Frederick E Brenk
Biographic Data
| ID | 963349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick E Brenk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick E |
| FAMILY NAME | Brenk |
| SIGNATURE | BRENK F E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifical Biblical Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investigating and Theorizing
A great deal has been written lately about materializing religion, with a particular focus on Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects within the Roman context. Small objects found in the temple offer a very different picture than the one many scholars have been presenting; most of these came from the Sacrarium, apparently a very sacred place. The Isiacs may have used the objects as part of a system of inclusion and exclusion. Moreover, they seem to ha…
The Second and Third Century
The Land of the Body
"Plutarch's "Lives
Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life
This is not a very self-sufficient use of quotations, but I hope it suggests how attitudes towards the simple life are not that simple. Dio himself is something of a paradox in this matter. Though he was a member of the upper class of his native city, Prusa, he embraced aspects of Cynic philosophy. During his exile under Domitian, he even lived, or imagined himself living, as a poor, travelling Cynic. His life, then, raises several problems.
Artemis of Ephesos
Artemis of Ephesos may or may not have many "breasts," a debatable point, but she certainly has two faces, or more properly, two bodies in both iconography and literature. 1 One body is that of the traditional virgin goddess, the huntress of myth, as found in other Greek poleis. The other body, despite the sweet virginal face resembling that of her outdoor namesake, seems to belong to an ancient Anatolian goddess. In one form Artemis skirts over …
Purpureos Spargam Flores’
The interplay of Greek and Roman motifs in the Marcellus eulogy at the end of the Sixth Book of the Aeneid presents a complicated study in literary history. The association of roses with the dead is more Roman than Greek, but perhaps not so much so as one might imagine. Roses are not entirely absent from the Greek milieu, and in fact Vergil apparently drew on Greek rose motifs for the eulogy. Archaeology reveals that roses were an important symbo…
Phaidra's Risky Horsemanship
Auorum Spes Et Purpurei Flores
The Meaning of Aphrodite
The Twofold Gleam
Most Beautiful Horror
Plutarchs Schriften über die Heilung der Seele
Artemis of Ephesos
Artemis of Ephesos may or may not have many "breasts," a debatable point, but she certainly has two faces, or more properly, two bodies in both iconography and literature. 1 One body is that of the traditional virgin goddess, the huntress of myth, as found in other Greek poleis. The other body, despite the sweet virginal face resembling that of her outdoor namesake, seems to belong to an ancient Anatolian goddess. In one form Artemis skirts over …
Auorum Spes Et Purpurei Flores
Purpureos Spargam Flores’
The interplay of Greek and Roman motifs in the Marcellus eulogy at the end of the Sixth Book of the Aeneid presents a complicated study in literary history. The association of roses with the dead is more Roman than Greek, but perhaps not so much so as one might imagine. Roses are not entirely absent from the Greek milieu, and in fact Vergil apparently drew on Greek rose motifs for the eulogy. Archaeology reveals that roses were an important symbo…
Plutarchs Schriften über die Heilung der Seele
Most Beautiful Horror
The Meaning of Aphrodite
The Twofold Gleam
Phaidra's Risky Horsemanship
Auorum Spes Et Purpurei Flores
Purpureos Spargam Flores’
The interplay of Greek and Roman motifs in the Marcellus eulogy at the end of the Sixth Book of the Aeneid presents a complicated study in literary history. The association of roses with the dead is more Roman than Greek, but perhaps not so much so as one might imagine. Roses are not entirely absent from the Greek milieu, and in fact Vergil apparently drew on Greek rose motifs for the eulogy. Archaeology reveals that roses were an important symbo…
Artemis of Ephesos
Artemis of Ephesos may or may not have many "breasts," a debatable point, but she certainly has two faces, or more properly, two bodies in both iconography and literature. 1 One body is that of the traditional virgin goddess, the huntress of myth, as found in other Greek poleis. The other body, despite the sweet virginal face resembling that of her outdoor namesake, seems to belong to an ancient Anatolian goddess. In one form Artemis skirts over …
Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life
This is not a very self-sufficient use of quotations, but I hope it suggests how attitudes towards the simple life are not that simple. Dio himself is something of a paradox in this matter. Though he was a member of the upper class of his native city, Prusa, he embraced aspects of Cynic philosophy. During his exile under Domitian, he even lived, or imagined himself living, as a poor, travelling Cynic. His life, then, raises several problems.
"Plutarch's "Lives
The Land of the Body
The Second and Third Century
Investigating and Theorizing
A great deal has been written lately about materializing religion, with a particular focus on Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects within the Roman context. Small objects found in the temple offer a very different picture than the one many scholars have been presenting; most of these came from the Sacrarium, apparently a very sacred place. The Isiacs may have used the objects as part of a system of inclusion and exclusion. Moreover, they seem to ha…
Art (8 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)