... exposition, and providing much valuable information about the teaching of the main Hellenistic philosophical schools, especially the Stoics. They argue that the perfect human life, or complete human well-being, that of the 'wise man', is unaffected by physical and mental distress or extremes of emotion...

... Pantheios, priest of Athena Lindia in 27 bc, I.Lindos 378 This chapter considers the aftermath of the Rhodian synoecism and the historical developments of the new social and political creation of Rhodes throughout the Hellenistic period. It does this first by focusing...

...The conclusion reflects on the value of local religious studies, and points to several themes that have emerged from the book that have a bearing on our broader understanding of Greek and Hellenistic religion. In turn, it considers how Rhodian religion informs us on the following themes: ‘polis...

... other documents are reconsidered in the context of the emergence of Rhodes and Rome as imperial powers in the early Hellenistic period. Anthologia Palatina 16 6 Anonymous Suda s v Διονύσιος Μουσωνίου Demetrius Poliorcetes Dorian dialect Dorians Alcaeus Messenius Gow–Page HE I κοιρανία koiranía...

... Shema 19 16 22 27 28 12–26 3 6 3 8 James Epistle of speech 7 9 5 11 15 11–20 21 15 1 13–15 1 19 1 20 3 9–12 providence 1 27 3 1–8 2 1–6 1 2–4 testing Ben Sira Hellenistic Reform Torah almsgiving proper speech temptation forgiveness Jesus Letter of James women In Matthew’s...

...This chapter examines the democracy of classical Athens. It shows the remarkable power of a citizenry to restrict overweening individuality in its ceremonial life, but also shows the lingering potential for infatuation with kingly charisma. This can be seen in abundance in the broader Hellenistic...

...This piece was the first to discuss the relation of a new papyrus to Ovid's Metamorphoses. The papyrus exhibits a sequence of unjoined elegiac accounts of metamorphoses; the individual accounts are shown to have been relatively short. The work is argued to be probably Hellenistic...

...This chapter explores a variety of sources to provide a philosophical background of Origen and discusses the changes in astronomy during the Hellenistic age. During this age, great strides were made in astronomy. In the philosophical schoolrooms, there was a broad consensus on the nature...

... retribution moral improvement Hellenistic ethics In this chapter I argue that Epicurus had a notion of moral responsibility that is based on the agent’s causal responsibility, as opposed to the agent’s ability to act or choose otherwise; and that Epicurus considered it a necessary condition for praising...

...This chapter will consider Galen’s engagement with the most significant Hellenistic doctors and sects in turn (Herophileans, Erasistrateans, Asclepiadeans, Pneumatists, and Empiricists), showing how the continuing influence of Hellenistic medicine, especially through contemporary disputes, shaped...

... the Hellenistic Period. Archaeology often remains laconic, but iconographic sources attest to one or two stories in elite domestic contexts at least since the early New Kingdom. The chapter defines in detail a particular form of habitat of the tower house of the Ptolemaic Period and the specific urban...

... as a read and interpreted text. Considering how texts are heard, read, performed, and experienced further builds a path between philology and philosophical hermeneutics. Continued integration of the contributions of literature and imagination during the Hellenistic period is necessary to overcome biases...

... of Hellenistic poetry, in which the Hellenistic poets cross the form of the 'grand' genres, especially the hexameter of epic. It also mentions the humorous clash of content and form in Theokritos' fourth and fifth Idylls, where country folk pass the time of day or obscenely abuse one another...

... of Achilles Hellenistic epigram the Elder Philostratus’ Imagines The Greek term ecphrasis (ἔκφρασις) is attested from around the first century AD onward. Etymologically, the word refers to an act of “speaking out” (ek-phrazein), above all within...

... Hellenistic period. The chapter concludes with a cautious assessment of the proposition that the Torah came to be widely known to the masses and regarded as authoritative law only in the Late Hellenistic period, following the cataclysmic events surrounding the Hasmonean revolt toward the middle of the second...

...Comedy Greek Diphilus Philemon festivals Greek Menander Hellenistic period Roman period dramatic production dramatic festivals New Comedy Philemon Diphilus post-Menandrian comedy Benjamin Millis In the latter part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first...

... subjective narration, a combination of irony, preciosity, and a learned allusive style. The elegiac collection allows for the elaboration of a distinct subject position that is not only unprecedented in Hellenistic elegy but also unique to this period and genre of Latin literature. An examination of Catullus...

... Hellenistic kingdoms are described. It is stated that the technical texts from the Roman Empire have to be seen not only as providing information, but also as constructing a certain way of knowledge, and a certain identity for their authors. The technical texts from antiquity are then addressed...

... training that Ovid and his fellow Romans had undertaken, an experience that encouraged a taste for memorable turns of phrase. The debt to Hellenistic literature, Callimachus in particular, is especially clear when Ovid returns to the format, probably at the end of his career: the ‘Double Heroides...

... and social and religious developments from the geometric period, through the Hellenistic period and into the Roman period in Greece. Beaumont L A Denoyelle M Golden M Kaltsas N Langdon S Lee M M Geometric period art ancient Greece Greece 700 BC–300 AD representations of children Hirschfield Painter...