Synesios von Kyrene

Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n.Chr.) ist eine Persönlichkeit mit vielen Facetten: Großgrundbesitzer und Familienvater, Philosoph und Hymnendichter, politisch und militärisch tätig, schließlich Bischof. Seine Briefe sind literarische Juwelen, lebensprühend, human, oft witzig, immer geschliffen formuliert. Sie geben Einblick in die sozialen, politischen, religiösen und intellektuellen Verhältnisse seiner Zeit und seines Umfelds, der Spätantike im östlichen Libyen. Für diesen Band sind 9 Briefe ausgewählt, die um einen gewissen Johannes kreisen; ungewiss muss bleiben, ob überall dieselbe Person gemeint ist. Diese Briefe sind satirisch, übermütig, besorgt, verzweifelt, ironisch; das Kernstück (Brief 43), eine tiefernste Mahnung an einen Johannes, der unter Mordverdacht steht, gründet sich auf eine religiöse Jenseitsvorstellung mit Bildern aus den Mythen Platons. Literarische, historische und religiöse Hintergründe werden in 6 Essays erläutert

Synesius, De insomniis

Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes – most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres –, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today

The “Pagans” of Late Antiquity

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Chapter 2 - Philology’s roommate: hermeneutics, antiquity, and the seminar

This chapter starts from the extraordinary historical circumstance that Schleiermacher and Schlegel, a theologian and classical scholar and philosopher, who both had a huge influence on the development of their disciplines and the institution of the university, shared lodgings as students. It explores their relationship, and the importance of it for their subsequent careers, and expands from this to consider how the seminary, as dominant theological educational institution, was overtaken in the university by the seminar – to explore how both educational forums show similar negotiations of the dynamic between personal, affective relationships and methodological rigour. It thus raises questions about how the public and the private, emotion and objectivity became values of scholarship between philology and theology in the universit

Chapter 2 - Philology’s roommate: hermeneutics, antiquity, and the seminar

This chapter starts from the extraordinary historical circumstance that Schleiermacher and Schlegel, a theologian and classical scholar and philosopher, who both had a huge influence on the development of their disciplines and the institution of the university, shared lodgings as students. It explores their relationship, and the importance of it for their subsequent careers, and expands from this to consider how the seminary, as dominant theological educational institution, was overtaken in the university by the seminar – to explore how both educational forums show similar negotiations of the dynamic between personal, affective relationships and methodological rigour. It thus raises questions about how the public and the private, emotion and objectivity became values of scholarship between philology and theology in the universit