SAPERE VI: Human Community and Divine Order: The Borysthenes Speech

Human Community and Divine Order: The Borysthenes Speech, introduced, translated and provided with interpretative essays by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath / Balbina Bäbler / Maximilian Forschner / Albert F. de Jong, Darmstadt 2003.

Based on an autobiographical description of the city of Olbia as an outpost of Hellenic civilisation, the speech develops Platonic and Stoic ideas of good human community and expands them into an image of harmonious coexistence of gods and humans in a rational cosmos. The volume offers essays on the rhetorical description and archaeological reality, on the philosophical intentions, on the 'magician myth' and on historical Zoroastrianism.

Reviews:

• H. FLÜCKINGER, Schweizerischer Altphilologenverband, Bulletin 64 (September 2004), 38f.
• A. FÜRST, Theologische Revue Nr. 5, Jahrgang 100 (2004), 399f.
• A. GANGLOFF, L’Antiquité Classique 74 (2005), 318f.
• G. KRAPINGER, Museum Helveticum 61 (2004), 239.
• New Testament Abstracts 48/1 (2004), 219.
• B. ROCHETTE, Latomus LXIV (2005), 845f.
• Th. SCHMELLER, Biblische Zeitschrift 50 (2006), 299-301.
• Theologische Literaturzeitung 129 (2004), 67.
• M. WEIßENBERGER, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, Bd. LVII, 3./4. Heft (2005), 150-153.

Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther; Bäbler, Balbina; Forschner, Maximilian; de Jong, Albert
Composite volume; German, Ancient Greek
Published: 2003
Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt: Darmstadt
ISBN: 3-534-15572-6