Tragedy and Philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Várzeas, Marta (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch

Pages: 333-340

ISBN: 978-989-8281-17-3

Publisher: CECH - Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Other humanities

Other information

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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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