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Dire addio alla verità? Il ruolo dell'eikos nella polemica antisofistica.
2012
This paper deals with the concept of eikos, traditionally translated as “probability” or “likelihood". The aim is to show the complexity and the theoretical worth of this notion and, more specifically, the crucial role it plays in the Platonic attack against Sophists. The starting point is a famous passage of Phaedrus (272d-273a) where Socrates says that the speaker who follows eikos must "say goodbye to the truth”. However, this negative attitude towards eikos is not the only one possible. Indeed, in previous literature, and especially in historiography and rhetoric, eikos does not oppose itself to truth. Instead, despite its fallibility, it is a heuristic device that is extremely useful i…
L'Elogio di Roma di Elio Aristide (or. XXVI K) - Storia della tradizione ed edizione critica
The purpose of the present thesis is to perform a research on the textual tradition and the critical edition of Aelius Aristides’ speech Εἰς Ῥώμην (To Rome) (2nd century CE). Delivered in Rome in 144 CE, this speech is a praise of the Roman Empire. The first critical edition of the speech was published by B. Keil in 1898; in the 20th century, two philologists prepared editions with critical text, based on the apparatus of Keil. The thesis consists of a general introduction and two parts, followed by the bibliography, and four appendices. The first part explains the research on the textual tradition of the speech, and is structured in six chapters. The second part consists of the critical ed…
La sophrosyne dei Greci. Due saggi di L. Gernet a confronto : « La préhistoire d’une vertu morale : la “tempérance” chez les Grecs » (in Les Grecs sa…
2021
Il contributo propone la rilettura dei seguenti due saggi dello studioso francese Louis Gernet sul tema della sophrosyne: « La préhistoire d’une vertu morale : la “tempérance” chez les Grecs » (in Les Grecs sans miracle, a cura di R. Di Donato, Parigi, 1983, 48-57) e « Thucydide et l’histoire » (in Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 20/3 [1965], 570-575. The paper proposes a re-reading of the following two essays by the French scholar Louis Gernet on the theme of sophrosyne: "La préhistoire d'une vertu morale : la "tempérance" chez les Grecs" (in Les Grecs sans miracle, edited by R. Di Donato, Paris, 1983, 48-57) and "Thucydides et l'histoire" (Annales et l'histoire) and "Thucydides et l…