Book Thesaurus linguae Latinae  pt  2  fasc  1  R rarus

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