Menschliche Gemeinschaft und göttliche Ordnung: Die Borystenes-Rede. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und mit interpretierenden Essays versehen von H.-G. Nesselrath, B. Bäbler, M. Forschner und A. de Jong. - DION von PRUSA, (DIO CHRYSOSTOMUS),
die Borysthenes-Rede
KORTE INHOUD
'The declaired aims of the series to which this volume belongs are: To bring relatively neglected texts of the first four centuries A.D., bearing on religion and thics, to the attention of an interested public; to expound them without superstitious regard for disciplinary boundaries; and, for each, to catch its distinctive flavour (...). A general introduction is followed by a text with facing translation, a set of notes keyed to the translation, and a series of essays by different hands, with indexes and bibliography to conclude. It is a neat formula (very tidily presented), and Dio Chrysostom's 'Borysthenitikos' (Or. 36) is an excellent choice for this kind of treatment. In an epideictic speech, which is also a first-person narrated dialogue, Dio tells of a visit he made to the remote Greek frontier town of Borysthenes (Olbia) on the north shores of the Black Sea, and of the instruction he there gave its inhabitants on the subject of the true (human and cosmic) city. This is among the most sophisticated lit...
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2003 Uitgever: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 207 paginas ISBN-10: 3534155726 ISBN-13: 9783534155729Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Darmstadt, 2003. 207p. Hard bound. Series: Sapere, Band VI. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: DION von PRUSA, (DIO CHRYSOSTOMUS),] [Uitgever: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Menschliche Gemeinschaft und göttliche Ordnung: Die Borystenes-Rede. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und mit interpretierenden Essays versehen von H.-G. Nesselrath, B. Bäbler, M. Forschner und A. de Jong.]
