1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996205745603316

Autore

Van Bladel Kevin Thomas

Titolo

The Arabic Hermes [[electronic resource] ] : from pagan sage to prophet of science / / Kevin van Bladel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612335365

0-19-970448-1

1-282-33536-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in late antiquity

Disciplina

135/.45

Soggetti

Theosophy

Gnosticism

Science, Ancient

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Documentation and Transliteration""; ""Part I: Background""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 The Ancient Greek Hermetica of Roman Egypt and Their European Reception""; ""1.2 The Reception of the Greek Hermetica in Antiquity""; ""1.3 The Birth of Arabic Scholarship and the Books of the Ancients in Bagdad""; ""1.4 Understanding the Terms Hermetic and Hermetism in the Arabic Context""; ""2. Hermes in Sasanian Iran""; ""2.1 Evidence for Hermes in Sasanian Magical Texts""; ""2.2 The Hermes of the Sasanian Astrologers""

""3.4 The Evidence for a Harranian Sabian Transmission of the Hermetica""""3.5 The End of the Harranian Sabians""; ""3.6 Conclusions""; ""Appendix to Chapter 3. The Harranians and India""; ""Part II: History of the Arabic Hermes""; ""4. The Three Hermeses""; ""4.1 The Earliest Form of the Arabic Legend of Three Hermeses""; ""4.2 Ancient Greek Antecedents to the Arabic Legend""; ""4.3 A Trail of Chronicles""; ""4.4 Annianus in Syriac and Arabic""; ""4.5 Abu Ma�šar as a Chronographer""; ""4.6 Other Aspects of the Hermes Legend""; ""4.7 The Third Hermes""; ""4.8 Conclusions""



""5. Hermes the Prophet""""5.1 The Heavenly Ascent of Hermes""; ""5.2 Hermes the Lawgiver: Hermes as Presented by al-Mubaššir ibn Fatik""; ""5.3 The Wisdom of the Arabic Hermes""; ""5.4 The Synthesis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and Beyond""; ""6. Conclusion: The Making of the Arabic Hermes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910594500203321

Autore

Xenophon <427/26- ca. 353 a. C.>

Titolo

Anabasi / Senofonte ; introduzione di Italo Calvino ; a cura di Franco Ferrari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : BUR, 2008

ISBN

978-88-17-02079-4

Descrizione fisica

276 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

BUR , Grandi classici

Disciplina

935.05

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

P2B 600 BUR XENOPH. 406B 2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791079603321

Titolo

Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns / / edited by Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

90-272-7070-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell, , 0166-0829 ; ; volume 210

Altri autori (Persone)

PaulIleana

Disciplina

410.367

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part 1. Verbal structure inside nominalizations -- part 2. The referent of nominalization -- part 3. The nature of the nominalizer.

Sommario/riassunto

Patterns of nominalization in Blackfoot are surveyed. It is demonstrated that two of these patterns behave like nouns while two others only partially behave like nouns. Degrees of nominality are analyzed within the assumption that there is a universal syntactic spine, a hierarchically organized set of categories, which are not intrinsically specified for nominality or verbality. They are category-neutral. Different nominalization patterns (and degrees of nominality) reduce to different ways of introducing the nominalizer: it may be introduced by a dedicated morphological marker (nominalization