Shaping the "divine man": holiness, charisma and leadership in the Graeco-Roman world
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by the Editors -- Part 1: 'Holiness'. Concepts and Cases of Holiness in the Graeco-Roman World -- (David Hernández de la Fuente) Θεῖοι ἄνδρες vs 'Greek Shamans' The Case of Pythagoras and the Animals -- (Jorge Cano Cuenca) Healing and Exceptionality....
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by the Editors -- Part 1: 'Holiness'. Concepts and Cases of Holiness in the Graeco-Roman World -- (David Hernández de la Fuente) Θεῖοι ἄνδρες vs 'Greek Shamans' The Case of Pythagoras and the Animals -- (Jorge Cano Cuenca) Healing and Exceptionality. Theia physis in Letters 1 and 2 of the Hippocratic Corpus -- (Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal) The Sixteen Women of Elis -- (Manuel Albaladejo Vivero) The Wise Men of India according to the Alexander Historians and Megasthenes -- (Haris Papoulias) On the Notion of ἰσόθεος in Longinus' Treatise on the Sublime -- (Ignacio Pajón Leyra) The Sage as a Leader and as a Holy Man in the Cynicism of the Imperial Era. Two Polemics -- (José María Zamora Calvo) Elevation to the Divine in Plotinus -- (Aitor Blanco Pérez) The Social and Political Context of 4th Century Neoplatonism. The Case of Lydia -- Part 2: 'Charisma and Leadership' -- (Marco Alviz Fernández) The Charismatic Community as a Key Element to Understand Late Antique Higher Education -- (Edward Watts) Roman, Pagan Philosophers in a Christian Empire -- (Clelia Martínez Maza) The Construction of Legitimate Models of Female Auctoritas in Neoplatonism -- (Sergi Grau Guijarro) Philosophers as θεῖο ἄνδρες between Diogenes Laertius and Eunapius of Sardis. Tradition and Discontinuities in the Shaping of Miracle Workers -- (Marina Díaz Bourgeal) Julian's ideal Priests as Θεῖοι ἄνδρες -- (Regina Fichera) The Portrait of the Philosopher as Divine Man in Late Antique Philosophical Biographies. The case of Isidore of Alexandria in Damascius' Historia Philosophica -- (Sonsoles Costero Quiroga) "Very dear to the Gods". The Role Model of Neoplatonism or Proclus as a 'Holy Man' -- (Silvia Acerbi) Therapeutic δύναμις in Marinus' Life of Proclus -- Part 3: 'Transmission and Reception'. From Holiness to Leadership. "This book deals with the intersection between religion, philosophy, and politics in the Graeco-Roman world, and especially in Late Antiquity, with special reference to the figure alluded to in ancient sources with the expression "theios aner". Charisma and leadership are basic elements of this notion: its literary, historical, and ideological context and the different interpretations of holiness and sanctity in a sociopolitical or educative community are researched in this collective endeavour. The scholarly contributions are organized along three sections - 'Holiness', 'Charisma and Leadership', and 'Transmission and Reception' - aiming at an overall analysis of the patterns involving charismatic leadership of the intellectual and spiritual figures in the sources and its socio-political context, with the central axis of Late Antiquity. Thus, together with some methodological considerations, this book examines some well-known figures of holiness and attempts to offer a panoramic, transdisciplinary, and comparative view of their cultural and intellectual context, and to determine what socio-political role they had"-- Back cover |
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| ISBN: | 3515134069 |