Tragedy and Philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2009

Autores

Várzeas, Marta (Autor) FLUP

Livro

Título: Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch

Páginas: 333-340

ISBN: 978-989-8281-17-3

Editora: CECH - Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos

Classificação Científica

FOS: Humanidades > Outras humanidades

Outras Informações

DOI: 10.14195/978-989-8281-17-3_30

Abstract (EN): 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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Notas: Disponível em: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/32015