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Title: | Tragedy and philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero | Authors: | Várzeas, Marta | Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos |
Journal: | http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/2353 | Abstract: | The concept of philanthropia is often associated with that of compassion and characterizes, ideally, the relations between the powerful and those who are found to be in a situation of fragility and impotence. The intention of this study is to show how, in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero, this notion of philanthropia takes on a tragic tone, one which is reinforced by the allusions to Sophocles’s Antigone, a play which seems to serve as an ethical frame of reference for the evaluation of the protagonists’ ethos in crucial moments of their lives. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/32015 | ISBN: | 978-989-26-0908-9 (PDF) | DOI: | 10.14195/978-989-8281-17-3_30 | Rights: | open access |
Appears in Collections: | Symposion and philanthropia in Plutarch |
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