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Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire. Jażdżewska, Katarzyna & Doroszewski, filip (eds.). brill, leiden-boston, 2024, 491 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-68729-5
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Dionysus in the mirror of Late Antiquity : religion, philosophy and politics
No full textDepto. de Filología ClásicaFac. de FilologíaTRUEpu
Speaking to the people in theory and action : Plutarch’s political precepts and Dio of Prusa’s assembly speeches
No full textThis chapter explores the overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and Dio of Prusa with regard to Roman-era assembly politics. More precisely, it compares Plutarch’s advice on demegoric rhetoric, articulated in the Political precepts (§5-9), to the rhetorical strategies employed by Dio of Prusa in the speeches addressed to the assembly of his native city (Orr. 40, 43-48, 51). While the Political precepts contains the advice of one elite politician to the other, Dio’s orations were designed to persuade the city’s dēmos gathered in the assembly. These works thus provide us with two radically different perspectives on the phenomenon of popular politics, which, as recent studies have shown, still constituted a vital aspect of civic life in the imperial period. A comparison between the Political precepts and Dio’s assembly speeches can be mutually illuminating: while Plutarch’s advice helps us better understand the strategies behind Dio’s rhetoric, the assembly speeches show how Plutarch’s rhetorical precepts could be put into practice. This comparison, moreover, supports Plutarch’s claims about the practical orientation and usefulness of his advice, which have been called into question by scholarship. The conclusions of this paper thus give further reason to consider Plutarch not only as a philosopher or moralist but also as someone whose works actively shaped the political life of his time
Plutarch in the middle of a conflict between Epictetus and Favorinus
No full textAccording to a reference by Galen in his work On the Best Method of Teaching we can infer that at some point in the course of the second century AD, the name of Plutarch became entangled in a polemic, pitting the philosopher Favorinus of Arles against the Stoic teacher Epictetus. According to Galen, Favorinus defended the Academic practice of exchanging arguments over an issue from two opposing sides as the best teaching method in three different texts he wrote: a treatise On the Academic Disposition, also called Plutarch, a dialogue entitled Against Epictetus, in which a certain Onesimus, a slave of Plutarch, was supposed to exchange arguments with the Stoic philosopher, and a further book bearing the title Alcibiades. It comes as a surprise that Favorinus is said to have referred both to Plutarch and Epictetus within this context, since Plutarch never mentions Epictetus in his writings. Nevertheless, research in Arrian’s Discourses of Epictetus has already indicated passages which make it quite plausible that Plutarch possibly stood behind the method that Favorinus defends. What is still lacking is more stable evidence from Plutarch’s own texts. My aim in this paper is to fill in this gap by drawing attention to a further text written by Plutarch, the dialogue On the Cleverness of Animals, which might deepen our understanding of this matter
The Awakening of Ariadne in Nonnus : A Deliberate Metaphor
No full textDepto. de Filología ClásicaFac. de FilologíaInstituto Universitario de Ciencias de las ReligionesTRUEpu
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Z mroku do światła. Jezus, Nikodem i Helios w Parafrazie Ewangelii św. Jana Nonnosa z Panopolis
No full textFrom Darkness into Light: Jesus, Nicodemus and Helios in Nonnus' Paraphrasis of the Gospel of Joh
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