Dwumfuor Enterprise

14/07/2016

The concept of ‘literature’ in Classics, which is employed in this book, is much wider than is entertained in other studies. It refers to the literary study of the linguistic works of art that constitute the basic subject-texts. These include mythology, drama, various purely poetic genres (e.g., epic, lyric, elegiac, iambic, epigram, pastoral, mime), and prosaic genres (e.g., science, philosophy, geography, mathematics, historiography, fables, novels, (auto)biography, character-sketches, rhetoric, epistolography). By including sample texts on most of these genres, this survey of the ancient Greek literary heritage provides historical meaning to most literary genres, a broad acquaintance with various subject-texts, and a guide for developing literary competence.

14/07/2016

The orientation of his book complements an earlier volume on Greece—both intended as a response to the mistaken belief, especially widespread among our African students, that Graeco-Roman antiquity is irrelevant to the concerns of a developing society like Ghana. Indeed the Graeco-Roman experience is an essential element in the trajectory of humanity’s historic development: it is part of the common heritage of humanity’s historic responses to the basic, universal challenge to secure its survival and advance its well-being—responses packaged in some contemporary developing societies under the rubric ‘the national development agenda’. Thus the Graeco-Roman experience necessarily sheds some historical light on the African experience and on some implications of current approaches to human or national development.

This book divides into four parts and eighteen chapters. Part One deals with the ‘external factors’ that contributed to the evolution and maintenance of the Roman Empire. These factors are the geographical background (chapter 1), the birth of Rome (chapter 2) and the constitutional, political, and governmental structures in the Republican and Imperial eras (chapters 3 and 4). ‘External factors’ is intended as a contrast to the ‘internal factors’, namely, the sociopsychological bases of the Empire, which form the content of Part Two (chapters 5 and 6). Part Three (chapters 7 to 16) deals with sociocultural institutional changes as a consequence of the Empire; these have illuminative import for the institutional changes in Africa that occurred as a result of the colonial experience. Part Four (chapter 17) is a case study that briefly accounts for the legacies and relevance of the Graeco-Roman civilisation.

A chapter by chapter table of sources has been placed near the end of the book as a token acknowledgment and appreciation of the authors whose works have been relied on throughout this book.

Many thanks to Mr. Peter Kojo Tsiwa Grant, University of Cape Coast, for reading through the entire manuscript and drawing my attention to certain mistakes. I am, however, entirely responsible for any mistakes this book still contains.

14/07/2016

Rome's growth into the capital of a world empire and the corresponding growth of its social and political institutions correlate to its evolution in thought, language, art, and letters. Many literary circles in Rome from the 1st century BC attest to an evolved intellectual culture, pioneered by the educated elite and patronised by the nobility or imperial largesse. In a remarkable interface between literature and society, we see signs of limitless human potential for creativity and technical sophistication, with some writers assuming the role of a social critic. But we also see vintage sycophancy, opportunism, or cringing cowardice before imperial authority; and we see moral decadence, reinforced by risqué and lurid literature served to the public with reckless abandon. By and large we see humanity increasingly developing through literary enterprise and experiment, though dogged—especially in the Imperial Era—by unsure steps because attracting imperial attention can be providential or fatalistic.

14/07/2016

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
— Psalm 7:9 (KJV)

Thoughts on Today's Verse...
In a world of organized crime, gangs, and predators, we have some real work cut out for us if we are going to influence the violent part of contemporary culture to change its ways. Maybe the place to start is down on our knees before the Father, asking him to use us to make a difference in our violent world!

My Prayer...

Loving Lord and Father of all peoples, please forgive us for anything we have done to condone or accept the violence that is entrenched in many parts of our world today. Please bring the evil and hostile trend towards violence to an end. Frustrate and defeat those who use violence. May your people be an example of productive, compassionate, and non-violent living. Please give strength and protection to all who face the threat of violence because of their faith. In Jesus' name. Amen.

06/06/2016

For centuries, Aristotle dominated European thinking in science and philosophy. He was revered and nicknamed “First Teacher” by Muslim scholars and “The Philosopher” by Scholastic thinkers. His metaphysics significantly contributed to the development of Islamic and Christian theology, especially in the Medieval Period. This book succinctly draws together the key elements of Aristotle’s metaphysics—the concept of theology, the nature of physical reality, human essence—indicating their organic role in a complex set of arguments to the existence of a first cause or principle. The functional relationships between the first cause and this universe account for the various characterisations of the former as the Unmoved Mover, Reason or Mind, God, and a Thinking of Thinking. The concluding chapter critically evaluates both the causality and content of Aristotle’s God and the implications of God-human relationship and of divine providence in Aristotle’s conception of God. This book is suitable for students and researchers in religion and philosophy of religion, religious practitioners, and those with general interest in the history of ideas.

26/05/2016

22/06/2014

One of the greatest achievements in human life is for one to be at peace with nature

11/06/2014

This book discusses literature and different traditions/culture behavioural attitudes and how the Akans live

26/02/2014

God Bless U

25/01/2014

Amen