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Péter Kovács - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Deities in Trajan’s and Marcus Aurelius’ Column
    Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2017
    Co-Authors: Péter Kovács
    Abstract:

    In his paper the author deals with the deities depicted on Trajan’s and Marcus Aurelius’ Column with a special regard to the cult of Danuvius/Danube and the winged and bearded god of the rain miracle. The cult of Danuvius is rarely attested epigraphically (and not before the 2nd century AD) and it must be connected to Trajan’s campaign against the Dacians. The rain god is iconographically unique but a figure of a river god among the Dionysiac relief panels of the theatre in Perge dated to Marcus Aurelius’ reign can be its first parallel.

  • Das Regenwunder Marc Aurels
    Acta Antiqua, 2009
    Co-Authors: Péter Kovács
    Abstract:

    Marcus Aurelius saved the Roman army in the Barbaricum in the war against the Germans (during the Marcomannic wars) around 172 AD. He followed the various pagan and Christian versions of the lightning and rain miracles. During his work he collected the antique and medieval sources concerning the miracles from the beginning of the 3rd century (Tertullian) to the 14th century. The author examined the possible (and heavily disputed) date of the events and their representations in the Column of Marcus Aurelius.

  • Chapter Ten. The Scenes On The Column Of Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius’ Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars, 2009
    Co-Authors: Péter Kovács
    Abstract:

    This chapter presents text on CXVI scenes that are present on the column of Marcus Aurelius. Some of these include the ripa Pannonica in Brigetio, the assault on the Barbarians, the capture of their leaders, the appearance of Roman cavalry with the same purpose, the resettlement of barbarians and the garrison of the besieged Roman fort. The chapter also provides a few snapshots, including those of the the lightning miracle, rain miracle and rain god.Keywords: lightning miracle; Marcus Aurelius; rain god; rain miracle

  • Chapter Nine. The Column Of Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius’ Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars, 2009
    Co-Authors: Péter Kovács
    Abstract:

    One of the most important sources for interpreting the northern wars of Marcus Aurelius is the triumphal column standing in Rome on the Campus Martius near the via Lata, erected in remembrance of the wars and the ruler. Wegner observed that different masters worked on the four different sides of the column and they started to carve the individual scenes from the bottom to the top (e.g., the windows disturbed the scenes on the lower sections much more than further up). Frontality was much more in the foreground than on Trajan's column. Marcus' column does indeed imitate Trajan's Column in size, exterior, and function. In spite of these similarities Marcus' Column differs from Trajan's not only in style, but in its message. On Marcus' Column the main emphasis is on the destruction of the enemy. Dacians appear as equal opponents on many points of Trajan's Column.Keywords: frontality; Marcus Aurelius; Marcus' column; Trajan's Column; Wegner

  • Marcus Aurelius rain miracle and the marcomannic wars
    2009
    Co-Authors: Péter Kovács
    Abstract:

    The longest war of the Roman imperial period is the war Marcus Aurelius waged with the northern German and Sarmatian tribes. The best-known events of these wars were the lightning and rain miracles. Divine intervention saved the Roman troops who were surrounded by the Germans and suffering from a water shortage, by means of a lightning and rain miracle. Thunderbolts struck the enemy while the rain soothed the Romans' suffering. Several pagan and Christian versions of the miracle existed already in Antiquity. Peter Kovacs examines these events and their sources in detail. The most important source is the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The scenes of the column depict the miracles as well and therefore it was studied separately. The author also sketches the history of the Marcomannic wars. He publishes all the sources of the miracles and examines the development of the legend from Antiquity to the 14th century.

Nuray Gökalp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of ÎœÎ®Ï„Î·Ï Î˜Îµá¿¶Î½ Ουεγεινος at Zindan Mağarası I
    2020
    Co-Authors: Burak Takmer, Nuray Gökalp
    Abstract:

    The three inscriptions presented here were found during the excavation of the sanctuary at Zindan Magarasi (Zindan cave). The first inscription shows that the sanctuary was dedicated to Meter TheA´n Veginos and the second inscription indicates that the sanctuary was constructed during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. The authors suggest that the chief city of this rural sanctuary must have been Timbriada which can be located at the ruins in Asartepe in the vicinity of the modern county of Aksu in the Province of Isparta. From the last inscription we learn for the first time that the ancient city of Timbriada was a member of the Panhellenion created by the Emperor Hadrian in 131/2 A.D. The city was represented at the assembly of the Panhellenion through its citizens Samos and Abas, most probably during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

  • Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Μήτηρ Θεῶν Ουεγεινος at Zindan Mağarası I
    2011
    Co-Authors: Burak Takmer, Nuray Gökalp
    Abstract:

    The three inscriptions presented here were found during the excavation of the sanctuary at Zindan Magarasi (Zindan cave). The first inscription shows that the sanctuary was dedicated to Meter Theon Veginos and the second inscription indicates that the sanctuary was constructed during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. The authors suggest that the chief city of this rural sanctuary must have been Timbriada which can be located at the ruins in Asartepe in the vicinity of the modern county of Aksu in the Province of Isparta. From the last inscription we learn for the first time that the ancient city of Timbriada was a member of the Panhellenion created by the Emperor Hadrian in 131/2 A.D. The city was represented at the assembly of the Panhellenion through its citizens Samos and Abas, most probably during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Ma Yu-hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Millennial Spiritual Tie——Ethical Relationship between Liang Shiqiu and Marcus Aurelius
    Journal of Northwest Minorities University, 2020
    Co-Authors: Ma Yu-hong
    Abstract:

    As a neo-humanist, Liang Shiqiu did not receive direct influence of Marcus Aurelius; however, from ethical angel, he did have spiritual tie with Aurelius surpassing the time and special limits. Liang was deeply obsessed by Aurelius's (as a disciplinant philosopher) perfect ethical ideas, and the ideal form of such ethic is rationality---virtues. Both of them are the practitioner of their ethic, and their spiritual tie surpassed the limits of a millennium and was a bond in depth.

M A Yuhong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • millennial spiritual tie ethical relationship between liang shiqiu and Marcus Aurelius
    Journal of Northwest Minorities University, 2005
    Co-Authors: M A Yuhong
    Abstract:

    As a neo-humanist, Liang Shiqiu did not receive direct influence of Marcus Aurelius; however, from ethical angel, he did have spiritual tie with Aurelius surpassing the time and special limits. Liang was deeply obsessed by Aurelius's (as a disciplinant philosopher) perfect ethical ideas, and the ideal form of such ethic is rationality---virtues. Both of them are the practitioner of their ethic, and their spiritual tie surpassed the limits of a millennium and was a bond in depth.

Joanna Diane Caytas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • parallels in search of an intersection the manifold Marcus Aurelius resonances in walt whitman s song of myself
    English Language and Literature Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Joanna Diane Caytas
    Abstract:

    While Whitman’s knowledge of and affinity to Epictetus are well-known, the profound roots of Song of Myself in Marcus Aurelius’ To Myself (better known as Meditations) were not researched to date even though it is known that Stoicism was a powerful influence upon the autodidact poet. Through classical hermeneutical methodology, this paper shows how stoic practice and training in daily reflection, cosmopolitanism, pantheism, religious skepticism, public service, but most importantly its Platonic legacy of “doing one’s own thing” through fluxes and flows reach far beyond coincidences in Whitman’s work and may be traced through scores of sometimes verbatim parallels in Whitman’s magnum opus. Even if one leaves use of paradigms, vignettes, examples and transcendentalism aside, the study still shows that these parallels extend to a shared platform of individualism and higher-level virtue that cannot be reduced to the poet’s early love of classical motives and Greek culture. Epicurean materialistic atomism and its doctrine of interchangeability of all matter in metamorphosis came to him through the influence of German chemist Justus von Liebig in the perception of Fanny Wright’s novel Ten Days in Athens. This research traces Whitman’s stance opposed to slavery directly to Seneca and points out multiple parallels between the reflections of Marcus Aurelius on Rome and the words Whitman found for New York—each the metropolis of its day, slightly past its apex of historical power, yet peerlessly vibrant as a melting pot, engaged in cultural wars on multiple levels with forces labeled “barbaric.”

  • Parallels in Search of an Intersection: The Manifold Marcus Aurelius Resonances in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
    English Language and Literature Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Joanna Diane Caytas
    Abstract:

    <p>While Whitman’s knowledge of and affinity to Epictetus are well-known, the profound roots of <em>Song of Myself</em> in Marcus Aurelius’ <em>To Myself</em> (better known as <em>Meditations</em>) were not researched to date even though it is known that Stoicism was a powerful influence upon the autodidact poet. Through classical hermeneutical methodology, this paper shows how stoic practice and training in daily reflection, cosmopolitanism, pantheism, religious skepticism, public service, but most importantly its Platonic legacy of “doing one’s own thing” through fluxes and flows reach far beyond coincidences in Whitman’s work and may be traced through scores of sometimes verbatim parallels in Whitman’s <em>magnum opus</em>. Even if one leaves use of paradigms, vignettes, examples and transcendentalism aside, the study still shows that these parallels extend to a shared platform of individualism and higher-level virtue that cannot be reduced to the poet’s early love of classical motives and Greek culture. Epicurean materialistic atomism and its doctrine of interchangeability of all matter in metamorphosis came to him through the influence of German chemist Justus von Liebig in the perception of Fanny Wright’s novel <em>Ten Days in Athens</em>. This research traces Whitman’s stance opposed to slavery directly to Seneca and points out multiple parallels between the reflections of Marcus Aurelius on Rome and the words Whitman found for New York—each the metropolis of its day, slightly past its apex of historical power, yet peerlessly vibrant as a melting pot, engaged in cultural wars on multiple levels with forces labeled “barbaric.”</p>