Alcune riflessioni sull' ἐνάργεıα dall' Ars rhetorica di Pseudo-Dionigi di Alicarnasso

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-353
Author(s):  
Francesco Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rhetorical Texts

Many modern scholars have studied in detail the phenomenon of vividness (gr. ἐνάργεıα; lat. evidentia) in ancient rhetorical texts; however, they have neglected to examine two important testimonies included in an Ars rhetorica ascribed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, but in fact to be ascribed to an anonymous rhetorician who probably lived in the third century AD. In these two passages the anonymous rhetorician faces some issues concerning the stylistic evidence that have not been previously studied. He analyzes the relationship between the vividness of the text and the use of everyday language, aimed to enhance realistic effects of discourse. This paper aims to present a detailed analysis of the comments offered by the anonymous rhetorician, that will help to define some peculiar aspects of stylistic vividness of the language in discourse.

Secularization and States of Modernity

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrance G. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Extensive secularization is frequently held to be a necessary condition for political modernity. The author argues that the relationship between religion and the modern state is considerably more complex than this general proposition suggests. It is necessary to specify particular ideological models of the modern state, since these differ significantly from one another; and it is necessary to specify particular religions in their contemporary manifestations, since these also differ in important ways. A detailed analysis of this type suggests that there is no general incompatibility between the main religions of the third world and widely shared, nonideological features of political modernity. Specific religions are shown to be incompatible with some specific forms of the modern state, while presenting no significant obstacle to other models of political modernity.

scholarly journals Examination of the View of John Burton Concerning the Relationship between Abrogation and Collection of the Qurʾān

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Hamed Purrostami
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The British Qurʾānic researcher, John Burton, believes that the extant Qurʾān was organised and approved by the Prophet of Islam himself. The role of the Prophet of Islam in collection and promulgation of the Qurʾān was negated in favour of the concept of abrogation. Abrogation of both wording and ruling and abrogation of wording, but not of ruling are ideas fabricated by Muslim jurists attempting to base their juristic decrees on the Qurʾān even though the Qurʾānic text lacked any reference to such decrees. If the Prophet of Islam had, in fact, edited, checked, and promulgated the Qurʾānic document, jurists could no longer speak of such omissions or abrogations of texts in the extant Qurʾān. Their solution was to falsify traditions in order to exclude the Prophet of Islam from the history of collection of the Qurʾānic text, suspending such collection until after his death. John Burton’s treatment of the relationship between abrogation and collection of the Qurʾān demonstrates the rigour of his research in Qurʾānic and Islamic sources. On the basis of his book, traditions dealing with collection of the Qurʾān developed in the third century AH. One thing he did not consider was whether historical evidence confirms his depiction of the development of these traditions.

P. Herennius Dexippus: The Greek World and the Third-Century Invasions

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 12-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fergus Millar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek World

The legend of the Scythians and the books of Athens, with Petrus Patricius' comments on it, raises precisely the most crucial question about the culture and society of later Antiquity: what was the relationship between the all-pervasive literary culture of the time, with its obsessive and apparently sterile fascination with the classical past, and men's conduct in the world ? The question cannot of course be answered. If we wished to stress the positive and vital aspects of Imperial Greek culture, we could partly avoid answering it by concentrating on a few figures of real intellectual stature in the second to early fourth centuries, and thereby pointing to a number of fields in which the Greek Renaissance saw significant, sometimes revolutionary, progress. Ptolemy, Galen, Diophantus, Origen, Plotinus, Porphyry and Eusebius all in their different ways marked an epoch in the intellectual history of Europe. Even a man of much lesser originality, Cassius Dio, provided the Byzantine world with its definitive account of the history of Rome. But we can also try, if not to answer the question properly, at least to raise some themes directly relevant to it.

Placing Berlin in the Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Phil Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter presents the third element fundamental to an overall picture: the music itself, with specific focus on the relationship between music, text, and the city. The chapter begins with a wider discussion of music’s role in sounding urban geographies. This is then set against the indeterminacy and ambiguities of “placing” klezmer music—a result of mid-twentieth-century rupture, subsequent postwar cultural submergence, and the transnationalism of its contemporary revival. The main body of the chapter is devoted to the specific ways that the city of Berlin is articulated through its klezmer music. In order to do this, the chapter takes as its starting point sociologist Adam Krims’s flexible concept of “urban ethos,” applying this for the first time to the processes of traditional music. Through detailed analysis of a series of musical examples, it shows the important ways in which the city of Berlin is made meaningful in its klezmer music—how exactly, through both music and text, the city functions as a significant musical-semantic unit. The musicians discussed include ?Shmaltz!, Daniel Kahn, and Knoblauch Klezmer Band, and the analysis is supported by detailed transcriptions and interview material. Throughout the chapter and through the work of these different artists, certain themes reappear—themes particularly pertinent to Berlin and Jewish musical production. These include notions of escape, borders, and transgression and the dialogue between visible and hidden histories. The chapter also uses David Kaminsky’s theorization of the “New Old Europe Sound” to question and problematize some of the urban expressions discussed.

The Goodness of Death in Oedipus at Colonus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco V. Trivigno
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oedipus At Colonus

In Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus, the third choral ode presents a dark and pessimistic view of human life, whereby it is best never to have been born and second best to die young. This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the pessimistic position advocated by the chorus, the core of which is an endorsement of the goodness of death. Their conclusion rests on two premises: a quantitative account of the amount of pain a typical human life contains and a narrative account of the life trajectory of a typical human life. After laying out the chorus’s position, the chapter assesses their view and situates it within recent philosophical debates in two areas: on the nature and value of death and on the relationship between well-being and time. In the end, the life of Oedipus, as presented in the tragedy, exemplifies the chorus’s dark perspective.

The Character of the Gallienic Renaissance

1943 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gervase Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Acute Phase ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
Imperial Portraiture ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

It is at least a tenable hypothesis that the acute phase of transition from classical to post-classic culture lies in the third century A.D. rather than in the fifth. The confused and tangled epoch between the accession of Septimius Severus and the accession of Diocletian seems either to foreshadow or to shape the future both for the Western Provinces and for the East. So much that had marked the civilisation of the Antonines, the sense of gravitas and the restraint of form, the tranquil acceptance of the interplay of individual privilege and obligation within a social structure conceived as effortlessly stable, the solid bourgeois standard of what was perhaps essentially a small-town culture, went down in the chaos of an economic collapse. The emergence of Neo-Platonism, the creation of the new conventions in Imperial portraiture and the triumph of the cult of Sol Invictus all seem to symbolise a change in the conception of the functions of personality and of the relationship of man with the Divine and of man with men.

Imaging the Golden Age: the coinage of Antoninus Pius

2013 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 211-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Rowan
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
Quantitative Understanding ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Imperial Family ◽  
Broad Understanding

Given that few ancient accounts of the reign of Antoninus Pius survive from antiquity, other monuments, in particular coinage, become important in reconstructing his reign. In this article coin hoards are used to reconstruct a quantitative understanding of Pius's numismatic imagery. It is clear from the results that the three different coin metals (gold, silver and aes) differed in their messages: while gold coinage emphasized the imperial family and the concept of pietas, silver and aes coinage focused on the emperor's concern for the grain supply (annona). This broad understanding of Pius's numismatic image is supplemented by more detailed analysis of coin iconography in particular years. The liberalitas and Britannia series of Pius are explored in depth. The study highlights coinage's role as one imperial monument among many, contributing to the communication of imperial ideologies. It is clear that the image of Pius as a virtuous emperor ruling in a ‘Golden Age’ was one cultivated by the imperial bureaucracy, and so it is not surprising that the concept features in the preserved texts. The long-term impact of Pius's coinage is also considered. In the absence of significant quantities of aes coinage struck by the Severans, the coinage of Pius continued to be of importance in many regions throughout the third century, conveying impressions of Empire among users well after the emperor's death.

Armillae

1951 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
A. Rumpf
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ◽  
Romantic Novel ◽  
I 11

Every schoolboy knows the legend of Tarpeia, who betrayed the Capitol to the Sabines. She demanded what they carried on their left arms: quod vulgo Sabini aureas armillas magni ponderis brachio laevo … habuerint (Livy, I, II). The enemy pressed in and treacherously fulfilled their ambiguous promise by throwing their shields on her instead of the golden ornaments and so killed her. In later years the antiquarian remembers the story when before the Mons Tarpeius in Rome. The historian justifiably disregards the tradition. The mythologist is interested in parallels from Greek or folk-lore. The archaeologist is only concerned when dealing with the denarii of L. Titurius Sabinus or of P. Petronius Turpilianus with the representation of Tarpeia dying under the shields.At the date of these coins, first century A.D., the story, told most fully in Livy I, 11, Dionysius of Halicarnassus II, 38, and Plutarch, Romulus, 17, was naturally well known. Its oldest form is more important than its alteration to serve Roman patriotism or the desire for a romantic novel. According to Dionysius, who enters most carefully into the question of sources, it was already noted by Q. Fabius Pictor and L. Cincius Alimentus, and was therefore current in the last half of the third century B.C.

The Poetics of Nature in Ossian and Staël

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-252
Author(s):  
Tili Boon Cuillé
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
James Macpherson ◽  
The North ◽  
The Relationship

France’s frame of reference shifted northward when James Macpherson went in search of the Scots national epic, returning with poems attributed to the third-century bard Ossian. Though denounced as a hoax, Macpherson’s reconstruction of a lost epic from surviving fragments has since been compared to scientific endeavors such as geology and cartography. Chapter 4 explores Macpherson’s use of similes interrelating the natural and the spiritual realms and the relationship between melancholy and memory in the epics before turning to their favorable French reception. Both Napoleon and Germaine de Staël embraced France’s northern heritage, hailing Ossian as the new Homer. Privileging northern melancholy over southern enthusiasm, Staël looked to the philosophical poetry of the north as the source of French spiritual regeneration. Ironically, anxieties about the epics’ authenticity led to the establishment of the Académie Celtique and the science of folklore.

Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Third ◽  
Byzantine Era ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Early Byzantine

This volume sheds new light on the evolution of Greek epigram from the Hellenistic up to the early Byzantine era. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors but with the complexities of epigram as a genre; with the dynamics of poetic imitation and competition, as reflected in the work of epigrammatists who belong to the same or different anthologies and in the editorial activities of the poets who edited and created those anthologies; with the absorption and adaptation of earlier poetry in epigram; with the cross-fertilization between inscribed and literary epigram; with the dynamics of the relationship between epigram and its literary, sociopolitical, and cultural background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE; with its interaction with the visual arts and with Latin poetry; with the activities of late antique compilers who have generated the selections that survive nowadays. The chapters in this collection do not seek to offer a single comprehensive overview of epigram but individually and collectively demonstrate its remarkable richness and diversity. In the process they help to explain the fascination that epigram exercised, both in the ancient world and in subsequent ages, and contribute to the growing body of research on this significant and versatile poetic form.

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