Product Description: This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthoniuss standard Progymnasmata, a classroom guide on composition. The chreia, or anecdote, was a popular form that preserved the wisdom of philosophers, kings, generals, and sophists...read more

A professor of religion at the University of Southern California reveals the existence of a gospel of Mary that was known to early Christians but later suppressed by the Church, but not before some of its startling revelations filtered into medieval art and Church tradition. Reprint.

Product Description: Reading, writing an inflected language, and composing an argument were among the skills taught in Greco-Roman schools. At all three curricular levels students developed these skills by learning how to use a literary form known as the chreia, or anecdote...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The impact of Alexander the Great's legacy `was unsurpassed in terms of cultural impact for subsequent centuries'. This collection of twelve essays explores Alexander's cultural ideals that lived on after his death in various spheres of life, including education, literature, art, philosophy, music and the cultural imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Replacement for p. iv (copyright page) is included with this hard copy.

An English translation of a controversial second century document, Protevangelium Jacobi (Infancy Gospel of James), details the life of Mary and is accommpanied by a discussion of the text's origin and contents (view table of contents)

The infancy gospels reflect the early Christian interest in how Jesus was born and raised. The Infancy Gospel of James narrates the story of Mary, mother of Jesus—her birth, infancy and childhood, up to her pregnancy. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas recounts stories depicting Jesus as a petulant child prodigy. Featuring the acclaimed Scholars Version translation side-by-side with the original Greek texts, this dual language edition makes the infancy gospels readily available and truly accessible for the first time ever.

Product Description: Book by Hock, Ronald F., O'Neil, Edward N.