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“The romance narratives functioned as part of a cultural script that represented poverty, pain, and suffering as unauthentic human conditions estranging those experiencing them from legitimate society. Hagiographic discourse offered a radically different script and continued the work of martyr texts...”
Honestly I don’t remember Greek romance novels well enough to comment
— May 14, 2019 02:30AM
Honestly I don’t remember Greek romance novels well enough to comment
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Opponents had apparently suggested that in certain circumstances it might be impossible to separate out the flesh of two human bodies for the reconstitution of the resurrected body. They apparently proposed for an example the situation when animals eat human flesh and then in turn are themselves consumed by humans
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— May 16, 2019 02:22AM
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Martyrs often allude to the deaths they particularly fear. Later in the Passion, Saturus expresses his fear of the bears and hopes he will be finished off by one bite of a leopard (21.2). His concern is probably well-founded. Names of some of the bears are recorded: Homicida, Crudelis, Phobos (Robert 1982:247).
— May 16, 2019 02:10AM
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Epictetus picked out Heracles for praise because he could abandon his children without groaning or yearning for them (3.24.14) and censured Homer’s depiction of Odysseus sitting upon a rock and weeping for his wife (3.24.18).
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— May 16, 2019 01:33AM
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Epictetus had this to say about the person who could not control his sorrow about the loss of a city or a woman; “why does he who is at liberty to leave the banquet, and to play the game no longer keep on annoying himself by staying. Does he not stay like children only as long as he is entertained?”
— May 16, 2019 01:31AM
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Galen’s narratives in particular worked to create a cultural “self” as body—a body able to signify its inner life, but difficult to keep in order and needing outside supervision; in many instances, a sick body, needing a doctor. The cultural shift toward the body also worked to downplay differences of class and gender.
— May 15, 2019 07:23PM
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Graham Anderson has aptly caught the essence of the romance in his description of the central couple “as a single organism trying to unite themselves” (Anderson 1984:62). Rather than being about individuality, the romance was about how individuals are transformed into enduring social unities.
— May 15, 2019 06:31PM
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Origen’s rebuttal of Celsus made clear that Celsus had accused Christians of “being mad and stirring up for themselves tortures and death”
I enjoy the Roman confusion to Christianity. It’s very good. Valid tbh.
— May 14, 2019 07:59AM
I enjoy the Roman confusion to Christianity. It’s very good. Valid tbh.
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The traditional explanation for the emphasis on suffering in Christian texts has been that it reflected the desperate situation of a hounded community, but modern scholarship has called this explanation into question. Persecution in the second century appears to have been in T.D.Barnes’ words “local, sporadic and random” (Barnes 1968a:38).
— May 14, 2019 07:57AM
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The traditional explanation for the emphasis on suffering in Christian texts has been that it reflected the desperate situation of a hounded community, but modern scholarship has called this explanation into question. Persecution in the second century appears to have been in T.D.Barnes’ words “local, sporadic and random” (Barnes 1968a:38).
— May 14, 2019 07:57AM
