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- The chreia or chria (Gr****: χρεία) was, in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, both a genre of literature and one of the progymnasmata. A chreia was a...
- Progymnasmata (Gr**** προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises"; Latin praeexercitamina) are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece...
- Diogenes survive, but there are some details of his life from anecdotes (chreia), especially from Diogenes Laërtius' book Lives and Opinions of Eminent...
- unique to the fourth gospel Narrative parables Symbolic discourses Logia and Chreia Dialogues and monologues Messianic Secret Overt messianism Sadducees, elders...
- Q+/Papias hypothesis A chreia was a brief, useful ("χρεία" means useful) anecdote about a particular character. That is, a chreia was shorter than a narration—often...
- Univ. Press. Kindstrand, Jan Frederik. 1986. "Diogenes Laertius and the Chreia Tradition." Elenchos 7:217–234. Long, Anthony A. 2006. "Diogenes Laertius...
- and classical archeology. Her doctoral thesis on the concept of the Gr**** chreia and contributions to the history of its form was submitted to the University...
- Boutsaras (13th century) Ronald F. Hock and Edward N. O'Neil (eds.), The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: classroom Exercises (Brill, 2002), p. 74. J. Morton...
- says that the key to determining this quantitative measure of value is chreia. This has often been translated as "demand" by translators eager to suggest...
- i.e., in such a way that the second is in reverse order from the first. Chreia – an anecdote (a deed, a saying, a situation) involving a well-known figure...