Aristeas studies i: “the seven banquets”
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11 May 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, a general and comprehensive treatment of the political thought of ancient Greece and Rome is presented, starting with Homer and ending in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order.
Abstract: This book, first published in 2000, is a general and comprehensive treatment of the political thought of ancient Greece and Rome. It begins with Homer and ends in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order. In between come studies of Plato, Aristotle and a host of other major and minor thinkers - poets, historians, philosophers - whose individuality is brought out by extensive quotation. The international team of distinguished scholars assembled by the editors includes historians of law, politics, culture and religion, and also philosophers. Some chapters focus mostly on the ancient context of the ideas they are examining, while others explore these ideas as systems of thought which resonate with modern or perennial concerns. This clearly written volume will long remain an accessible and authoritative guide to Greek and Roman thinking about government and community.
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01 Sep 1984
TL;DR: The legacy of Hellenistic kingship lived on in the Roman Empire, its ideology and its institutions, both secular and religious alike, now adapted to the requirements of a universal monarchy.
Abstract: Within twenty years of Alexander's death his empire had split into separate states, whose rulers had taken the title of king. The new kings were forceful and ambitious men who relied on their armies and mostly ruled in lands where monarchy was traditional. The new monarchies presented Greeks with ideological problems. Wherever they lived, they had to adjust to a dominant royal power and to find an acceptable place for monarchy within their political philosophy. It has been widely argued that the Antigonid monarchy in Macedonia differed in important respects from monarchy in the other kingdoms. Hellenistic monarchy was closely associated with religion and the gods. More varied in both its form and its implications is the religious practice commonly known as ruler-cult. The legacy of Hellenistic kingship lived on in the Roman Empire, its ideology and its institutions, secular and religious alike, now adapted to the requirements of a universal monarchy.
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09 Apr 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the letter of Aristeas between history and myth has been used as a metaphor for the Hebrew Diaspora in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Septuagint between Jews and Christians.
Abstract: Introduction 1. The Letter of Aristeas between History and Myth 2. Going Greek: Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Alexandria 3. The Jewish Diaspora in Graeco-Roman Antiquity 4. Staying Jewish: Language and Identity in the Greek Bible 5. Themes of Power and Subversion in the Greek Bible 6. The Uses of Scripture in Hellenistic Judaism 7. Scripture in Action: Parallels and Myths 8. The Bible among Greeks and Romans 9. The Septuagint between Jews and Christians
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...Jan Assmann reminds us that the translatability of the names of deities was a widespread and important principle in ancient polytheism.27 More specifically, however, there are echoes here of Herodotus recounting the names of the Egyptian 26 For example, Zuntz 1959 and Murray 1975....
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01 Sep 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the economic activities and interactions of Hellenistic world, and the role of the kings in creating the parameters of society, and describe regional diversities and the transformation of the polis as a focus of social life.
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the economic activities and interactions of Hellenistic world, and the role of the kings in creating the parameters of society. It describes regional diversities and the transformation of the polis as a focus of social life. The most basic demographic facts are unknown, for no reliable picture can be drawn of population figures in most areas, or of changes in them. Piracy provide a specific example of how the phrase Hellenistic Society is a convenient but misleading label for a set of developing and ad hoc solutions to the very various immediate or longer-term needs and problems which had to be solved within certain boundary conditions by governments and individuals. The royal land policy impinges directly on the greatest cultural phenomenon of the Hellenistic world, the transformation and revitalization of the Greek polis in areas where it was long established, together with its relentless spread into area after area of erstwhile non-Greek lands.
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01 Sep 1984
TL;DR: The Seleucid Kingdom of Syria was one of the Hellenistic kingdoms which emerged out of the dissolution of Alexander the Great's dominions and most resembled the empire conquered and for a time ruled over by the Macedonian king as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Of the various Hellenistic kingdoms which arose out of the dissolution of Alexander the Great's dominions, and most resembled the empire conquered and for a time ruled over by the Macedonian king, was the Seleucid kingdom. This chapter discusses the geographical description, and military and naval aspects of the Seleucid Kingdom. The organization of the official cult of the sovereign can be useful for tracing the Seleucid administrative divisions. In considering the relations between the Seleucid kingdom and the Greek cities one must distinguish between the new Seleucid foundations and the 'old cities' which existed before the Seleucid period and even before that of Alexander and the Diadochi. The precise role of the Iranian regions and policies pursued there by the Seleucid sovereigns are less clear in comparison with the Persian empire, and the axis of the Seleucid kingdom was markedly further to the west. The achievement of Seleucid Syria is to be assessed historically as a posthumous contribution.
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