Texts in Context: The Realignment of the Eight Century
The Roman Empire—not as a concrete state, but as an idea—was about to take on quite a different shape.
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Texts in Context: The Surrender
Texts in Context:The Surrender By Gabriel Blanchard Into the established dichotomies of the Græco-Roman West and the Syro-Persian East, suddenly, out of the south, something new leapt forth
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Texts in Context: The Song of the Desert
The defining institution of antiquity had been the forum; that of early modernity would, perhaps, be a school. The path from the one to the other ran through a cloister.
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Texts in Context: The Long Dusk of Antiquity
Texts in Context:The Long Dusk of Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard The ancient world—from the morning glow on the Bronze Age, through the high noon of Periclean Athens and
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Texts in Context: Once, Now, and Forever
You can say what you like about the Emperor Nero. … No really, go ahead. The bloke’s dead, he can’t stop you.
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Texts in Context: The Pax Romana
Texts in ContextThe Pax Romana By Gabriel Blanchard “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” The Divine Logos Naturally it is impossible, in a format like this, to write
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Texts in Context: The Realm of the Second Temple
Texts in Context:The Realm of the Second Temple By Gabriel Blanchard Persia, Macedon, Seleucia, Egypt, and Rome strove for the empire of the earth; but one little province
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Texts in Context: Hellenistic Religion
Texts in Context:Hellenistic Religion By Gabriel Blanchard We here take final look over the Hellenistic age, focusing on the religious atmosphere between Alexander and Actium. 5. Hellenistic Religion:
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Texts in Context: Darkness on the Mountains
Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Mental Solitaire
Regrettably, we don’t always need someone else to lead us down the garden path of sophistry; we’re very capable walkers, thanks, and feel sure we can find it unassisted.
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