When wisdom calls : philosophical protreptic in Antiquity / edited by Olga Alieva, Annemaré Kotzé, Sophie Van der Meeren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alieva, Olga (Philologist), editor.

Kotzé, Annemaré, editor.

Meeren, Sophie van der, editor.

Series:

Monothéismes et philosophie

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Moral exhortation--History--To 1500.

Moral exhortation.

History.

Physical Description:

517 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Language Note:

Contributions in English and French.

Summary:

The ancients never confined their philosophy to the systematic exposition of doctrine. Orations, treatises, dialogues and letters aimed at persuading people to become lovers of wisdom. Rhetorical feats, logical intricacies, or mystical experience served to recruit adherents, to promote and defend philosophy and to support adherents. Protreptic was the literary form that served all these functions. This volume seeks to illuminate both the diversity and the continuity of protreptic in the work of a wide range of authors, from Parmenides to Augustine.

Contents:

Protreptic : a protean genre / Olga Alieva

Protreptic and poetry : Hesiod, Parmenides, Empedocles / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

Protreptic and Pythagorean sayings : Iamblichus's Protrepticus / Johan C. Thom

Protreptic and epideixis : Corpus Platonicum / Yuri Shichalin, Olga Alieva

Protreptic and apotreptic : Aristotle's dialogue Protrepticus / D.S. Hutchinson, Monte Ransome Johnson

Protreptic and epistolography : Epicurus / Jan Erik Heßler

Protreptique et exégèse : l'exhortation chez Philon d'Alexandrie / Géraldine Hertz

Protreptic and philosophical dialogue : Cicero / Georgia Tsouni

Protreptique et auto-exhortation : les Lettres à Lucilius de Sénèque / Jordi Pia- Comella

Protreptic and paraenesis : The Second Epistle of Clement / James Starr

Protreptique et apologétique : Justin Martyr / Sophie Van der Meeren

Protreptic and medicine : Galen / Vincenzo Damiani

Protreptic and satire : Lucian / Markus Hafner

Protreptic and rhetoric : Clement of Alexandria / Marco Rizzi

Protreptic and mystagogy : Augustine's early works / Paul van Geest

Protreptic and autobiography : Dio's Thirteenth Oration, Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho and Cyprian's To Donatus / Annemaré Kotzé

Protreptic and biography : the case of Marinus's Vita Procli / Constantin Ionuţ Mihai

Protreptique et isagogique : les vestibules de la philosophie / Sophie Van der Meeren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-497) and index.

ISBN:

2503568556

9782503568553

OCLC:

993756020