Bremmer Jan Ed (45 results)

Paperback. 213pp, 16 black/white plates Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780745618807. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Good+ with a a knock to top front board edge and previous owner name to ffep. The jacket is VG with a nick to head of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. 1st Edition. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent copy. Unclipped dust jacket with light wear. Content is bright, tight and clean, with a small inscription to FEP. 294pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Minor sheflwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). DJ has some dampstaining; Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ?Paris school? of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically, the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected, with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history, ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes ? Oedipus, Orpheus, Narcissus ? reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology, and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Light Bmp to head of spine. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear.; Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ?Paris school? of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically, the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected, with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history, ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes ? Oedipus, Orpheus, Narcissus ? reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology, and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bmp to upper edge of rear board. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Else Minor shelfwear. DJ has minor shelfwear.; Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ?Paris school? of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically, the notion that mythology can simply be read as a primitive mode of narrative history is rejected, with emphasis instead being placed on the relationships between mythology and history, ritual and political genealogy. The essays concentrate on some of the best known characters and themes ? Oedipus, Orpheus, Narcissus ? reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. The volume will long remain an indispensable tool for the study of Greek mythology, and it is of great interest to anyone interested in the development of Greek culture and civilisation and the nature of myth.; 294 pages; The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.…

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1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Very nice copy octavo x + 213pp., b/w plates, notes, appends., bibliog., index, Essays inc. Greek pederasty & modern homosexuality; lesbian Sappho & Sappho of lesbos; medieval anti-incest legislation; representations of morality in 17th century Dutch children''s portraits; passion & voyeurism In French rococo paintings; sexual beliefs in 18th century Holland; de Sade; prostitution in fin-de-siecle Vienna; mannish women in the Balkans; social & historical aspects of sexuality.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2004 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: This volume discusses the narrative of the creation of heaven, earth and light in the first chapter of Genesis and focuses extensively on its later interpretations in different cultural and religious contexts. After an introductory paper on the text of Genesis itself, the authors deal with receptions of this theme in the Prophet Jeremiah, Early Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They comment on creation accounts in the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece and ancient philosophy, reconstructing the earliest known receptions of Genesis 1 in ancient philosophers like Numenius and Galen. They trace its influence in the Johannine, Petrine and Pauline traditions of Early Christianity, and follow it right through the Middle Ages up till the present-day discussion of design in Nature. Contents: 1. 'The Creation of Light in Genesis 1:1-5: Remarks on the Function of Light and Darkness in the Opening Verses of the Hebrew Bible' by Ed Noort; 2. 'Back to Chaos: The Relationship between Jeremiah 4:23-26 and Genesis 1' by Jacques van Ruiten; 3. 'Lights Serving as Signs for Festivals' (Genesis 1:14b) in Enuma Elis and Early Judaism' by Eibert Tigchelaar; 4. 'Creation in the Dead Sea Scrolls' by Florentino Garcia Martinez; 5. 'Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths in Ancient Greece' by Jan N. Bremmer; 6. 'Cosmic Gods and Primordial Chaos in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: The Context of Philo's Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus and the Book of Genesis' by John Dillon; 7. 'God the Creator, God the Creation: Numenius' Interpretation of Genesis 1:2 (Frg. 30)' by Robbert M. van den Berg; 8. 'Galen and Genesis' by Teun Tieleman; 9. 'The 'True Light which Enlightens Everyone' (John 1:9): John, Genesis, the Platonic Notion of the 'True, Noetic Light,' and the Allegory of the Cave in Plato's Republic' by George H. van Kooten; 10. 'Creation 'Out of' and 'Through' Water in 2 Peter 3:5' by Edward Adams; 11. 'The History-of-Religions Background of 1 Timothy 4:4: 'Everything that God has Created is Good'' by Boudewijn Dehandschutter; 12. 'Reading Creation: Early Medieval Views of Genesis and Plato's Timaeus' by Willemien Otten; 13. 'Design in Nature: Some Current Issues' by Rene van Woudenberg; 14. 'Design in Nature: Some Comments from the Ancient Perspective' by John Dillon.…

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