Frederick E. Brenk Livres

Classical scholars tend to work with a narrow focus, specialising on particular subject areas. Frederick Brenk is an he is still a specialist, but, as this third volume of his collected essays makes clear, a multiple specialist, as skilled in dealing with visual materials as with texts, with epigraphy as with prosopography, with Christian writers as with pagan, with Egypt as with Greece, with style and language as with philosophy and religion. Few scholars have such wide learning, and fewer still can use it to weave together insights from so many different ways of thinking, feeling, seeing, and writing. Contents Plutarch and His Age ù Two Case Studies in Paideia ù The Rhetoric of Exaggeration in Plutarch's Erotikos ù Plutarch, Judaism, and Christianity ù Plutarch and the Egyptian Cults ù Religion under Trajan ù Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies et al. The Gymnasia at Athens in the First Century A.D. ù Motives for Self-sufficiency in the Cynics and Others ù Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life ù Eschatology in Plato's Laws and First-Century Platonism Plutarch's Allegorization of Egyptian Religion ù Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii et al. The kai su Stele in the Fitzwilliam Museum New Testament and Early Paul and the Philosophy of His Time ù Rhetoric and Progress in Virtue in Seneca and Paul ù The Areopagos Speech of Paul et al. Édouard des Places.

In the last ten years, there has been an enormous awakening of interest in Plutarch. This collection contains many stimulating and important articles from the Plutarch renaissance, especially on the interaction between divine and human worlds, and on expectations in the next life. But treated here are also a number of other challenging topics in classical Greek literature. Among them are the Near Eastern background of early Greek myth and literature, the decisive speech of Achilleus' mentor, Phoenix, in the Iliad, divine assimilations and ruler cult, the language of Menander's young men, the vision of God in Middle Platonism, blessed afterlife in the mysteries, Greek epiphanies and the Acts of the Apostles, and the revolt at Jerusalem against Antiochos Epiphanes in the light of similar cities under Hellenistic rule. Another book of Frederick E. Brenk: Clothed in Purple Light

Aus dem Inhalt: Vergil’s Golden Age and the Beginning of Empire — The Tomb of Bianor in Vergil’s Ninth Eclogue — Myth, History and Symbolic Imagery in Vergil’s Palinurus Incident — Palinurus and Polites (Aeneid, 6337-6382) — Diodoros, Appian, and the Death of Palinurus in Vergil — The Eulogy for Marcellus in Aeneid VI — A Greek Motif in the Aeneid? — Baroque Touches in Vergil’s Underworld — Consolation and Allegory at the End of Vergil’s Aeneid VI — Review of P. A. Johnston, Vergil’s Agricultural Golden Age — Articles „Salus“ and „Sancio“ from the Enciclopedia Virgiliana (in English translation) Echoes of Sappho in Catullus’ passer Poems — Lesbia’s Arguta Solea: Catullus 68.72 and Greek ligys — Arguta Solea on the Threshold: The Literary Precedents of Catullus, 68, 68-72 — Tarpeia among the Celts: Watery Romance from Simylos to Propertius — The Myth of Cephalus and Procris in Ovid’s Metamorphoses — Theme and Ideology in the Galatea and the Cyclops Story of Ovid’s Metamorphoses — Violence as Structure in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Caesar and the Evil Eye or What to Do with „Kai sy, teknon“ — The Sibyl Sings of Vesuvius — Tragic Hierosolyma: The Flavian Period, Solyma in Ashes — Indices