Diodorus Siculus on Rhetoric

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V. Osipova
Keyword(s):  
Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus, 1. 47. 3

1948 ◽  
Vol 62 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 114-114
Author(s):  
J. Gwyn Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Diodorus Siculus

scholarly journals «Мертвые Цари всегда должны по смерти своей быть судимы»: Посмертная судьба одного древнеегипетского обычая в русской и европейской словесности XVI – XIX вв. [“Dead Kings Must Always be Judged after Their Demise”: The Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Custom in the Russian and European Literature of the 16th to 19th Centuries]

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 9-47
Author(s):  
Maria Neklyudova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
French Literature ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Diodorus Siculus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

In his Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus described a peculiar Egyptian custom of judging all the dead (including the pharaohs) before their burial. The Greek historian saw it as a guarantee of Egypt’s prosperity, since the fear of being deprived of the right to burial served as a moral imperative. This story of an Egyptian custom fascinated the early modern authors, from lawyers to novelists, who often retold it in their own manner. Their interpretations varied depending on the political context: from the traditional “lesson to sovereigns” to a reassessment of the role of the subject and the duties of the orator. This article traces several intellectual trajectories that show the use and misuse of this Egyptian custom from Montaigne to Bossuet and then to Rousseau—and finally its adaptation by Pushkin and Vyazemsky, who most likely became acquainted with it through the mediation of French literature. The article was written in the framework (and with the generous support) of the RANEPA (ШАГИ РАНХиГС) state assignment research program. KEYWORDS: 16th to 19th-Century European and Russian Literature, Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778), Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837), Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792—1878), Egyptian Сourt, Locus communis, Political Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, Pantheonization, History of Ideas.

On the origin of the name ‘quartz’

1942 ◽  
Vol 26 (176) ◽  
pp. 172-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Tomkeieff
Keyword(s):  
Crystalline Silica ◽  
Pliny The Elder ◽  
Concrete Form ◽  
Winter Snow ◽  
Diodorus Siculus

Quartz is the commonest of minerals and reference to any dictionary will show that it is crystalline silica, but how or when this substance acquired the name quartz seems to be a still unsolved mystery.Theophrastus, the pupil and successor of Aristotle, in his book on stones (19), mentions among other stones used for engraving seals, a stone called crystal This name, apparently, is derived from cold, and contract. It would seem from this that the ancient Greeks, as implied by Pliny, believed crystal (modern quartz) to be a variety of supercooled ice. In point of fact the formation of crystal in nature is explained by the earliest writers in a different way. Diodorus Siculus (circa 30 B.C.) suggests that crystal was formed from water hardened by heavenly fire, while Pliny the Elder (circa A.D. 60) says that crystal is ‘a substance which assumes a concrete form from excessive congelation’, and goes on to explain that crystal is only to be found ‘in places where the winter snow freezes with the greatest intensity’ (15, Book 37, 2, 9). Pliny's description of crystal, however, leaves no doubt that he applied this name to the crystalline variety of silica which is now called quartz.

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