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Book SynopsisSandra Gilgan’s Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education examines the classics-reading movement in contemporary China as not only driven by attraction to certain elements of tradition, but even more by caesuras in the past that caused people to detach from their cultural roots. The author argues that activism in the classics-reading movement arises from an entanglement of past, present, and future. Social and political upheaval in the near past of the twentieth century caused people to disconnect from their traditional culture and ways of living, resulting in the present need to reconnect with perceived “original” culture and tradition from the more distant past. Through peoples’ imaginaries of a better future that are informed by past traditions, new ways of the past find entrance into life and education in study halls and academies. This new study draws on multi-sited ethnographic field research in ten Chinese cities, with the broadest database currently available. It combines theoretical elements from anthropology, history, sociology and sinology in a grounded theory approach. As an interdisciplinary study, the book is of interest for academics in Asian and Chinese studies, heritage and memory studies, religious studies, educational sciences, history, and cultural anthropology, as well as social and political sciences.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy of Dido is replete with allusions to the Medeas of Euripides, Apollonius, and Ennius, as well as to Catullus’ Ariadne and the historical Cleopatra of Virgil’s Augustan Age. The book has intratextual connections to the poet’s own fourth Georgic (as he revisits the topic of apian regeneration and the loss of Eurydice), even as it confronts the reality of Rome’s bloody history with Carthage. The present volume offers the first full-scale commentary on the book in over eighty years, together with a new critical text that reflects recent scholarship on significant difficulties.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first systematic linguistic study of Zenodotus’ variant readings, showing that he used a version of Homer older than the one used by Aristarchus a century later. Several clues point to the fact that Zenodotus’ version belongs to a tradition that was already distinct from that which eventually yielded the vulgate (that is, the Homer we know). In particular, his version largely pre-dates the Sophists’ reflections on language, rhetorics and style, and the grammatical theories of Alexandrian scholars. The finding presented in this book should encourage not only historical linguists, but also philologists and classicists to revise the communis opinio and attentively consider Zenodotus’ readings in their research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1 Homeric Scholarship and Zenodotus’ Status  2 Corpus 1 Zenodotus’ Text: An Overview  1 Types of Variant Readings  2 Linguistic Evidence for Zenodotus’ Text  3 Criteria of Discussion of Variant Readings  4 Old Forms in new clothes  5 Should a Zenodotean Older Reading Be Printed in a Modern Edition?  6 Zenodotus and Historical Linguistics 2 Sitting on an Old Tree  1 Γ 151–152: The Metrical Problem  2 Zenodotus’ Reading  3 Dialectal Trees  4 The Athematic Forms of δένδρεον  5 “Tree” and Its Proto-Indo-European Root  6 Back to Zenodotus  7 Δενδρήεις 3 “Demain dès l’aube” (Tomorrow at Dawn)  1 Θ 470: The Metrical Problem  2 Θ 470: The Syntactic Problem  3 Zenodotus’ Reading  4 Aeolic αὔα/αὖα  5 Proto-Indo-European Inflection of “Dawn”  6 Boeotian ἀϝές, Zenodotus’ ἄϝας and Sappho’s *αὔα  7 Ἄας δὴ and ἠοῦς δὴ  8 Θ 525  9 Chronology and Phonetic Evolution  10 Achaean Type τελήεις 4 Stretching Arms  1 Α 351  2 A Linguistic Fossil  3 Yet Another Fossil 5 Matters of Perception  1 Ξ 37–38: The Hapax ὀψείοντες  2 Zenodotus’ Reading  3 Adverbs and Preverbs  4 μ 438–439  5 Elimination of ὄψ  6 From Zenodotus’ Reading to the Vulgate 6 Cloaks and Coats  1 Ἔρυμα/ἔλυμα Δ 137  2 Νυκτὶ ἐλυσθείς Α 47  3 ϝελυσθείς and ἐλυσθείς  4 ἐλύσθη  5 A New Picture  6 Hesiod’s ἔλῡμα 7 Straight Shaft and Straight Flight  1 The hapax ἰθυπτῑ́ων  2 Κυλλοποδίων  3 Zenodotus’ Reading  4 Reconstruction and Etymology  5 The Vulgate’s Reading 8 Hollow Lacedaemon, Its Reeds, Its Crevices …  1 Achaean κηώεις?  2 Κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν # Β 581  3 What Was Zenodotus’ Spelling?  4 Καιτάεσσαν in Its Context  5 Reanalysis and Secondary Use  6 Remotivating the New Form 9 Reeds Again  1 Σ 576: The Vulgate’s Reading  2 Zenodotus’ Reading  3 The Preposition and the Status of κελάδων 10 Homer the Master of Rhetorics  1 Β 681  2 Α 60  3 Ζ 70–71  4 Λ 458  5 Γ 210–211  6 O 190–191 Synthesis Conclusion Appendix: The Corpus Bibliography Index Verborum Index Locorum Index Grammaticorum

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Book SynopsisPoliteia and Koinōnia are forms of government and citizenship, community and participation, from Sappho’s social and political status to the economic and religious activity of women, from the reforms of Solon to the French Revolution. This book by leading scholars in ancient Greek history explores the most important aspects of Greek civilization and those that stirred the most our modern curiosity and our modern perceptions of Greek antiquity. The reason to organize this unique international exchange of ideas was to celebrate the outstanding scholarly achievement of Professor Josine Blok on the occasion of her retirement in 2019.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Part 1 Citizenship 1 Was Sappho a Citizen? Social and Political Aspects of Sappho’s Poetry  André Lardinois 2 Early Greek Poetry, Social Mobility, and Solon’s Census Classes  Marek Węcowski 3 Citizens as Drinkers? A Glimpse from the Countryside of the Archaic Argolid  Gunnel Ekroth 4 How (Not) to Be a Citizen: Subordination and Participation of the perioikoi in Hellenistic Sparta (and Elsewhere)  Christel Müller 5 Citizenship as the City’s Revealing Mirror: Comparative Considerations on the Content and the Historical Context of Citizenship in Athens and Rome  Kostas Buraselis Part 2 Historiography 6 Herodotus, Thucydides, and the ‘Wheel of History’: Patterns of Historical Interpretation  Kurt A. Raaflaub 7 Documenting the Past: Primary Sources in Fourth-century Historiography  Nino Luraghi 8 Polis Patriotism and the Writing of Athenian History: Philochoros of Athens  Rosalind Thomas 9 Athens and the French Revolution  Oswyn Murray Part 3 Participation: Politics and Beyond 10 Lottery and Mixture in the Greek Polis  Irad Malkin 11 Elis and Pisatis: A Case Study in Political Participation  Hans-Joachim Gehrke 12 Beyond the Limits of the Polis? Once Again on the Relations between Teos and Abdera  Maurizio Giangiulio 13 Tragedy, Tribes and the Civic Landscape in Classical Athens  François de Polignac 14 Without Dust  Thomas Heine Nielsen 15 Women’s Work? Who Made Textiles in the Ancient Greek World?  Lin Foxhall 16 Xenokrateia the Athenian and her Tailor-made Divine Team  Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Part 4 Valedictory Lecture 17 Sortition and Democracy  Josine Blok index

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Book SynopsisThis edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface Acknowledgements Boethius’s Life in Brief Boece’s Structure and Content The Consolation of Philosophy’s Influence on Chaucer Boece’s Enduring Allure The Text of Boece Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Glossary of Words Glossary of Proper Names Further Readings Index

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Book SynopsisIn this series, Eric Cullhed (University of Uppsala) and S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota) combine to provide the reader with a new critical edition of the Greek text of Byzantine scholar and rhetorician Eustathius of Thessalonica’s Commentary on the Odyssey, composed during the latter half of the twelfth century CE. A much desired facing English translation of the commentary is included as well. Eustathius’ commentary collects material from a wide range of sources which explain or expand on words, phrases and ideas in the Homeric epic. His original comments are blended with extracts from earlier commentators, especially the Homeric scholia. The text is also an important source for fragments of lost works of ancient literature, for the history of exegesis and lexicography, and for Byzantine cultural history. Full critical, citation and source apparatuses are included. This second volume in the series includes a full critical text and translation of Eustathius’ Commentary on Rhapsodies 5-8 of the Odyssey, in which we first meet Odysseus himself and witness his escape from Calypso and arrival on the island of Scheria.

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Book SynopsisThe Fozu tongji by Zhipan (ca. 1220–1275) is a key text of Chinese Buddhist historiography. The core of the work is formed by the “Fayun tongsai zhi,” an annalistic history of Buddhism in China, which extends through Fozu tongji, juan 34–48. Thomas Jülch now presents a translation of the “Fayun tongsai zhi” in three volumes. This third volume covers the annalistic display concerning the Song dynasty. Offering elaborate annotations, Jülch succeeds in clarifying the backgrounds to the historiographic contents, which Zhipan presents in highly essentialized style. Regarding the historical matters addressed in the material translated for the present volume, the Fozu tongji is often the earliest source. In several cases, inaccuracies in Zhipan’s account can however still be discerned, and Jülch succeeds in employing other sources to reveal and correct those errors.Table of Contents9789004680135 Acknowledgements Introduction to Fozu tongji, juan 43–48  1 Tiantai Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, and the Eminent Monks  2 Important Monasteries, Sacred Mountains, and Their Geographic Locations  3 Buddhist Laymen with Confucian Background  4 The Buddhist Confrontation with Neoconfucianism  5 The Buddhist Confrontation with Daoism  6 Buddhist and Daoist Prophecy  7 The Jurchen Invasion of Northern China  8 Intertextuality  9 Alternative Names Preliminary Remarks Translation Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 10  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 10 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 11  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 11 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 12  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 12 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 13  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 13 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 14  Supplements for Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 14 Fayun tongsai zhi, juan 15 Glossary of Sanskrit Terms Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisDidymus of Alexandria (also known as Chalcenterus, ‘bronze-guts’, for his outstanding ability to ‘digest’ and rework the scholarship of his predecessors) played a pivotal role in the understanding and reception of many classical Greek authors, both in antiquity and in modern times. His commentaries on the comic playwrights influenced ancient and modern scholarship alike and constitute to this day an invaluable repository of information for the study of ancient Greek comedy, the history of Hellenistic philology, and more. This is the first critical edition (with English translation and commentary) of all the extant fragments of Didymus’ commentaries on the comic playwrights.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. His poetic encyclopaedia, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, was a source for writing on the liberal arts, allegory and classical mythology from 1300 to 1650. In fact, writers of this period had much more in common with Martianus Capella than they did with older ancients like Homer and Virgil. As such, we must reshape our understanding of late medieval and Renaissance encounters with the classical world by exploring their roots in Late Antiquity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Martianus Capella and His Early Reception  1 Introduction  2 De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii  3 The Earlier Reception of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii  4 The Question of the Later Reception 2 The Trecento Martianus: Harmonising Poetry and Learning  1 Dante and the Legacy of Late Antiquity  2 Myth and Dialectic in the Underworld  3 Cosmic Education  4 The Pageant of Philology: Petrarch and Boccaccio 3 The Middle English Martianus: Uneasy Myths and Marriages  1 Chaucer’s House of Fame and the Co(s)mic Ascent  2 Mirthful and Mythical Marriages: The Merchant’s Tale  3 Lydgate’s Martianus 4 The Quattrocento Martianus: The Aesthetics of Knowledge  1 Humanists and Patrons, Erudition and Iconography  2 Alberti’s Allegories  3 Exploring the Esoteric: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 5 Early Northern Humanism: Philosophical and Practical Allegories  1 De nuptiis in Early Print (1499–1510)  2 Philosophical Commentary: Johannes Dubravius  3 Pedagogical Personifications: Richard Pace  4 Professional Allegories: Geoffroy Tory 6 Martianus in the Cinquecento and Beyond: Vernacular Myth, Image and Performance  1 Collecting the Gods: Martianus in Mythography  2 Translations: Mercury and Philology in Italian  3 Myth in Performance: Intermedi 7 Late Northern Humanism: The Triumph of Philology  1 Later Sixteenth-Century Editions and Commentary  2 The Cornucopia of Scholarship: Justus Lipsius and Gerardus Vossius  3 Martianus in Early Modern England Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDalā’il al-Nubuwwa literature that is centered on narratives from the Prophet Muḥammad’s life has most commonly been viewed, or even dismissed, as the product of popular veneration. Building extensive research on biographical and bibliographical sources, this book demonstrates that Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa literature emerged among the circles of early ḥadīth scholars of the late 2nd/8th century. By analyzing extant texts of Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa regarding their sources, structures, methodological approaches, and selection of contents, it showcases that these works were part of epistemological discourses on prophecy that transcended religious boundaries as well as the dividing lines between various Muslim scholarly disciplines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1 Historiography, Hagiography, and the Marginalization of Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature  2 Are Miracles Categorically “Popular”?  3 Hagiology as an Analytical Tool 1 The Scholar and the Storyteller?—Quṣṣāṣ in Early Islam  1 Authenticated and Unauthenticated Approaches  2 ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and the “Authenticated” Traditions  3 Wahb b. Munabbih and the “Unauthenticated” Traditions  4 Comparative Analysis: The Accounts of the Hijra according to ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih  4.1 ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr’s Account of the Hijra  4.2 Wahb b. Munabbih’s Account of the Hijra  4.3 A Detailed Comparison between the Hijra Accounts of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih  4.4 Miracles in the Corpus of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr 2 Biographies of the Earliest Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Authors  1 The First Generation  2 The Second Generation  3 The Third Generation  4 The Fourth Generation  5 The Evolution of Early Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Authors 3 Methodological and Structural Approaches in dalāʾil al-nubūwa Literature  1 Methodologies of Authentication in Early Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  1.1 Al-Jūzajānī’s “Amārāt al-Nubūwa”  1.2 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿ⁠Alamāt al-nubūwa”  1.2.1 The Question of Unauthenticated Materials in Ibn Saʿd’s Ṭabaqāt  1.2.1 Muḥammad’s Encounter with Umm Maʿbad  1.2.2 Muḥammad’s Encounter with Surāqa  1.2.3 The Cobweb and the Pigeon 1.2.2 “Popular” Materials in Ibn Saʿd’s Chapters on the Signs of Prophecy  2 Methodologies of Authentication in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  2.1 al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-Nabī  2.2 Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  2.3 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  3 Structure and Arrangement of Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  3.1 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿAlamāt al-Nubūwa”  3.2 Al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-Nabī  3.3 Abū Nuʿāym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  3.4 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa 4 Content Analysis of Early Extant Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  1 Maʿmar b. Rāshid’s “Bāb al-Nubūwa”  2 Ibn Saʿd’s “ʿ⁠Alamāt al-Nubūwa”  2.1 Announcement or Prediction of Prophecy  2.1.1 Monotheistic Predictions  2.1.2 Previous Prophets  2.1.3 Predictions by Pagans  2.2 Water- and/or Food-Related “Miracles”  2.3 Natural Phenomena  2.4 Events in the Prophet’s Childhood  2.5 States of the Prophet  2.6 Interactions with the Divine  2.7 Hidden Knowledge  2.8 Material Transformation and Healing  3 Al-Bukhārī’s “ʿ⁠Alāmāt al-Nubūwa fī l-Islām”  4 al-Jūzajānī’s “Amārāt al-Nubūwa”  4.1 Food-Related Incidents as “Proofs of Prophecy”  4.2 The Prophet’s Character as “Proof of Prophecy”  4.3 Light as “Proof of Prophecy”  4.4 Interactions with the Divine  5 al-Tirmidhī’s “Bāb mā jāʾ fī ayāt Nubūwa al-Nabī wa-mā qad khaṣṣa Allāh bihi”  5.1 Food/Water Related Incidents  5.2 Natural Phenomena 5 Ibn Saʿd’s “Proofs of Prophecy” and Its Intellectual Landscape  1 Political and Religious Impulses on the Notion of Prophecy  2 Christian-Muslim Encounters in the Early ʿ⁠Abbāsid Period  3 Analysis: Approaches to Christian Apologetic Literature  3.1 Christians Addressing Muḥammad’s Prophetic Status and Islam’s Role in Sacred History  3.2 Islam as a Vehicle for Muḥammad’s Personal Gain or Immoral Behavior  3.3 Miracles  4 Ibn Saʿd and Christian Apologetics  5 Muslim Discourse on Pre-Qurʾānic Annunciations of Muḥammad  5.1 The Kitāb al-Maghāzī of Ibn Isḥāq (d. 150/767) 6 Recurring Themes in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature  1 Al-Khargūshī’s Sharaf al-nabī  2 Abū Nuʿ⁠aym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  3 Al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-nubūwa  4 Theology in Later Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Works  4.1 Theology in Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  4.2 Theology in al-Bayhaqī’s Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa  5 Conclusion Epilogue: Dalāʾil al-nubūwa and the Promise of Comparative Hagiology Appendix: A Detailed Comparison between ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih Bibliography Index

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