The Private Operations of Themistius

Informationen zum Autor Robert J. Penella is Professor of Classics at Fordham University. He is the author of The Letters of Apollonius of Tyana: A Critical Text with Prolegomena! Translation and Commentary (1979) and of Greek Philosophers and Sophists in the Fourth Century A.D.: Studies in Eunapius of Sardis (1990). Klappentext Fifteen fourth-century A.D. Byzantine orations never translated into English before. Zusammenfassung Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the 4th century A D. This work focuses on the culture of Constantinople and the eastern Roman empire during the fourth century. It provides a resource on the late antique period, as well as on Greek intellectual history and oratory.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Penella, Penella Robert J., Themistius
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.1999
• EAN: 9780520218215
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21821-5
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Transformation of the Classica; Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General & world history, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc