Favorinus and Herodes Atticus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Aulus Gellius ◽  
Herodes Atticus

Favorinus is chiefly known, besides the brief account in Philostratus and three speeches of his own composition, from his admirer Aulus Gellius and his enemy M. Antonius Polemon, who dilates on his lurid private life; this apparently made Hadrian, with whom he had a fraught relationship, banish him to Chios. His engagement with philosophy was sufficient to bring him into conflict with Galen. His close friend Herodes, a man of high birth and immense wealth, enjoyed a great reputation as an orator that did not secure the survival of any speeches barring one miserable effort almost certainly spurious. Despite his munificence, his overbearing power at Athens was much resented by its upper class; his lack of self-control, manifested in his excessive displays of mourning, brought him more than once into court, but he never lost the protection of his former pupil Marcus Aurelius.

scholarly journals Factors of Professional Activity of Educators in Pedagogical Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-398
Author(s):  
Vesna Kravarusić
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Study Program ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic

The indisputable importance of early learning as well as the accepted documents of international organizations dealing with education have an impact on educational policy in the Republic of Serbia. Systemic solutions support the professional progress of educators/preschool teachers. Clearly limited and publicly recognizable areas of practice, accumulated fund of knowledge acquired through education, experience, which is expanded and deepened by continuous improvement and exchange with the environment; independent and/or cooperative decisions on timely and correct actions; meeting internal and external standards (self / control); ethics in personal and professional life are characterized by professional/competent actions of educators. Factors that modulate the level of competence of educators are the status of society, the immediate social context, the quality of the study program, professional environment, continuous professional development, pedagogical practice, personal characteristics of educators, job satisfaction and private life. The paper critically examines the key elements of the structure of factors in the Republic of Serbia in order to put light on weak points and their improvement. The research of a set of macrosystemic and subsystemic factors points out to the necessity of restructuring, improvement of the quality of selection, basic education of educators, interventions in the offer of trainings in accordance with the real needs of educators. Ensuring an effective, respectful climate in the preschool institution is necessary for microsystem changes. Pedagogical implications are contained in the creation of conditions for the development of participatory relations, critical observation, but also the emancipation and independence of professionally accomplished educators.

Stoicism and the Principate

1975 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 7-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Brunt
Keyword(s):  
Early Education ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Marcus Aurelius

The wide circulation of Stoic ideas among Romans of the upper class from the time of Panaetius in the second century B.C. to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 161–80) is a familiar fact. Few Romans of note can indeed be marked down as committed Stoics, and even those like Seneca who avowedly belonged to the school borrowed ideas from other philosophies. Still, even if eclecticism was the mode, the Stoic element was dominant. Stoicism permeated the writings of authors like Virgil and Horace who professed no formal allegiance to the sect, and became part of the culture that men absorbed in their early education. One might think that it exercised an influence comparable in some degree with that which Christianity has often had on men ignorant or careless of the nicer points of systematic theology. It has often been supposed that it did much to humanize Roman law and government. That is a contention of which I should be rather sceptical, but it is not my present theme.

Oriental Senators in the Service of Rome: A Study of Imperial Policy down to the Death of Marcus Aurelius

1929 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Gradual Increase ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Herodes Atticus ◽  
Greek East ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Eastern Half ◽  
Large Output

The careers of Roman senators born in the Eastern half of the Empire are interesting and worthy of study for several reasons. They include men who influenced affairs in such different ways as Herodes Atticus and Avidius Cassius, and the rarity of the honour, in the earlier cases at least, led to an unusually large output of inscriptions which form a good source of information as well as an attractive field for conjecture. Besides this, the purely prosopographical interest, it is possible by following up and seeking to account for the gradual increase of the number in connection with other evidence, to supplement our rather meagre knowledge of life in the Greek East, and also, in the period before the death of M. Aurelius, to watch the working of the diarchy at a time when the Senate's prestige was at its highest and the emperors were most concerned to maintain its efficiency.

All for the Union

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifton Hood
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
The City

For all the social chaos that phenomenal economic growth and heavy immigration had produced earlier in the century, upper-class New Yorkers had generally been optimistic that hoi polloi possessed enough self-control and independence to take direction from their betters and accept their proper place in the body politic. But the New York City draft riots of 1863 – the worse urban disorder in American history – seemed to show that entire communities lacked the self-discipline and orderliness required of the citizenry of a democratic nation and instead were prone to a savagery that had ripped the city apart. Drawing on their memories of the draft riots and on Victorian cultural values, the upper class utilized the Civil War to counter the blurring of class boundaries and social credentials caused by urban growth of the first half of the century. They came to classify came to classify many workers and immigrants as dangerous classes that threatened the social order- and themselves as a community of heritage and feeling that provided leadership in government, the economy, and society. At bottom these representations involved social control, and upper-class people used them to help harden class lines and gain an understanding of themselves and the rest of urban society that was coherent and compelling.

Fronto and His Circle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Fleury
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
The Future ◽  
Herodes Atticus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Imperial Family

Fronto, the great orator of the second century and teacher of Latin rhetoric to the future emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, while not fitting Philostratus’s definition of a sophist, did practice some sophistic genres and shares with his Greek homologues an epideictic vision of rhetoric, a love for archaisms and an interest in similar themes. This chapter attempts to show the connections that Fronto maintains with the sophists whom he knows, as seen in the Correspondence (Herodes Atticus, Favorinus, Polemon), and those whom he encounters, as shown in Aulus Gellius’s Attic Nights, and to illustrate the commonality of thought and literary style between the Roman orator and the Greek sophists. Attitudes to Greek and political power are analyzed to show the strategies adopted by Fronto to define his relations with the imperial family and to situate himself in the cultural geography of his time.

Mithradates' Antidote – A Pharmacological Ghost

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Totelin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
History Of

AbstractTwo kinds of sources are available to the historian to reconstruct the first centuries of the history of Mithradates' antidote: biographical information on Mithradates' interests in medicine, and a series of recipes. In this paper I argue that we cannot reconstruct the original recipe of Mithridatium from our existing sources. Instead, I examine how the Romans remodelled the history of the King's death and used the royal name to create a "Roman" drug. This drug enjoyed a huge popularity in the first centuries of the Roman Empire. An Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, consumed it as well as members of the upper class; and many highly literate physicians recommended it notwithstanding the medical sect they were belonging to. With all its expensive ingredients, and its claim to work as a panacea, Mithridatium responded to a real demand in a Roman Empire at its commercial and political apogee.

The Todhunter School

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Herring Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Private School ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
First Lady

In 1926 Eleanor and Marion purchased a private school for upper-class New York girls. Marion was principal and Eleanor became one of the most popular teachers, taking her students on field trips to visit court rooms and tenement districts to broaden their educations. Eleanor commuted back and forth to Albany, where she presided as First Lady during FDR's two two terms as NY Governer, assisted by his close friend and secretary, "Missy" LeHand.

French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas.

scholarly journals New Facts about M. A. Alexandrova, the First Head of Ryazan Teachers’ Institute for Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
В.В. Митрофанов
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
World War ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Female Head ◽  
The Family

Семья Постниковых не одно поколение верно служила России: мужчины-офицеры отдавали жизни на ратных полях Русско-японской, Великой Отечественной войн. Женщины оставили заметный след в сфере образования. М. А. Постникова (после замужества в 1903 году Александрова) вошла в историю как первая женщина-начальница первого женского учительского института, открытого в Рязани. Ее сестра Анна Алексеевна Наркович возглавляла гимназии в Смоленской и Рязанской губерниях. Многое в личной жизни и профессиональной деятельности Марии Алексеевны стало известно благодаря ее переписке с выдающимися учеными — С. Ф. Платоновым и А. Е. Пресняковым. Себя она считала верной ученицей первого и близким другом второго, который не раз упоминал ее имя в своих письмах. Поработав в Петербурге, проехав Россию до Хабаровска и обратно, в 1915 году М. А. Александрова после неожиданного назначения переехала в Рязань, где работала почти 10 лет. Здесь же и закончилась ее жизнь в 50 лет. О последних днях Марии Алексеевны известно из двух публикуемых нами в статье писем ее родной сестры Анны Алексеевны на имя Надежды Николаевны Платоновой. В письмах упомянуты и другие родственники, что позволяет уточнить и конкретизировать имеющиеся о них скудные сведения. For many generations the Postnikovs served Russia truly and well. Men of the family fought in the battles of the Russo-Japanese War and World War II, while women of the family were prominent educators. M. A. Postnikova (known by her married name M. A. Alexandrova) is the first female head of the first teachers’ institute for women in Ryazan. Her sister Anna Alekseyevna Narkovich headed gymnasiums in the Smolensk Region and in the Ryazan Region. We know about her private life through her correspondence with such prominent scholars as S. F. Platonov and A. E. Presnyakov. Being a devoted student of the former and a close friend of the latter she was often mentioned in A. E. Presnyakov’s letters. Having worked in St. Petersburg, and having traveled across the country to Khabarovsk and back, M. A. Alexandrova moved to Ryazan where she was appointed head of the teachers’ institute and where she worked for 10 years. She passed away in Ryazan in 1915 at the age of 50. Her last days are known to us due to the letters of her sister Anna Alekseyevna to Nadezhda Nikolayevna Platonova. The letters contain information about other relatives too, which provides more specific data.

William Henry Lang, 1874-1960

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Young Wife

The subject of this memoir did not leave any personal record with the Royal Society, but I have been fortunate in having the assistance of his niece, Mrs Margaret E. Franklin; Professor T. B. L. Webster, who was a close friend for the last 25 years of W. H. Lang’s life; the late Lord Stopford, who was also a close friend and was Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University during the last seven years of Lang’s tenure of the Chair of Cryptogamic Botany, and Professor Wardlaw, who succeeded to that Chair when Lang retired. To all these I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness for their unstinted help which was the more valuable since Lang was not one who talked about himself and, indeed, was rather uncommunicative about his private life. W. H. Lang’s father was Thomas Bisland Lang, the son of William and Joan Lang who were married in 1825 and lived at Bridge-of-Weir, Renfrewshire. This couple had a typically large nineteenth century family of eleven children of whom Thomas Bisland was the youngest but one. A brother and a sister died in infancy, as was so frequent at that epoch, but Thomas’s sister Margaret lived to the age of 89 whilst his sister Mary lived to be 80, which, despite the fact that all but one of William Henry’s brothers died before they were 30, indicated that the stock was not potentially deficient in physical stamina. Nevertheless Thomas himself died at the age of 34, only two years after the birth of William Henry. The Baptismal Register records that our subject was born on 12 May 1874 at Withyham, Groombridge, Sussex. It was to this place that William’s father had come as a doctor with his young wife to establish a medical practice. After the untimely death of his father, the young baby and his mother returned to live at Bridge-of-Weir. Thus William was brought up in what must then, nearly 90 years ago, have been quite rural conditions for, even to-day, Bridge-of-Weir has a population of only just over 3000 inhabitants. The nearest city to their home was Glasgow, 14 miles away, a long distance when the only alternative to walking was a horse-drawn conveyance, since bicycles were a rarity till the close of the century.

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