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  • The chreia or chria (Greek: χρεία) was, in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, both a genre of literature and one of the progymnasmata. A chreia was a...
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    Progymnasmata (Greek προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises"; Latin praeexercitamina) are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece...
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    unique to the fourth gospel Narrative parables Symbolic discourses Logia and Chreia Dialogues and Monologues Messianic Secret Overt messianism Sadducees, elders...
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    Diogenes survive, but there are some details of his life from anecdotes (chreia), especially from Diogenes Laërtius' book Lives and Opinions of Eminent...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Univ. Press. Kindstrand, Jan Frederik. 1986. "Diogenes Laertius and the Chreia Tradition." Elenchos 7:217–234. Long, Anthony A. 2006. "Diogenes Laertius...
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    Armenian translations from Greek. In 1986 she defended her PhD: "The Book of Chreia and its Sources." From November 2001 she is member of AIEA ("Association...
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    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...
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    and classical archeology. Her doctoral thesis on the concept of the Greek chreia and contributions to the history of its form was submitted to the University...
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    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...
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    as well. Scholars have labeled this method of narration an apophthegm, chreia or pronouncement story. All three synoptics have this occur after the healing...
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  • in order to illustrate Demonax's wit. Long lists of anecdotes (known as chreia), were often collected concerning philosophers, especially Cynic philosophers...
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    de Touahar–Bab Marzouka–Taza–Kasba Msoun–Guercif (with branch to Midelt)–Chreia–Taourirt–El Aioun–Naima–Oujda. Construction started simultaneously from...
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  • Hock, Ronald F. (2012). "Introduction". In Trigg, Joseph W. (ed.). The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Commentaries on Aphthonius's Progymnasmata. Writings...
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