... of those years. Each examines the responsibility of counsellors to speak truth plainly to power, and they each, through analogy and example, edge closer towards a dangerous discussion of the role of counsel in the court of a tyrant. Berthelet Thomas counsel Diogenes Laertus Dionysius of Sicily Elyot...

...According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romulus divided up the territory of Rome equally among the citizens. He makes that point at the start of a lengthy digression on Romulus' constitutional arrangements, inserted into the narrative between the foundation and the rape of the Sabines...

... George Leo I pope Marcian Roman emperor Paschasinus of Lilybaeum Victorius of Aquitaine Ambrose of Milan Councils Cyril of Alexandria patriarch Dionysius Exiguus Leo monk Bede the Venerable Columbanus saint Gregory the Great pope Honorius I pope Sulpicius Severus Willibrord saint Cummian...

... from Process theology and from Jürgen Moltmann (or rather one work of Moltmann, since the chapter shall focus on The Crucified God; this should not be taken to imply that what it says here would apply to his later work). By juxtaposing these with the text from Dionysius the Areopagite...

... of the Holy Spirit and Mary the mother of God, and anathematised any who holds a different doctrine whether at Chalcedon or any other synod. This chapter also discusses the Acacian schisms between East and West, Dionysius and Greek collections of canons, accession of Emperor Justinian and his determination...

... between stanzas. A case is made for moving beyond a mode of reading that sees rhythmical features exclusively as subordinated to semantic meaning. Dionysius of Halicarnassus intervals rhythm Sisyphus affectivity rhythmical enactment metre Philodemus Aristides Quintilianus chorus singing...

... rhythm Dionysius of Halicarnassus singing Westphal R Aristotle Aristoxenus appearances Euripides Aeschylus Pindar Crates of Malos lyre Webern A appearances Cicero Crates Dionysius of Halicarnassus intervals rhythm Longinus Philodemus sublimity voice Is it her singing that enchants...

...What are the religious justifications for the historical development and maintenance of hierarchy as the model of ecclesiastical organization in Orthodox Christianity? Beginning with its Christian coinage by Dionysius the Areopagite in the early sixth century, this book explores...

... theories of emotion. In discussing head and heart, this essay focuses on Apollo, the Greek god of reason, and Dionysius, son of Zeus and Bacchus. The essay also looks at representative key historical figures and their theories, namely, Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine as well as Thomas Aquinas, Rene...

... with the second person of the Trinity, and stated that ‘one of the Trinity suffered in the flesh’. Neo-Chalcedonian Christology was incorporated into the Fifth Ecumenical Council held at Constantinople in 553. Neo-Chalcedonianism developed an Orthodox Theopaschism and was influenced by Dionysius the Areopagite’s...

...This chapter provides a background on the life and times of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, who was was al-Maʾmun's contemporary and a client of his general ʿAbd Allah ibn Tahir. It details how ʿAbd Allah supported Dionysius to retain the patriarchate in the teeth of the complaints of rivals. It also talks...

... of contemporary patriarchs and bishops using models from the past. It also examines the layered narratives that Dionysius provided for the period of 'anarchy' and then turns to Dionysius' depiction of his own generation. The chapter highlights the shift in the recruitment of patriarchs from Qartmin to other...

...This essay examines the content of the Dionysian Corpus in order to demonstrate the unity of its two fundamental characters: Christian and Neoplatonic. The essay takes as its cornerstone the Neoplatonic, metaphysical cycle of causality, in its Proclean form, using it to show how Dionysius...

...The theologian, philosopher, and bishop John of Scythopolis wrote a prologue and scholia to the four treatises and ten letters of Dionysius Areopagita. With this, he was the first scholiast of the Dionysian writings, and his efforts put him at the beginning of a long succession of high-profile...

.... Scanlon (eds), God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press), 20–42. Rubenstein, Mary-Jane ( 2008 ), ‘Dionysius, Derrida, and the Critique of “Ontotheology” ’, Modern Theology 24:4, 725–741. 1. Although Derrida’s essay ‘Sauf le nom...

...The death of the first king, Romulus the founder, constituted a problem on many levels for the Romans. Dionysius of Halicarnassus spoke of ‘many different stories’, various accounts on which there were evidently no agreement. According to one of these – a version Dionysius considered ‘rather...

...The evolution of Rome's calendar is a major feature of the city's history in late antiquity, and demonstrates that there was no sharp break but, on the contrary, a slow modification. Its chief characteristic is the gradual superimposition of Christian time on pagan time. Until Dionysius Exiguus...

... Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Slavoj Zizek) who engage negative theology from a postmodern perspective. failure political theology apophatic mysticism Plato Derrida Jacques relation Dionysius Eckhart Meister neoplatonism ontotheology Plotinus community groundlessness Malabou Catherine Enneads...

...This chapter formalizes the irreducibility of difference in the constitution of the political with a central insight of mysticism. By way of a powerful rereading of Pseudo-Dionysius and Meister Eckart, it elaborates the systematic parallel between the chapter's own assessment of the meaning...

... tradition, such as Demetrius’s On Style and Longinus’s On the Sublime, all of whom engage Homer. These writers use animals to show how language can enliven the senses—especially vision and hearing, rhetoric’s two leading senses, according to Quintilian. The commentary from Demetrius, Longinus, and Dionysius...