Dawn LaValle

STUDIES OF PAIN - (D.) King Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture. Pp. xii + 291. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-881051-3.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 23-07-2018

DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X18001567

Early Christian Women

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 04-08-2022

DOI: 10.1017/9781009047067

Abstract: In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. The included case studies are three women who feature in both narrative and dialogic texts: Thecla, Macrina the Younger and Monica. Based on these ex les, the author demonstrates that the narrative sources tend to eschew secular education, while the dialogic sources are open to displays of secular knowledge. Philosophy was not only seen as a way of life, but sometimes also as a mode of educated argumentation. The author further argues that these female philosophers were held up in their femininity as models for imitation by both women and men.

Contesting Aristotle : Science, theology and the resurrection of the body in Methodius of Olympus' De Resurrectione and the Dialogue of Adamantius

Publisher: Brill

Date: 22-07-2021

DOI: 10.1163/15700720-BJA10034

Abstract: The contest over the resurrection of the body used the scientific authority of Aristotle as ammunition on both sides. Past scholars have read Methodius of Olympus as displaying an anti-Aristotelian bias. In contrast, through close reading of the entire text with attention to characterization and development of argument, I prove that Methodius of Olympus’ dialogue the De Resurrectione utilizes Aristotelian biology as a morally neutral tool. To put this into higher relief, I compare Methodius’ dialogue with the anonymous Dialogue of Adamantius , a text directly dependent upon the Methodius’ De Resurrectione , but which rejects arguments based on scientific reasoning. Reading Methodius’ De Resurrectione with greater attention to the whole and putting it in the context of its nearest parallel text retells the traditional story of early Christian resistance to Aristotle. Methodius of Olympus’ characters, although they view scientific knowledge as subordinate to philosophy, see it as neutral in and of itself.

Divine Breastfeeding: Milk, Blood, and Pneuma in Clement of Alexandria’s Paedagogus

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1353/JLA.2015.0021

Becoming Female: Marrowy Semen and the Formative Mother in Methodius of Olympus's Symposium

Publisher: Project MUSE

Date: 2019

DOI: 10.1353/EARL.2019.0018

Coming Late to the Table

Publisher: De Gruyter

Date: 04-12-2017

DOI: 10.1515/9783110434293-004

GRAECO-ROMAN EDUCATION AND THE NEW TESTAMENT - (M.R.) Hauge, (A.W.) Pitts (edd.) Ancient Education and Early Christianity. (Library of New Testament Studies 533.) Pp. xiv + 210. London an

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 27-12-2016

DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X16002754

The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 15-11-2019

DOI: 10.1017/9781108657389

Hypatia of Alexandria

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Date: 2020

DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-158954-6

Australian Catholic University

Location: Australia

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Princeton University

Location: United States of America

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University Of Oxford

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100854

Start Date: 2022

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $380,204.00

Funder: Australian Research Council