Book Series Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, vol. 6

Synesios von Kyrene: Politik – Literatur – Philosophie

Helmut Seng, Lars Hoffmann (eds)

  • Pages: 503 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Illustrations:24 b/w
  • Language(s):German, English, French
  • Publication Year:2013

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The present volume collects the papers presented at the conference "Synesios von Kyrene: Politik – Literatur – Philosophie", held at the University of Constance in November 2008.

Summary

Philosopher and man of letters, Lybian magnate, political writer in Constantinople, pupil of Hypatia the neoplatonist, and eventually metropolitan bishop of Ptolemais — Synesius of Cyrene is among the most interesting figures of Late Antiquity.

The present volume brings together the papers presented at the conference “Synesios von Kyrene: Politik – Literatur – Philosophie”, held at the University of Constance in November 2008. They offer a broad approach to selected aspects concerning Synesius’ works as well as to the historical background, philosophical contexts, and reception in scholarship and literature, from Late Antiquity to the present.

Helmut Seng is Associate Professor at the University of Constance and Lecturer at the Institute of Classical Philology at the University of Frankfurt. Main research interests include Synesius and the Chaldaean Oracles as well as aspects of form and of intertextuality in Greek and Latin literature.

Lars Hoffmann was a researcher at the University of Mainz, where he taught in all fields of Byzantine studies. Since 2010 he has been a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History at Frankfurt and in collaboration with other scholars, he is responsible for a new edition of a collection of Byzantine legal sources. Main research interests include the cultural history of Byzantium as well as the tradition and reception of ancient and Byzantine Greek texts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Vorwort

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

 

Detlev Kreikenbom

Kyrene und Ptolemaïs zur Zeit des Synesios

 

Lars Martin Hoffmann

Die Lebenswelt des Synesios von Kyrene – ein historischer Überblick

 

Carlotta Amande

Il Lexikon di Sinesio: presentazione ed esemplificazioni dal De regno

 

Karen Piepenbrink

Selbstverständnis und Selbstdarstellung des Synesios von Kyrene als Bischof

 

Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer

Zum Werkcharakter der Briefe des Synesios von Kyrene

 

Michiel Op de Coul

Aspects of paideia in Synesius’ Dion

 

Helmut Seng

An den Haaren herbeigezogen. Sophistische Argumentation im Encomium calvitii

 

Idalgo Baldi

Ordine o disordine negli Inni di Sinesio?

 

Ugo Criscuolo

Sinesio di Cirene fra neoplatonismo e teologia patristica

 

Samuel Vollenweider

„Ein Mittleres zwischen Vater und Sohn.“ Zur Bedeutung des Neuplatonikers Porphyrios für die Hymnen des Synesios

 

Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler

Synesios und die Theurgie

 

Lucia Saudelli

Un dit d’Héraclite dans le traité Sur les Songes de Synésios de Cyrène 

 

Aglae Pizzone

Heidnische und christliche Träume: Versteckte Polemik in Synesios, De insomniis

 

Denis Roques †

Lecteurs de Synésios, de Byzance à nos jours (VIe-XXIe s.)

 

Foteini Kolovou

Ein Bischof kat‘oikonomian in spätbyzantinischen Urteilen: Synesios von Kyrene und Nikephoros Gregoras’ Protheoria zu De insomniis

 

Diether Roderich Reinsch

Bemerkungen zu einigen byzantinischen ‚Fürstenspiegeln’ des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts

 

Kurt Smolak

Die Hymnen des Synesios und der lateinische Westen

 

Literaturverzeichnis

 

Abkürzungen

 

Ausgaben, Kommentare, Übersetzungen

 

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