- Ancient Philosophy, Early Christianity, Christian Philosophy, Christian Apologetics, Patristics, Classical philology, and 43 moreEarly Christianity, Late Antiquity, New Testament, Origen, Cicero, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Boethius, Classics and Theology, Religious Conversion, Classics, Classics, Greek and Latin Consolation, Justin Martyr, Cicero's philosophical works, Hagiography, Ancient Biography, Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Gregory of Nazianzus, Vulgate, Philosophy as a way of life, Martyrdom, Acta Martyrum, Early Christian Martyrs, Panegyric, Ancient Literary Criticism, Protreptic, Literary Genres, Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as Therapy, Philosophy As a Way of Life Pierre Hadot, Wisdom Literature, Aristotle's Protrepticus, Ancient Medicine, Greco-Roman Medicine, History of Medicine, Galen, Hipocratic and Galenic Medicine, The ‘new Galen’ (Peri alypias), Hippocratic Corpus, Hippocrates, Ancient Emotions, Ancient Psychology, and Polemics and Apologeticsedit
This article provides an analysis of Galen’s attitude towards philosophy and philosophers as manifested in two of his moral writings, namely, the letter- essay entitled Avoiding Distress (De indolentia) and the treatise on The Diagnosis... more
This article provides an analysis of Galen’s attitude towards philosophy and philosophers as manifested in two of his moral writings, namely, the letter- essay entitled Avoiding Distress (De indolentia) and the treatise on The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Affections and Errors Peculiar to Each Person’s Soul (De animi cuiuslibet affectuum et peccatorum dignotione et curatione). While Galen’s engagement with various philosophical schools of his time has been extensively explored in the literature of the past few decades, with an emphasis on his Platonic and Aristotelian affiliations, his critique of philosophy and philosophers has only occasionally been discussed. However, a closer look at the polemical intent of the works referred to above can help us not only to illuminate more fully their content and purposes but also to locate them more accurately within the cultural milieu in which they were written. Along with an attempt to understand the reasons underlying Galen’s criticism of philosophy and philosophers, and the sources of his critique, particular attention will be given to the self- image Galen projects in these two writings. As I intend to show, by critically reviewing some philosophical therapeutic techniques (mostly Stoic and Epicurean), Galen seeks not only to debunk the philosophers’ claim of being an authoritative voice in matters pertaining to practical ethics but also to cast himself in the role of a true moral adviser or physician of the soul, one that actually has expertise in treating moral distress, anguish or anxiety.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Classics, Greek Literature, Rhetoric, Psychotherapy and Counseling, and 15 moreStoicism, Galen, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Moral Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Psychology, Classical Greek Philosophy, Galenus, Ancient Greek Medicine, The ‘new Galen’ (Peri alypias), Hipocratic and Galenic Medicine, and Galen of Pergamon
Research Interests: Classics, Theology, Patristics, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, and 12 moreClassical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Origen, Patristic Exegesis, Patristic Studies, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Apologetics, Greek Patristics, Greek Patrology, Polemics and Apologetics, Origene, and St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Gregory Thaumaturgus has only occasionally been discussed in relation to early Christian apologetics. The paper provides a new step in this direction by exploring the points of contact between Gregory's Address to Origen and previous... more
Gregory Thaumaturgus has only occasionally been discussed in relation to early Christian apologetics. The paper provides a new step in this direction by exploring the points of contact between Gregory's Address to Origen and previous apologetic literature. As the analysis below will indicate, the Address shows parallels with several apologetic texts from the second and early third century, both in terms of content and style. By discussing the apologetic topics and strategies found in the Address, I will argue that Gregory intended to respond, at least indirectly, to some of the main charges raised against Christians by their pagan opponents. Such an approach not only sheds light on the content and purposes of the Address, but also illuminates the historical and literary background against which Gregory wrote his text.
Research Interests: Christianity, Classics, Theology, Patristics, History of Christianity, and 13 moreEarly Christianity, Late Antiquity, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Origen, Christian Apologetics, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Apologetics, Celsus, Christian Studies, Polemics and Apologetics, Apologetica, and St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Gregory Thaumaturgus’s Address to Origen has alternatively been read as a speech of thanksgiving (λόγος χαριστήριος), as a panegyric (πανηγυρικός), as a laudatory address (προσφωνητικός) or as a farewell speech (συντακτικός). The present... more
Gregory Thaumaturgus’s Address to Origen has alternatively been read as a
speech of thanksgiving (λόγος χαριστήριος), as a panegyric (πανηγυρικός), as a
laudatory address (προσφωνητικός) or as a farewell speech (συντακτικός). The
present paper offers a new approach to the genre of Gregory’s text by reading
it as a protreptic (λόγος προτρεπτικός) addressed to a pagan audience. Such an
approach sheds new light not only on the genre of the Address, but also on
its content, structure, and intended audience. It also allows us to readdress the
controversial issue of Gregory’s sparing use of specifically Christian terminology
in his speech. After a short overview of the solutions proposed by various
scholars to this question, I suggest that the avoidance of an explicit Christian
vocabulary can be reasonably explained by taking into account the protreptic
aim of this text.
speech of thanksgiving (λόγος χαριστήριος), as a panegyric (πανηγυρικός), as a
laudatory address (προσφωνητικός) or as a farewell speech (συντακτικός). The
present paper offers a new approach to the genre of Gregory’s text by reading
it as a protreptic (λόγος προτρεπτικός) addressed to a pagan audience. Such an
approach sheds new light not only on the genre of the Address, but also on
its content, structure, and intended audience. It also allows us to readdress the
controversial issue of Gregory’s sparing use of specifically Christian terminology
in his speech. After a short overview of the solutions proposed by various
scholars to this question, I suggest that the avoidance of an explicit Christian
vocabulary can be reasonably explained by taking into account the protreptic
aim of this text.
Research Interests: Christianity, History, Classics, Greek Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 15 moreTheology, Patristics, History of Christianity, Early Christianity, Religious Conversion, Late Antiquity, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Origen, Late Roman Empire, Conversion, Early Christian Literature, Greek Patristics, Gregory Thaumaturgus, and Protreptic
Research Interests: Philosophy, Classics, Greek Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, and 14 moreBiography, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Proclus, Ancient Philosophy, Neoplatonism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Biography, Philosophy as a way of life, Proclus & Neoplatonism & Greek Philosophy, Protreptic, Vita Procli, Proclo, and Marinus of Neapolis
Aristotle's Protrepticus shows traces of a long-standing dispute concerning the hierarchy of different technai. In this paper I argue that the Protrepticus stages an agon between philosophy and medicine, both of which strove for the... more
Aristotle's Protrepticus shows traces of a long-standing dispute concerning the hierarchy of different technai. In this paper I argue that the Protrepticus stages an agon between philosophy and medicine, both of which strove for the status of a techne of cognitive and intellectual authority. By making reference to several medical methods and concepts, Aristotle tried to reveal the preeminence of philosophy in the knowledge of human nature and, thereby, debunked the claims of medicine for a rightful and unerring arbiter of the best way of life. Through my analysis I try to illustrate that a large part of Aristotle's polemic with medicine was directed against several statements made in Hippocratic literature. Finally, I suggest that in his polemic against medicine Aristotle envisaged a particular type of opponent which is to be identified with the rigoristic medical practitioners and writers whose methods of inquiry and viewpoints were exposed by the Hippocratic author of Ancient Medicine.
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Classics, Greek Literature, Rhetoric, History of Ideas, and 42 moreAristotle, History of Medicine, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Hippocratic Corpus, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Aristotelianism, Classical Reception Studies, Social History of Medicine, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Sophists, Aristotle's Ethics, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, Hippocrates, Discipleship, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Classical Greek Philosophy, Medicina, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Aristóteles, Ancient Greek Literature, Spiritual Formation and Discipleship, Aristoteles, GREEK PHILOSOPHY, Ancient Greek Medicine, History of Ancient Medicine and Philosophy; Transmission routes of the Hippocratic Corpus to Medieval Europe., Ancient Greek Literature, Classical Philology, Sofística, Hipócrates, History of Ancient Medicine, Ancient Greek Science and Philosophy, Protreptic Discourse, Protreptic, Sophistique, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Pseudo Hippocrates, Hippocrates and Hippocratism, Aristotle's Protrepticus, Greek Medical Thought, Hippocratic medicine and philosophy, and Hippocratic-Galenic medicine
Abstract: Cicero’s Hortensius, undoubtedly the most famous exhortation to philosophy from the whole of Latin literature, has survived only in fragmentary form, as quotations or paraphrases in the works of different writers of Antiquity,... more
Abstract: Cicero’s Hortensius, undoubtedly the most famous exhortation to philosophy from the whole of Latin literature, has survived only in fragmentary form, as quotations or paraphrases in the works of different writers of Antiquity, including Seneca, Tacitus, Nonius Marcellus, Lactantius and Augustine. Despite the cautious attempts of different scholars to reconstruct this dialogue, we still do not have a definitive edition of it. Since only a small number of the known fragments can be certainly assigned to one particular place, the attempts to re-establish the plan of the dialogue and the proper order in which the fragments should be arranged still remain a source of quarrel between scholars. In this paper I propose a new arrangement of the frag. 43 from Grilli’s edition of the Hortensius, in an attempt to establish more adequately its place and meaning in the structure of the dialogue.
Research Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Aristotle, History and Classical tradition studies, Cicero, and 29 moreClassical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotelianism, Classical Reception Studies, Textual Criticism and Editing, Liberal arts, Roman Philosophy, Aristóteles, Letteratura Latina, Filologia Classica, Letteratura Greca E Latina, Aristoteles, Otium, Cicero's philosophical works, Filologia Clasica, Ciceronian Philosophy and the Late Roman Republic, Cicerone, Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron, Ancient Literature, Literatura Latina, Classical Philology, Cicerón, Protreptic, Hortensius, Aristotle's Protrepticus, Cícero, Classical Studies, Nonius Marcellus, and Cicero's Hortensius
Research Interests: Philosophy, Classics, Medieval Philosophy, Latin Literature, Medieval Literature, and 24 moreMedieval History, Literature, Medieval Studies, Poetry, Medieval Latin Literature, Late Antiquity, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Literature and Philosophy, Classical Reception Studies, Roman Elegy, Boethius, Elegy, Literatura, Philosophie, Latin Elegiac Poetry, Classics, Greek and Latin Consolation, Muses, Consolation, Boethius (ca. 480 - ca. 524), Boezio, Cicerone, Agostino, History of Philosophy, Medieval Exile and Banishment, and The language of consolation
Research Interests: Christianity, Classics, Greek Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Theology, and 30 moreChristian Education, Patristics, New Testament, History of Christianity, Early Christianity, Orthodox Theology, Religious Conversion, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Ancient Philosophy, New Testament and Christian Origins, Christian Philosophy, Origen, Christian Apologetics, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Classical Reception Studies, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Biography, Origen of Alexandria, Patristic Exegesis, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Teologia, Paganism and Christianism, Origenes, Greek Patristics, Gregory Thaumaturgus, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Protreptic Discourse, Protreptic, and Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Research Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Late Antiquity, Cicero, Classical philology, and 12 moreAncient Philosophy, Classical Reception Studies, Texts and transmission, Ammianus Marcellinus, Cicero's philosophical works, Cichlidae, Ciceronian Philosophy and the Late Roman Republic, Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron, Ciceronianism, Protreptic, Cícero, and Cicero's Hortensius
Research Interests: Latin Literature, Rhetoric, Theology, Patristics, Early Christianity, and 23 moreClassical rhetoric, Autobiography, Religious Conversion, Late Antiquity, Christian Apologetics, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Teologie, Patristic Studies, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Teologia, Ancient Rhetoric, Conversion, Apologetics, Ancient Roman Rhetoric, Cyprian of Carthago, Latin Patristics, Cyprian of Carthage, Protreptic Discourse, Protreptic, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Greek and Latin Patristics, Conversion In Antiquity, and Cipriano De Cartago
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This article explores Plato‘s relation to medicine as documented in his early dialogues by taking into account the historical and cultural context of the fourth century BC. In Plato‘s time, medicine and philosophy often interfered and... more
This article explores Plato‘s relation to medicine as documented in his early dialogues by taking into account the historical and cultural context of the fourth century BC. In Plato‘s time, medicine and philosophy often interfered and competed with each other for cognitive and moral authority in matters concerning human nature, health, and happiness. To increase philosophy‘s public recognition, Plato challenged medicine‘s claims of being the rightful arbiter of the best modus vivendi and argued for philosophy‘s moral and intellectual preeminence over all other technai. As I intend to show, Plato‘s rivalry with medicine is often supported by a protreptic rhetoric, which aims both to highlight medicine‘s limits and to illustrate philosophy‘s primacy in defining the conditions for a temperate, ordered, and happy life. Along with a critique of different approaches to bodily health and happiness taken by Hippocratic writers, Plato emphasizes the soul‘s invaluable superiority over the body and describes philosophy as a genuine medicine of the soul. The explicit references to therapeutic techniques and vocabulary also function as rhetorical devices to demonstrate the useful and necessary character of philosophy.
Research Interests: Classics, Plato, History of Medicine, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, and 13 moreHippocratic Corpus, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Medicine, Platonism, Filologia Classica, Platone, Ancient Literature, Classical Philology, Storia della filosofia antica, Filosofia Antica, Protreptic Discourse, Protreptic, and Aristotle's Protrepticus
Research Interests: Classics, Latin Literature, Classical rhetoric, Cicero, Classical philology, and 13 moreAncient Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Roman Philosophy, Filologia Classica, Cicero's philosophical works, Ciceronian Philosophy and the Late Roman Republic, Cicerone, Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron, Literatura Latina, Istorie, Filologie clasică, Istorie Romana, Filologie Clasica, Epigrafie, Filologie Clasică, and Cícero
Research Interests: Theology, Early Christianity, Classical rhetoric, Late Antiquity, Origen, and 14 moreChristian Apologetics, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Origen of Alexandria, Patristic Studies, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ancient Rhetoric, Letteratura cristiana antica; Letteratura latina tardoantica, Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Paganism and Christianism, Synkrisis, Origenes, Greek Patristics, Gregory Thaumaturgus, and Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Research Interests: Classics, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, and 21 moreAncient Philosophy, Didactic Literature, Ancient Medicine, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Conversion, Philosophy as a way of life, Greco-Roman World, Classics, Greek and Latin Consolation, GREEK PHILOSOPHY, Roman Literature, Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Roman Rhetoric, Consolation, Consolatio Philosophae, Philosophy As a Way of Life (Hadot), The language of consolation, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, De consolatione Philosophiae, Consolatio ad Marciam, and ancient therapy
Research Interests: Classics, Theology, Patristics, History of Christianity, Early Christianity, and 13 moreEmperor Julian, Late Antiquity, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Patristic Exegesis, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ecclesiastical History, Cyril of Alexandria, Filologia Classica, Cristianismo, Filologia Clasica, Greek Patristics, and Polemics and Apologetics
Research Interests: Christianity, Theology, Patristics, New Testament, History of Christianity, and 13 moreEarly Christianity, Orthodox Theology, Christian Ethics, Church History, Christian Apologetics, Clement of Alexandria, Early Christian Literature, Alexandria, Classics and Theology, Greek Patristics, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, and Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions
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Research Interests: Classics, Theology, Patristics, Early Christianity, Byzantine Studies, and 15 moreLate Antiquity, Origen, Christian Apologetics, Teologie, Patristic Studies, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Filologia Classica, Ancient Greek Literature, Apologetics, Origenism, Greek Patristics, Patrística, Classical Philology, Filologie Clasică, and St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
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This article explores some aspects of Clement of Alexandria's use of moral exhortation (or protreptic), a genre widely practiced both by Greek philosophers and early Christian writers. While modern scholars have commonly limited the... more
This article explores some aspects of Clement of Alexandria's use of moral exhortation (or protreptic), a genre widely practiced both by Greek philosophers and early Christian writers. While modern scholars have commonly limited the analysis of Clement's use of this genre to his Protrepticus to the Greeks, I will try to take a step further by pointing to some protreptic elements found in the first book of the Paedagogus. Along with discussing some biblical and philosophical topoi, I will focus my analysis on the medical language and imagery found in that book. As I intend to show, the use of medical imagery was a rhetorical device Clement made use of to reinforce his protreptic appeal to the Greeks to convert to Christianity. Reading Clement's Paedagogus in light of the categories of the protreptic genre is important as it allows us to readdress not only the question of its purpose, but also that of its sources and intended readership. Against the communis opinio that the addressees of this book were only the already-converted Christians, I will try to argue that Clement's intended audience also encompassed the Alexandrian pagan intellectuals of his day.
Research Interests: Classics, Patristics, Early Christianity, Religious Conversion, Late Antiquity, and 10 moreAncient Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Clement of Alexandria, Ancient Greek Literature, Early Christian Literature, Paganism and Christianism, Greek Patristics, Protreptic, and Filologie Clasică
Vă invităm să participați la cea de-a XVII-a ediţie a Simpozionului național "Antichitatea şi moştenirea ei spirituală", care se va desfășura în perioada 12-13 noiembrie 2021, la Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași, prin... more
Vă invităm să participați la cea de-a XVII-a ediţie a Simpozionului național "Antichitatea şi moştenirea ei spirituală", care se va desfășura în perioada 12-13 noiembrie 2021, la Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași, prin intermediul platformei digitale ZOOM. Tematica propusă spre dezbatere priveşte Antichitatea greco-romană şi iudeo-creștină, ereditatea, transmiterea şi receptarea acesteia de-a lungul timpului, în diferite contexte istorice, geografice sau lingvistice. Domeniile de interes sunt: limbă, literatură, istorie, filosofie, teologie, drept, arte plastice, numismatică, psihologie şi pedagogie. Detalii despre edițiile anterioare ale simpozionului pot fi consultate accesând pagina simpozionului (http://media.lit.uaic.ro/?page_id=7410). Propunerile de comunicări (titlul și un scurt rezumat) pot fi trimise până la data de 1 noiembrie 2021, la adresa: simpozion.antichitatea@gmail.com. Durata unei comunicări va fi de 20 de minute, dintre care 5 minute vor fi rezervate discuţiilor. Lucrările simpozionului vor fi editate de organizatori într un volum publicat la Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi. Normele redacţionale vor fi comunicate participanţilor ale căror contribuţii vor fi reţinute pentru publicare.