Greece Reinvented
Title | Greece Reinvented PDF eBook |
Author | Han Lamers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 410 |
Release | 2015-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004303790 |
Greece Reinvented is the first book-length discussion of the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy, exploring why and how the Byzantine intelligentsia, displaced to Italy, adopted distinctively Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to a Roman identity.
Pyrrhonism
Title | Pyrrhonism PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Kuzminski |
Publisher | Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-03 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN | 9780739125076 |
Adrian Kuzminski argues that Pyrrhonism, an ancient Greek philosophy, can best be understood as a Western form of Buddhism. Not only is its founder, Pyrrho, reported to have traveled to India and been influenced by contacts with Indian sages, but a close comparison of ancient Buddhist and Pyrrhonian texts suggests a common philosophical practice, seeking liberation through suspension of judgment with regard to beliefs about non-evident things.
Greece’s labyrinth of language
Title | Greece’s labyrinth of language PDF eBook |
Author | Raf Van Rooy |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961102104 |
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.
The Problem of Modern Greek Identity
Title | The Problem of Modern Greek Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Georgios Arabatzis |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1443892823 |
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.
Greeks, Books and Libraries in Renaissance Venice
Title | Greeks, Books and Libraries in Renaissance Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Maria Piccione |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2020-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110577089 |
What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language book production at a time when printed books were already at a rather advanced stage of development with regards to requests, purchases and exchanges of books; copying and borrowing practices; relations among intellectuals and with institutions, and much more. Based on the investigation into selected institutional and private libraries – in particular the book collection of Gabriel Severos, guide of the Greek Confraternity in Venice – the authors present new pertinent evidence from Renaissance books and documents, discuss methodological questions, and propose innovative research perspectives for a sociocultural approach to book histories.
History of Ancient Greek Scholarship
Title | History of Ancient Greek Scholarship PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 717 |
Release | 2020-06-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004430571 |
This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of “ancient scholarship” from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been updated and rethought.
Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy
Title | Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 475 |
Release | 2017-11-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004355324 |
Inspired by Jill Kraye’s many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy and humanism by leading experts in the field.