The children of Athena : Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD
Record details
- ISBN: 9781639365159
- ISBN: 163936515X
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Physical Description:
391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The Banquet. Introduction: Greece becoming Roman -- Scrolls, education and travel -- Philosophy and its schools -- The Historian: Polybius -- The Polymath: Posidonius -- The Geographer: Strabo -- Interlude One. The Res Gestae of Augustus and the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias. The Botanist: Dioscorides -- The Philosopher and Biographer: Plutarch -- Interlude Two. Hadrian and the patronage of Greek culture. The stoic philosopher: Epictetus -- The politician, historian and philosopher: Arian of Nicomedia -- The geographer and astronomer: Claudisu Ptolemy -- The Satirist: Lucian of Samosata -- The Medical man: Galen -- The travel guide: Pausanias -- Interlude three. City life in second-century Asia Minor: Sagalassos. The politician and orator: Dio Chrysostom -- The rhetorician: Aelius Aristides -- The politician and philanthropist: Herodes Atticus -- Interlude four. The clouds darken: The Greek world in an age of crisis. The philosopher: Plotinus -- Tge okatibuc tgeikiguabL Ckenebt if Akexabdrua -- The Biblical scholar: Origen -- Interlude five. Constantinople and the promulgation of Christian orthodoxy. The court orator: Themistius -- The last of the pagan orators: Libanius -- The neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician: Hypatia -- Afterlives -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography and notes on sources -- Picture credits -- Index. |
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Subject: | Greece History 146 B.C.-323 A.D Greece Intellectual life 146 B.C.-323 A.D |
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Statesville Main Library | 938.09 FRE (Text) | 33114018645549 | Adult New Nonfiction | Reshelving | - |