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• List of Plates and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves
• 1 Outlaw Literature
• 2 "Arab Thieves": Establishing a Category 2.1 Su'luk/Sa'alik 2.2 Fatik/Futtak 2.3 Liss/Lusus 2.4 The Runners 2.5 The Arab Ravens 2.6 Lions and Wolves 2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions
• 3 Thieves and Arab History 3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century 3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century 3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras 3.4 al-Maqrizi and His Lusus al-'Arab
• 4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrizi's Own World
• 5 Al-Maqrizi's Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure 5.1 The Thieves 5.2 Narrative Structure 5.3 The Book
• 6 The Sources 6.1 Dictionaries and the List of 'Arab Thieves' 6.2 Al-Maqrizi's Sources: Overview 6.3 Al-Maqrizi's Copying Style: Case Studies 6.4 Al-Maqrizi and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections 6.5 Sources: Conclusions
• 7 Concluding Remarks
• Plates
• Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation
• The Holograph
• The Translation
• Abbreviations and Symbols
• Text and Translation of al-Maqrizi's al-Habar 'an al-basar, vol. V, Sections 1-2: the Arab Thieves
• Section on the Arabs' Religions before Islam
• Section on the Arab Hussies
• Section on the Arab Thieves 'Amr of the Dog Ta'abbata Sarran Al-Sanfara Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Sa'di Al-Muntasir Awfa b. Matar al-Mazini 'Amr b. Barraqah Al-Uhaymir Nizam Yazid
• Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Sources in al-Habar 'an al-basar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Suleymaniye Kutuphanesi), fols. Ia-b, 1a-3b, 4*a-b, 4a-9b, 10*a-b, 10a-15b.
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In The Arab Thieves, Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on 'Arab Thieves' in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrizi's text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrizi used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.
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Michel Scot, traducteur arabisant, médicin, astrologue-encyclopédiste au service de l'empereur Frédéric II, eut dès son siècle une aura quelque peu mystérieuse d'un savant qui «semble avoir connu vraiment les jeux trompeurs de la sorcellerie», si l'on croit Dante qui le jugea digne de son Enfer (XX, 115-17). Mais ses contemporains ont su apprécier aussi sa contribution à la marche triomphale de l'aristotélisme. Par rapport à ses traductions, son oevre magistrale propre, le Liber introductorius (ca. 1220-1235), eut une diffusion relativement restreinte et une tradition manuscrite compliquée. Aujourd'hui, cet auteur ne risque plus de passer aux oubliettes de l'histoire des idées et des sciences. Cette édition n'a pas l'ambition de ressusciter un soldat inconnu, mais de lui rendre justice, en faisant connaître deux de ses traités dont la paternité ne fait pas de doute: le Liber particularis et le Liber physionomie. Ils forment la deuxième et la troisième partie du Liber introductorius. Tout en participant à un project commun, chacun possède sa structure, sa problématique, voire son style. Le Liber particularis traite particulariter, «en détails», les grandes thèmes de la cosmologie médiévale. Le deuxième est le premier livre de l'Occident médiéval consacré exclusivement à la physiognomonie, un savoir à succès prodigieux jusqu'au XIXe siècle.

Arabic language; versification; early works to 1800

• Martyrdom of Nicholas the Younger
• Encomium of Nicholas the Younger / by the Presbyter Achaikos
• Funeral oration for Athanasios, Bishop of Methone / by Peter, Bishop of Argos
• Life of Peter, Bishop of Argos / by Theodore, Bishop of Nicaea
• Life and miracles of Theokletos, Bishop of Lakedaimon
• Life of Theodore of Kythera / by Leo
• Commemoration of Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra.

Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history-when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea. This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.
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• Qualiter adventus domini celebrari debeat
• De observatione ieiunii quattuor temporum
• De quibusdam rebus ad missae officium pertinentibus libellus
• De varia psalmorum atque cantuum modulatione
• Ratio generalis de initio adventus domini

"This volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities - such as how to find the correct date for Advent Sunday, or how to be sure that a text is liturgically or doctrinally appropriate - Bern's four tractates provide rare first-hand insights into the practices, problems and perceptions of Christian liturgy in the early years of the second millennium. Formerly attributed to Bern, a fifth work (Ratio generalis de initio Aduentus) is shown to be one of his sources and is edited in an appendix.Unlike formal liturgical expositions, Bern's writings were devoted to alleviating specific concerns, often at the request of specific people. However, the author also believed strongly in the potential of his reasoning to draw together the Christian community at large. As such, these writings are assiduously argued and researched, reaching their conclusions with the author's characteristically broad weave of citation, interpretation and anecdote. With implications liturgical, intellectual and political, the tractates are fertile sources not only for scholars of religion, but also for musicologists and medieval historians.In an extensive introduction the editor addresses longstanding questions about the shape, extent and internal coherence of Bern's liturgical oeuvre, aided by two recently rediscovered manuscripts. The apparatus and indices also provide the first detailed survey of the author's extensive liturgical, patristic and canonical citations, in addition to accessible explications of more complicated areas of argument." -- Publisher's website

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• List of Figures and Photos
• 1 Introduction Maria Pretzler and Nick Barley
• 2 The Other Aineias David Whitehead
• 3 Aineias the Author-Who, Where and When? Robin Lane Fox
• 4 Aineias Tacticus in His Intellectual Context Graham Shipley
• 5 Aineias and History: The Purpose and Context of Historical Narrative in the Poliorketika Maria Pretzler
• 6 Creating Koine: Aineias Tacticus in the History of the Greek Language Jose Vela Tejada
• 7 Writing and Other Forms of Communication in Aineias' Poliorketika Peter Liddel
• 8 The Polis Falling Apart: Aineias Tacticus and Stasis Maria Pretzler
• 9 Greek Poleis and Warfare in the IVth Century BC: Aineias' Poliorketika Marco Bettalli
• 10 Light Infantry and Leadership in Aineias Nick Barley
• 11 Mercenaries in Aineias Tacticus Jim Roy
• 12 Raiders from the Sea: The Maritime Context of the Poliorketika Philip de Souza
• 13 'News from Home': Aeneas Tacticus and Fourth-century Defense in Practice at Ancient Stymphalos Ben Gourley
• 14 Simple and Complex Technology in Aineias: Ladders and Telegraphy Tracey Rihll
• 15 Aineias Tacticus in Byzantine Military Literature Philip Rance Index.
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Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias' (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual trends. We offer an introduction to Aineias and his work, and then discuss the work's historical and intellectual context, his qualities as a writer, and aspects of his work as a historical source for the Greek polis of the fourth century BC. Several chapters discuss Aineias' approach to warfare, specifically light infantry, mercenaries, naval operations, fortifications and technology. Finally, we include a lengthy study of the reception of ancient military treatises, specifically Aineias' Poliorketika, in the Byzantine period.
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"The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah tells the story of two siblings who convert to Christianity under the tutelage of Mar Mattai, a monastic leader and wonderworker from the Roman Empire. After the children refuse to worship pagan gods, they are killed by their own father, the Persian king. Strangely, he is identified as Sennacherib the Assyrian, a pre-Christian ruler better known from the biblical Book of Kings. This is not the only chronological oddity with the text. Although Behnam and Sarah is set in the fourth century, during the golden age of martyrdom in the Sasanian Empire, the text was not composed until hundreds of years later. The composition of the narrative about the two martyers seems to have coincided with the construction of a twelfth-century shrine that was built in their honor by Syrian Orthodox monks on the Nineveh Plain, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The beautiful martyrium, which housed intricate relief sculptures and inscriptions in several langauges, was an important pilgrimage site for Christians, Muslims, and Yezidis until it was destroyed in 2015. In this volume of the "Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac" series, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Kyle Smith provde the first critical edition and English translation of this fascinating martyrdom narrative, a text that was once widely popular among numerous communities throughout the Middle East"--Back cover.

• dai 1-kan. An'ei 2-nen yori An'ei 4-nen ni itaru

• 第一卷. 自安永二年至安永四年 --

• Introduction : Cornutus the philosopher
• The Greek theology
• On pronunciation or othography
• Fragments and testimonia
• Cornutus and Persius.

Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662) is now widely recognized as one of the greatest theological thinkers, not simply in the entire canon of Greek patristic literature, but in the Christian tradition as a whole. A peripatetic monk and prolific writer, his penetrating theological vision found expression in an unparalleled synthesis of biblical exegesis, ascetic spirituality, patristic theology, and Greek philosophy, which is as remarkable for its conceptual sophistication as for its labyrinthine style of composition. On Di-culties in Sacred Scripture, presented here for the first time in a complete English translation (including the 465 scholia), contains Maximos's virtuosic theological interpretations of sixty-five difficult passages from the Old and New Testaments. Because of its great length, along with its linguistic and conceptual difficulty, the work as a whole has been largely neglected. Yet alongside the Ambigua to John, On Di-culties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios deserves to be ranked as the Confessor's greatest work and one of the most important patristic treatises on the interpretation of Scripture, combining the interconnected traditions of monastic devotion to the Bible, the biblical exegesis of Origen, the sophisticated symbolic theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and the rich spiritual anthropology of Greek Christian asceticism inspired by the Cappadocian Fathers.
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• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: New World Paradoxes
• 1. Saint-John de Crevecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America
• 2. Lezay-Marnesia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age
• 3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crevecoeur and Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crevecoeur's Lettres d'un cultivateur americain (1784); the "uchronotopia"-the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution-of Lezay-Marnesia's Lettres ecrites des rives de l'Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind Francois-Rene Chateaubriand's idealization of America in Voyage en Amerique (1827) and Memoires d'outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors' liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.
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• al-Mujallad al-awwal Sūrat al-Fātiḥah - Sūrat al-Tawbah
• al-mujallad al-thānī Sūrat Yūnus - Sūrat al-Zumar
• al-mujallad al-thālith Sūrat Ghāfir - Sūrat al-Nās.

• المجلد الاول سورة الفاتحة - سورة التوبة المجلد الثاني سورة يونس - سورة الزمر المجلد الثالث سورة غافر - سورة الناس.

• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Sounds Outside: Harmonics and Acoustics in Theophrastus' Time
• 2 Sounds Inside: Qualities, Affections, and the Soul
• 3 Theophrastus' Thought on Music in Context
• 2 The Sources
• 1 Philodemus, c. 110-40 BC
• 2 Apollonius, II cent. BC
• 3 Plutarch, c. 45-120 AD
• 4 Aulus Gellius, c. 130-180 AD
• 5 Athenaeus of Naucratis, III cent. AD
• 6 Censorinus, III cent. AD
• 7 Porphyry, III-IV cent. AD
• 8 Aelius Festus Aphthonius, III-IV cent. AD
• 9 Siwan al-hikma, IX-X cent. AD
• 3 Titles of Books
• 4 The Texts
• 1 Harmonics
• 2 Musicians
• 3 Music and the Soul
• 4 Music and the Human Body Bibliography Index of Relevant Words Index of Ancient Names, Places, Authors and Passages Cited Index of Relevant Matters.
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Among the many subjects on which Theophrastus wrote, music is one of the most fascinating, as is testified by the sources discussed in this volume. Although scanty, the material we have-sixteen texts altogether, most of which are indirect testimonies-gives an idea of the originality and modernity of Theophrastus' thought on music, and makes us regret that we do not know more. Our philosopher conceives of music as something that originates from a movement in the soul caused by passions and comes into existence through the body. Accordingly, he is interested in performance-i.e. the way in which musical expression is brought to the listener-and its effects on the soul and the body-e.g. musical therapy.
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Treatise on Sanskrit poetics, as interpreted by the Chaitanya school in Vaishnavism.

• Editions of ancient Latin authors. Julius Firmicus, Astronomica; Manilius, Astronomica (October 17, 1499)
• Lucretius (December 1500)
• Prudentius, Prosper, John of Damascus, Christian poets, volume 1 (January 1501)
• Vergil (April 1501)
• Horace (May 1501)
• Juvenal, Persius (August 1501)
• Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (January 1502)
• Cicero, Letters to friends (April 1502)
• Lucan (April 1502)
• Sedulius, Iuvencus, Arator, Christian poets, volume 2 (June 1502)
• Statius (August 1502)
• Valerius Maximus (October 1502)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses (October 1502)
• Ovid, Heroides, Amores, Ars amandi, Remedia amoris, etc. (December 1502)
• Ovid, Fasti, Tristia, Ex ponto (February 1503)
• Origen, Homilies (after April 4, 1503)
• Vergil (December 1505)
• Pliny the Younger, Letters (November 1508)
• Horace (after March 30, 1509)
• Sallust (April 1509)
• Cicero, Letters to Atticus, Brutus and his brother Quintus (June 1513)
• Festus, On the meaning of archaic words (November 1513)
• Julius Caesar (December 1513)
• Cicero, Rhetorical works (March 1514)
• Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, On agriculture (May 1514)
• Quintilian (August 1514)
• Vergil (October 1514)
• Lucretius (January 1515) --

• Editions of humanistic authors. Aldus Manutius, Instructional principles of Latin grammar (March 5, 1493)
• Lorenzo Maioli, Gleanings in dialectics (July 1497)
• Angelo Poliziano, Complete works (July 1498)
• Niccolò Perotti, Cornucopiae (July 1499)
• Aldus Manutius, Rudiments of Latin grammar (February--June 1501)
• Gianfrancesco Pico, On imagination (April 1501)
• Giorgio Interiano, The land and customs of the Zygians (October 1502)
• Giovanni Pontano, Urania, Meteora, The gardens of the Hesperides etc. (May--August 1505)
• Adriano Castellesi, On hunting (September 1505)
• Erasmus of Rotterdam, Adages (September 1508)
• Tito and Ercole Strozzi, Poems (January 1513)
• Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia (September 1514) --

• Appendices. Letter to Aldus (Spring 1497) / Lorenzo Maioli
• Letter to Valerio Superchio (March 1, 1499) / Girolamo Avanzi
• Letter to Aldus Manutius (December 20, 1501) / Sigismund Thurzó
• Warning to the typographers of Lyons (March 16, 1503) / Aldus Manutius
• Letter to Giuliano de' Medici (April 1513) / Giovanni Giocondo
• Letter to Pope Leo X (May 15, 1514) / Giovanni Giocondo
• Eulogy of Aldus Manutius (April 1515) / Giambattista Egnazio
• The authorship of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (September 19, 1491) / Raffaele Regio
• The authorship of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (1515/16) / Niccolò Angeli of Bucine
• Aldus on how to assemble your own bilingual text / by Randall McLeod.

"Aldus enjoyed widespread fame as a scholar-printer-publisher. Aldus' mission in life was less to display his own erudition than to serve the scholarly needs of his contemporaries, whether they were young students, educated readers, learned academics or distinguished authors. To this end Aldus accomplished much; his contribution to the promotion of classical languages and literature was a considerable one, and was recognized as such by his contemporaries. This volume contains editions of Ancient Latin authors, Humanistic authors, and others."-- Provided by publisher.

Arabic literature; history and criticism.

Hadith; authorities; criticism, interpretation, etc.

"הפירושים במהדורה זו נכתבו לפני כחמש מאות שנה באיטליה על ידי מחבר לא ידוע והם חלק מחיבור מקיף על חמשת חומשי התורה. החיבור האנונימי התפרסם בעולם המחקר בשלהי המאה התשע עשרה, והעסיק בעיקר את חוקרי התלמוד והמדרש שהתעניינו בנוסח המדרשים המצוטט בו". -- from the introduction.

Grammatical analysis of commentaries of Sankaracarya on Prasthanatrayi (Brahmasūtra, Bhagavadgītā, Upanishad).

• Introduction
• Life and works
• Praxagoras and the history of medicine and philosophy
• The present study
• Part I. The fragments
• Introduction to the fragments and source-authors
• The fragments
• The source-authors
• Part II. The doctrines of Praxagoras
• Praxagoras on arteries and pulse
• What are the arteries?
• The origins of Praxagoras' conception of arteries
• The role of pneuma
• Conclusion
• The doctrines of Praxagoras
• Praxagoras in context : the place of his doctrines in the history of Greco-Roman medicine and philosophy.

The distinction that Praxagoras of Cos (4th-3rd c. BC) made between arteries and veins and his views on pulsation and pneuma are two significant turning points in the history of ideas and medicine. In this book Orly Lewis presents the fragmentary evidence for this topic and offers a fresh analysis of Praxagoras' views on the soul and the functions of the heart and pneuma. In so doing, she highlights the empirical basis of Praxagoras' views and his engagement with earlier medical debates and with Aristotle's physiology. The study consists of an edition and translation of the relevant fragments (some absent from the standard 1958 edition) followed by a commentary and a synthetic analysis of Praxagoras' views and their place in the history of medicine and ideas.
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• Res publica-princeps di Cicerone
• Iudicia legitima, arbitria honoraria e Advoatio di pro quinto roscio comoedo, 5,15 nel sistema lessicale-giuridico di Cicerone
• Note alla scienza nuova di G.B. Vico
• Recht e Gerechtiskeit nel Faust di Goethe
• Mantissa: Ius naturale di Ulpiano.

Senecas Schrift "De beneficiis" ist einzigartig in der uns überlieferten Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike. Gleichwohl gehört "De beneficiis" in eine lange Reihe ? für uns leider nicht überlieferter ? themengleicher Traktate, die ebenfalls von Stoikern verfasst wurden. Das Interesse an der Materie entspringt deren Relevanz für die stoische Ethik: Diese kreist um die Frage gemeinschaftlichen Miteinanders, welches als die dem Menschen gemäße Lebensform gilt. 0In der römischen Literatur finden sich ? wenngleich weniger ausführlich und mit je anderem Fokus ? bei Cicero und Laktanz ebenfalls stoisch rückgebundene Annäherungen an die Thematik. Doch wenngleich Cicero, Seneca und Laktanz die Überzeugung der gemeinschaftsstiftenden Kraft von Wohltaten teilen, sind ihre Begründungen, in welcher Weise wohltätiges Verhalten gemeinschaftliches Miteinander befördert, sehr verschieden. Und auch in ihren Vorstellungen, welche Form von Gemeinschaft durch Wohltaten gestiftet bzw. gestärkt wird, unterscheiden sie sich maßgeblich voneinander.

• Text and translation / Jeffrey C. Anderson
• The Harvard manuscript and the history of the Horologion of the Greek liturgical psalter / Stefano Parenti ; translated from the Italian.

• Accounts and inventories of the Revels Office, 1541-1546 / edited by Eleanor Lowe, Martin Wiggins, and Janette Dillon
• Two London Lord Mayor's Shows by John Squire (1620) and John Taylor (1634) / edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson
• Entertainment and poems by Lady Rachel Fane / edited by Marion O'Connor
• The Amazon by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury / edited by Cristina Malcolmson, Matteo Pangallo, and Eugene Hill.

Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society's pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents relating to English theatre and drama before 1642. It is likely to be of special interest not only to early theatre historians but to those working on Tudor and Stuart court and civic culture, manuscript writing, household drama and early modern women's writing, as it publishes new material in each of these fields. The book includes items such as Revels Office accounts, a playscript fragment, entertainments, poems and civic shows. Many of these documents are previously unpublished, and have been freshly edited and transcribed; each has an introduction giving details of its date, authorship and historical importance. The volume will be essential reading for postgraduates and university teachers in early modern drama, theatre history and women's writing.
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How do sounds reach the soul? How does the soul judge them? How can the movement of a melody be accounted for? These and others are the questions that Porphyry of Tyre tries to answer in his Commentary on Claudius Ptolemy's Harmonics. This book collects the vast amount of philological work that has been carried out on this imposing work since Ingemar Düring's 1932 edition and presents the reader with a reliable and up-to-date text.

• Table of Contents; Note to the Reader; Abbreviations and Sigla; Select Bibliography; Introduction; Introduction; The Genesis Commentary among the Works of Didymus; Text of the Commentary on Genesis; Didymus's Biblical Text; Didymus's Approach to Scripture and Style of Commentary; Didymus as Interpreter of Genesis; Theological Accents of the Commentary on Genesis; Significance of Didymus's Commentary on Genesis; Commentary on Genesis; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen.

• Chapter SeventeenIndices; Index of Proper Names; Index of Holy Scripture.

"Blind since early childhood, the Egyptian theologian and monk Didymus (ca. 313-398) wielded a masterful knowledge of Scripture, philosophy, and previous biblical interpretation, earning the esteem of his contemporaries Athanasius, Antony of Egypt, Jerome, Rufinus, and Palladius, as well as the historians Socrates and Theodoret in the decades following his death. Certain features of the Genesis commentary, unfortunately not preserved in its entirety, seem to indicate that it may have been Didymus's earliest work. Not only is he silent in regard to his other works, but remarks on specific heresies as well as christological interpretations occur much less frequently here than in his Zechariah commentary. Moreover, the heavier reliance on Philo and Origen may indicate relative inexperience. Whereas Didymus specifically names Philo in this commentary, he never identifies Origen as one of his sources even when quoting the latter verbatim. Like Origen, he rejects anthropomorphic interpretations and proceeds to an allegorical approach when the literal meaning repels him. He does not, however, neglect the literal-historical level; see, for example, his examination of the story of the Flood. All three of Origen's levels of interpretation--literal, moral, and allegorical--are mobilized here. This previously untranslated text is crucial for studies of the fourth century and of the monumental influence of Origen." --Provided by publisher.

Islamic law; interpretation and construction; early works to 1800.

• Prefatory note / by James Hankins
• Introduction
• Prefaces. I. Constantine Lascaris, Grammar (March 8, 1495) ; II. Musaeus, Hero and Leander (ca. 1495/97) ; III. Aristotle, Organon (November 1, 1495) ; IV. Theodore Gaza, Introduction to grammar; Apollonius Dyscolus, On syntax (December 25, 1495) ; V. Theocritus, Hesiod, Theognis, Selected works (February 1496) ; VI. The treasury, The cornucopia of Amalthea, and The Gardens of Adonis (August 1496) ; VII. Aristode, Natural philosophy (February 1497) ; VIII. Aristotle, Zoological works (June 1, 1497) ; IX. Aristotle, Metaphysics, mechanics, and problems; Theophrastus, Botanical writings (June 1, 1497) ; X. Joannes Crastonus, Greek dictionary (December 1497) ; XI. Urbano da Belluno, Greek grammar (January 1498) ; XII. Aristotle, Moral philosophy (June 1498) ; XIII. Aristophanes, Nine comedies (July 13, 1498) ; XIV. The Greek epistolographers (April 17, 1499) ; XV. Dioscorides, The materials of medicine; Nicander, Theriaca and Alexipharmaca (July 8, 1499) ; XVI. Julius Firmicus Maternus, Astronomica; Marcus Manilius, Astronomica; Aratus, Phaenomena; Proclus, Sphaera (October 14, 1499) ; XVII. Constantine Lascaris, The eight parts of speech (December 1501?) ; XVIII. Stephanus Byzantius, On cities (March 18, 1502) ; XIX. Julius Pollux of Naucraris, Onomasticon (April 11, 1502) ; XX. Thucydides, Histories (May 14, 1502) ; XXI. Sophocles, Seven tragedies (August 1502) ; XXII. Herodotus, Histories (September 1502) ; XXIII. Euripides, Seventeen tragedies (February 1503) ; XXIV. Ammonius of Alexandria, On Aristotle's "De interpretatione" (October 17, 1503) ; XXV. Xenophon, Hellenica; Pletho, Events in Greece after the Battle of Mantinea; Herodian, History from the death of Marcus Aurelius; Greek Scholia on Thucydides (November 14, 1503) ; XXVI. John Philoponus, Commentary on the posterior analytics; Anoriymous, Commentary on the posterior analytics (March 1504) ; XXVII. Aristotle and Theophrastus, Zoological and botanical writings; Pseudo-Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata, translated into Latin by Theodore Gaza (March 27, 1504) ; XXVIII. Philostratus, Life cf Apollonius of Tyana; Eusebius of Caesarea, Against Hierocles (May 1504) ; XXIX. Gregory of Nazianzus, Poetry (June 1504) ; XXX. Homer, Iliad (October 31, 1504) ; XXXI. Homer, Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, Hymns (October 31, 1504) ; XXXII. Demosthenes, Sixty-two speeches; Libanius, Life of Demosthenes and summaries of the speeches; Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes (October 1504) ; XXXIII. Hours in praise of the most Blessed Virgin; Seven penitential psalms; Athanasian creed; Sacrifice in praise of the most Holy Virgin (July 1505) ; XXXIV. Aesop's Fables and related texts (October 1505) ; XXXV. The Greek rhetoricians, volume 1 (November 1508) ; XXXVI. Plutarch, Moralia (March 1509) ; XXXVII. The Greek rhetoricians, volume 2 (May 21, 1509) ; XXXVIII. Chrysoloras, Erotemata (1512) ; XXXIX. Constantine Lascaris, The eight parts of speech (New edition, October 1512) ; XL. Pindar, Odes; Callimachus, Hymns; Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the world; Lycophron, Alexandra (January 1513) ; XLI. The Greek orators, volume 1 (April 1513) ; XLII. The Greek orators, volume 2 (May 6, 1513) ; XLIII. Plato, Complete works (September 1513) ; XLIV. Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on the topics of Aristotle (February 15, 1514) ; XLV. Suidas, Lexicon (February 1514) ; XLVI. Hesychius, Lexicon (August 1514) ; XLVII. Athenaeus, The learned banqueters (August 1514)
• Appendices. I. Marsilio Ficino on textual errors in his translations of Platonica (July 1, 1497) ; II. Musurus on Aristophanes (1498) ; III. Musurus on the Epistolographi graeci (1499) ; IV. William Grocyn's letter to Aldus (August 27, [1499]) ; V. Statutes of the New Academy (1502?) ; VI. Aldus' preface to Bessarion's In calumniatorem Platonis (July 1503) ; VII. Letter of Scipione Forteguerri to Aldus in the 1503 edition of the Greek anthology ; VIII. The title page of Aldus' Aesop (October 1505) ; IX. Aldus' preface to Erasmus' translation of Euripides (December 1507) ; X. Musurus' poem on Plato, in the Complete works (1513).

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