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Buddhas And Body Language: The Literary Trope Of The Buddha's Smile, David Fiordalis
Buddhas And Body Language: The Literary Trope Of The Buddha's Smile, David Fiordalis
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This essay explores how classical Buddhist literature, across a variety of traditional genres, portrays the wondrous smile of the Buddha. Despite its literary register, the Buddha’s smile is first and foremost a nonverbal gesture, and if we are to understand its significance, then we must employ a theoretical approach that treats it as such. Multimodality provides such an approach. While an emergent body of psychological research has argued that the smile is a universal human gesture connected to a rather limited set of emotional states like happiness, the recognition that smiles can be voluntary acts highlights the importance of situational …
Los Budas Y El Lenguaje Corporal: El Tropo Literario De La Sonrisa Del Buda, David Fiordalis
Los Budas Y El Lenguaje Corporal: El Tropo Literario De La Sonrisa Del Buda, David Fiordalis
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Este ensayo explora cómo retrata la literatura budista clásica la sonrisa del Buda. La sonrisa del Buda es un gesto no verbal, y para entender su significado debemos emplear un enfoque teórico que la trate como tal. La multimodalidad puede proporcionar tal enfoque. Un conjunto emergente de investigación psicológica ha argumentado que la sonrisa es un gesto humano universal conectado a un grupo limitado de estados emocionales, pero reconocer que las sonrisas pueden ser actos voluntarios destaca la importancia del contexto situacional. Dado que la sonrisa del Buda nos llega desde un contexto histórico y cultural ajeno a la evidencia …
The Blind Arhat And The Old Baby: Liberation By Wisdom, The Dry-Insight Practitioner, And The Pairing Of Calm And Insight, David V. Fiordalis
The Blind Arhat And The Old Baby: Liberation By Wisdom, The Dry-Insight Practitioner, And The Pairing Of Calm And Insight, David V. Fiordalis
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The distinction between “calm” (Pāli: samatha; Sanskrit: śamatha) and “insight” (P: vipassanā; Skt: vipaśyanā) is one of several ostensibly related dichotomies that have exerted a significant influence on classical and contemporary understandings of Buddhist practices, institutions, and history, as well as of the Buddhist path(s) to and conception(s) of awakening. However, scholars continue to debate whether Buddhists ever conceptualized two (or more) different paths or conceptions of this goal. Much of the debate has been based on the interpretation of doctrinal and theoretical materials. This essay takes as its starting point the concept of “liberation by …
Occupying And Transcending A Provincial See: The Career Of Euthymios Malakes, Hannah Ewing
Occupying And Transcending A Provincial See: The Career Of Euthymios Malakes, Hannah Ewing
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Despite a distinguished reputation as an orator and bishop in his own time, comparatively little scholarship focuses upon Euthymios Malakes, metropolitan of Neopatras during the later twelfth century. Using his extant works and contemporary sources, this article reconstructs elements of Malakes’ career in both Constantinople and Hellas. He was active in each, balancing his intellectual credentials, participation in synods, and elite connections to the capital, with immersion in more local contests. This combination allowed him to expand his pursuits and reputation beyond his minor see, in the capital and also in the province of his see.
Translation And Evolution: Byzantine Monastic Studies Since Ca. 1990, Hannah Ewing
Translation And Evolution: Byzantine Monastic Studies Since Ca. 1990, Hannah Ewing
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While monks were integral parts of the long‐lasting Byzantine world, Byzantine monasticism and its study can be relatively obscure to nonspecialists, given the diversity of monastic forms practiced in the empire. This piece presents a brief primer on Byzantine monastic studies and evaluates key scholarship in this increasingly vigorous field. In particular, it assesses the major impact of critical editions and primary‐source translation projects since the 1990s and 2000s, including both archival materials and hagiography. Furthermore, it evaluates the current state of the field and outlines several opportunities and directions for further research.
From Anthropophagy To Allegory And Back: A Study Of Classical Myth And The Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine
From Anthropophagy To Allegory And Back: A Study Of Classical Myth And The Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine
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No abstract provided.
Evidence From Flaws: Hellenistic Ceramic Production At Podere Funghi (Vicchio Di Mugello), Robert E. Vander Poppen
Evidence From Flaws: Hellenistic Ceramic Production At Podere Funghi (Vicchio Di Mugello), Robert E. Vander Poppen
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From 1996–2006, excavators of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project documented two important contexts for understanding Hellenistic period ceramic production at Podere Funghi near the sanctuary at Poggio Colla: a kiln-waster midden, and a series of kilns located in the vicinity of a small residential structure. This article consists of the results of a visual and metric examination of the fineware material from the midden. The examination assessed the nature and prevalence of specific firing flaws associated with the productive process, and the data derived from this study are used to reconstruct some of the technical challenges faced by the Podere …
Electron: Greek Etymology And Baltic Mythology, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Electron: Greek Etymology And Baltic Mythology, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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No abstract provided.
Manuscripts, Editors And Sophocles, Philoctetes, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Manuscripts, Editors And Sophocles, Philoctetes, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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The thesis of the article may be briefly summarized as follows: Lines 671-673 in all of our ancient MSS are consistently assigned to Philoctetes. Modern editors however, following in the footsteps of nineteenth century scholars regularly assign these lines change in line assignment was made on purely subjective grounds for no reason that can be substantiated by the dramatic situation therefore, the article concludes that in the absence of any sound reasons for the alteration we should return to the readings of the major manuscripts and the earliest editions of the play.
Voldemort Tyrannos: Plato’S Tyrant In The Republic And The Wizarding World, Anne Collins Smith, Owen M. Smith
Voldemort Tyrannos: Plato’S Tyrant In The Republic And The Wizarding World, Anne Collins Smith, Owen M. Smith
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In the Harry Potter novel series, by J. K. Rowling, the character of Lord Voldemort is the dictatorial ruler of the Death Eaters and aspiring despot of the entire wizarding community. As such, he serves as an apt subject for the application of Plato’s portrait of the tyrant in Republic IX. The process of applying Plato to Voldemort, however, leads to an apparent anomaly, the resolution of which requires that we move beyond the Republic to the account of beauty presented by Plato in the Symposium. In doing so, we shall find that while Plato can help us to understand …
Louisa May Alcott In Her Own Time: An Introduction Through Her Printed Works, Maggie Kopp
Louisa May Alcott In Her Own Time: An Introduction Through Her Printed Works, Maggie Kopp
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Text and slides of presentation given at Orem Public Library, 19 April 2011.
For Their Own Good: Moral Slavery 101--The Aristotelian Cantus Firmus, Gary M. Simpson
For Their Own Good: Moral Slavery 101--The Aristotelian Cantus Firmus, Gary M. Simpson
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“Moral slavery” will sound curiously—even immorally—oxymoronic to most of us, and a “course” in Aristotle’s views on “moral slavery” will seem quaintly archaic or irrelevantly “academic.” We will be surprised to learn how much these ideas have influenced our culture and continue to influence our lives and politics.
"Putting On The Neighbor": The Ciceronian Impulse In Luther's Christian Approach To Practical Reason, Gary M. Simpson
"Putting On The Neighbor": The Ciceronian Impulse In Luther's Christian Approach To Practical Reason, Gary M. Simpson
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No abstract provided.
Greek And Pre-Greek Oath : The Importance Of Styx, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Greek And Pre-Greek Oath : The Importance Of Styx, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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This paper seeks to prove that in pre-Greek oaths and truth-tests , liturgy associated with this religious stratum did not have libations as the primary ritual feature. Rather, from an examination of a variety of textual sources we uncover evidence not only that Styx and Demeter are aspects of the same pre- Greek female deity but also that pre-Greek oaths may have been associated with certain stones rather than merely libations.
From The Bodies Of Bees: Classical And Christian Echoes In Surat Al Nahl, Andrew Foster
From The Bodies Of Bees: Classical And Christian Echoes In Surat Al Nahl, Andrew Foster
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No abstract provided.
Quae Supersunt Sema Polyphemou: A Case Of Paraleipsis In The Argonautica Of Apollonius Rhodius1, Andrew Foster
Quae Supersunt Sema Polyphemou: A Case Of Paraleipsis In The Argonautica Of Apollonius Rhodius1, Andrew Foster
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No abstract provided.
Arsinoe Ii As Epic Queen: Encomiastic Allusion In Theocritus, Idyll 15*, Andrew Foster
Arsinoe Ii As Epic Queen: Encomiastic Allusion In Theocritus, Idyll 15*, Andrew Foster
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This paper will illustrate how Idyll 15’s intertextual affiliation with the Odyssey and Greek historiography embellishes the poem’s explicit encomium of Arsinoe II. By alluding to Arete, Circe, and Helen and augmenting these allusions with reports of Egypt and Egyptian conquerers given by Herodotus and Hecataeus, Theocritus subtly depicts Arsinoe II as a semi-divine Greek and Egyptian queen whose wealth, status, and beneficence exceeds even that of the Homeric women to whom she is compared.
Was The Chronicler A Spin Doctor?: David In The Books Of Chronicles, Mark A. Throntveit
Was The Chronicler A Spin Doctor?: David In The Books Of Chronicles, Mark A. Throntveit
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Yes, the Chronicler was a spin doctor—but a necessary one. He used the David story to address the needs of his postexilic community who questioned the value of God’s old promises to David in this new time of Persian domination, without a king, worshiping in a temple that was the mere shadow of Solomon’s glorious edifice.
Ephesians And Stoic Physics, David E. Fredrickson
Ephesians And Stoic Physics, David E. Fredrickson
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A primer in Stoic physics is required to understand Ephesians’ description of the body of Christ. The result is problematic
No Noose Is Good News: Leadership As A Theological Problem In The Corinthian Correspondence, David E. Fredrickson
No Noose Is Good News: Leadership As A Theological Problem In The Corinthian Correspondence, David E. Fredrickson
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The role of the leader implied by Paul’s Corinthian letters is to prepare persons for public participation in the gathered community. Paul portrays himself as the community’s slave, who thus makes others free for political participation.
Parrēsia In The Pauline Epistles., David E. Fredrickson
Parrēsia In The Pauline Epistles., David E. Fredrickson
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No abstract provided.
Topography And Theology In The Gospel Of John, Craig R. Koester
Topography And Theology In The Gospel Of John, Craig R. Koester
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No abstract provided.
'Αaάτος At Odyssey 22.5: Greek And Indo-European Oaths, Marianina Demetri Olcott
'Αaάτος At Odyssey 22.5: Greek And Indo-European Oaths, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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The meaning of the word ἀάατος at Homer's Odyssey 22.5 becomes clearer examined in conjunction with its occurrence at Iliad 14.271 where it is used as an epithet of the river Styx. Further discussion, by locating the word within the context of IE ordeal rituals, Greek cosmogony and the pre-IE mythology of Greek Arcadia, reveals a complex theology amalgamated from these different sources.
The Getty Homer Fragment, Marianina Demetri Olcott
The Getty Homer Fragment, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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No abstract provided.
Metre And Translation In Pound's Women Of Trachis, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Metre And Translation In Pound's Women Of Trachis, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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No abstract provided.
Tacitus On The Ancient Amber-Gatherers: A Re-Evaluation Of Germania, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Tacitus On The Ancient Amber-Gatherers: A Re-Evaluation Of Germania, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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No abstract provided.
Greek Odes--Again, Lucian Minor
Greek Odes, Lucian Minor
Study Of The Latin And Greek Classics, Lucian Minor
Study Of The Latin And Greek Classics, Lucian Minor
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No abstract provided.