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Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far ...

Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studied in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.

Order and History, a comprehensive study of the order of human existence in society from ancient to modern times, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age.

In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Eric Voegelin breaks with the course he originally charted, in ...

Order and History, a comprehensive study of the order of human existence in society from ancient to modern times, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age.

In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Eric Voegelin breaks with the course he originally charted, in which man's existence in society and the corresponding symbolism of order were presented in historical succession. The analyses in the three previous volumes are valid as far as they go, Voegelin explains, but "the conception was untenable because it had not taken proper account of the important lines of meaning in history that did not run along lines of time".

The present volume treats history not as a stream of human beings and their actions in time, but as the process of man's participation in a flux of divine presence that has eschatological direction. "The process of history, and such order as can be discerned in it", says Voegelin, "is not a story to be told from the beginning to its happy, or unhappy,,end; it is a mystery in process of revelation".

The Ecumenic Age -- the age when the great religions, especially Christianity, originated -- denotes a period in the history of mankind that roughly extends from the rise of the Persian Empire to the fall of the Roman. "An epoch in history was marked indeed when the societies which had differentiated the truth of existence through revelation and philosophy succumbed, in pragmatic history, to new societies of the imperial type".

This collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity. The subjects all fall within the period of the Roman empire, and illustrate the importance of ...

This collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity. The subjects all fall within the period of the Roman empire, and illustrate the importance of individual personality in literature for an age in which few individuals could hope to achieve political significance.