Julian (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Julian (Routledge Revivals) write by Polymnia Athanassiadi. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Julian (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Julian: An Intellectual Biography, first published in 1981, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of Julian’s intellectual development against the background of philosophy and religion in the late Roman Empire. Professor Polymnia Athanassiadi tells the story of Julian’s transformation from a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a capable general and an audacious social reformer. However, his character was fraught with a great many contradictions, tensions and inconsistencies: he could be sensitive and intelligent, but also uncontrollably spontaneous and subject to alternating fits of considerable self-pity and self-delusion. Athanassiadi traces the Emperor Julian’s responses to personal and public challenges, and dwells on the conflicts that each weighty choice imposed on him. This analysis of Julian’s character and of all the issues that confronted him as an emperor, intellectual and mystic is based largely on contemporary evidence, with particular emphasis on the extensive writings of the man himself.
The Problem of Modern Greek Identity
The Problem of Modern Greek Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Problem of Modern Greek Identity write by Georgios Arabatzis. This book was released on 2016-04-26. The Problem of Modern Greek Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What is Modern Greece, apart from and beyond the bulk of information that one would find in an encyclopaedia and the established stereotypes? This volume delves into the timely nature of these questions and provides answers not by referring to often-cited classical Antiquity, nor by treating Greece as merely and exclusively a modern nation-state. Rather, it approaches the subject in a kaleidoscopic way, by tracing the line from the Byzantine Empire to Modern Greek culture, society, philosophy, literature and politics. In presenting the diverse and certainly non-dominant approaches of a multitude of Greek scholars, it provides new insights into a diachronic problem, and will encourage new arguments and counterarguments. Despite commonly held views among Greek intelligentsia or the worldwide community, Modern Greek identity remains an open question – and wound.
Origen Against Plato
Origen Against Plato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origen Against Plato write by Mark Julian Edwards. This book was released on 2019-09-30. Origen Against Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Cover"--"Title"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1 Origen among Christians, Jews and Gnostics" -- "Christian and Jew" -- "The Church in Alexandria" -- "Christian Heterodoxy in Alexandria" -- "Christological Considerations" -- "Concluding Remarks on Origen" -- "Chapter 2 The God of Origen and the Gods of Plato" -- "Platonism and the Name of God" -- "Studying Philosophy in Alexandria" -- "God, Philosophy and Revelation" -- "The Divine Creator" -- "Christ as Logos" -- "The Trinity, Ousia and Hypostasis" -- "Chapter 3 The Doctrine of the Soul in Origen" -- "Did Origen Believe in the Pre-existence of the Soul?" -- "Interlude: the Pre-existence of the Soul of Christ" -- "The Pre-existent Soul: does On First Principles Contradict Itself?" -- "A Pilgrimage of Souls" -- "Image, Likeness and the Fashioning of Saints" -- "Eschatology and Mysticism" -- "Chapter 4 The Interpretation of Scripture" -- "Notes Toward a Definition of Allegory" -- "Allegory and the Philosophers" -- "The Alexandrian Tradition" -- "Origen and the Word of God" -- "The Mystery of Christian Maturation" -- "Mysticism, Platonism, Jewish Literalism" -- "Word and Sacrament" -- "Objections and Replies" -- "Conclusion" -- "Bibliography
Julian
Julian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Julian write by Polymnia Athanassiadi. This book was released on 1992. Julian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the transformation of a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a successful general and an audacious social reformer. The author traces the sequence of the Emperor Julian's responses to inner and outward challenges and considers the tensions and conflicts each new choice created for him.
Shelley
Shelley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shelley write by Michael O'Neill. This book was released on 2014-09-19. Shelley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Attacked by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis, Shelley's poetry has, over the last few decades, enjoyed a revival of critical interest. His radical politics and arrestingly original poetic strategies have been studied from a variety of perspectives - formalist, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist and others. Of all the Romantics, Shelly has benefited most from the so-called 'theoretical revolution', as is borne out by the wide range of recent critical work represented in this volume. The 134 essays selected analyse many of Shelley's finest poems, including Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais and The Triumph of Life. Michael O'Neill's informed Introduction explores the contours of this debate. Detailed headnotes to the individual essays, explanations of difficult terms, and a further reading section provide invaluable guides to the reader. This collection illuminates the enduring and contemporary significance of the work of a major poet.
