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ISBN10: 0312295634, ISBN13: 9780312295639, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0312295634, ISBN13: 9780312295639, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US] Softcover Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies at Georgia State University, USAThe Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate.
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Palgrave Macmillan, Date: 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 268 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2002. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0312295634 9780312295639 [GB]

ISBN10: 0312295634, ISBN13: 9780312295639, [publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan] Softcover XXIV, 268 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Ein sehr gutes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A very good copy without markings. - The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture—we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places—everywhere from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games—and in so doing makes an important new contribution to a very old debate. / Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One Was Greek Thought Religious? The View from the Courts Chapter Two The Son Supplants the Father: Seduction, Socratic Piety, and the Life of Virtue Chapter Three Pausanias at Olympia: The Greece Inside Rome Chapter Four The Short Pagan Career of Julian, the Apostate: Hellenism as Culture Chapter Five Icons and Incarnation: Hellenism Becomes a Heresy Chapter Six "A Mingle-Mangle of Heathenisme": Renaissance Theater, Renegade Theater ...