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Protrepticus and is
Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

Protrepticus and its
Clement criticizes Greek paganism in the Protrepticus on the basis that its deities are both false and poor moral examples, and he attacks the mystery religions for their obscurantism and trivial rituals.

Protrepticus and Clement
Clement Protrepticus 12 ) who curses the Magians and others for their " impious rites ".
Clement of Alexandria in his Protrepticus talks about the " Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring forth from night to the light of day the lewd orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country.

Protrepticus and extensive
In the Protrepticus he displays an extensive knowledge of Greek mythology and mystery religions, which could only have arisen from the practise of his family's religion.

Protrepticus and .
* the Protrepticus ( Exhortation ) – written c. 195.
The Orphism ( religion ) | Orphic mysteries are used as an example of the false cults of Greek paganism in the Protrepticus.
The first having been dealt with in the Protrepticus, he devotes the Paedagogus to reflections on Christ's role in teaching us to act morally and to control our passions.
I. Praecepta, Protrepticus, Saturae, Scipio, Sota.
* Protrepticus, ed.
The works surviving only in fragments include the dialogues On Philosophy ( or On the Good ), Eudemus ( or On the Soul ), Protrepticus, On Justice, and On Good Birth.

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And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.
There is unceasing pressure, but its sources are immediate.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.
Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.
Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.
In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.
Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.
What one actually remembers is its greenness.
the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

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That is why the members of the beat generation proudly assume the title of the holy barbarians ; ;
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
In covert socialism -- toward which America is moving -- private enterprise retains the ownership title to industries but government thru direct intervention and excessive regulations actually controls them.
The medical title of `` Lobar Ventilation In Man '' by Drs. C. J. Martin and A. C. Young, covers a brief paper which is one part of a much larger effort to apply electronics to the study of the respiratory process.
The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.
This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.
When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.
The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.
There is no use at all in trying to follow it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses for identification.
There is fear in the fifties as his title suggests and as his competent drawings show.
What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.
`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.
Ah, what a title for the exhibition: The Eye is All ''!!
Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
A clear title to property is one that clearly states any obligation in the deed to the property.
After the records of the property have been traced and the title has been found clear, it is sometimes guaranteed, or insured.
After this is accomplished, no abstract of title is necessary.
If an affidavit is notarized or authenticated, it will also include a caption with a venue and title in reference to judicial proceedings.
For a reader to assign the title of author upon any written work is to attribute certain standards upon the text which, for Foucault, are working in conjunction with the idea of " the author function ".

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