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    • Article  Open Access

      Orator-politician vs. philosopher: Plutarch’s Demosthenes 1–3 and Plato’s Theaetetus 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
      The present article argues for both a lexical and a larger conceptual connection between the prologue to Plutarch's Demosthenes–Cicero book (Dem. 1–3) and the so-called digression on the lives of the orator-politicians and ...
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      P. Oxy. LXXI 4808: bios, character, and literary criticism 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Rudolf Habelt Verlag GMBH, 2015)
      This paper discusses the literary genre of the unknown prose text published in volume LXXI of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri by A. G. Beresford, P. J. Parsons, and M. P. Pobjoy.
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      Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Springer, 2022)
      With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, there emerged two controversies related to the responsibility of philosophical ideas for the rise of German militarism. The first, mainly journalistic, controversy concerned ...
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      Plutarch and the “Malicious” historian 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (University of Illinois Press, 2020)
      This article shows that Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch’s narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to ...
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      Plutarch on Cato the younger and the annexation of Cyprus 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Impr. Oleffe, 2022)
      This article offers a literary analysis of Plutarch’s narrative of Cato’s annexation of Cyprus in his Life of Cato the Younger. Through a detailed study of the parallel sources for this incident, it offers insights into ...
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      Plutarch's rhetoric of periautologia: Demosthenes 1–3 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
      This paper approaches Plutarch's prologue to the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero (Dem. 1–3) from a novel perspective, seeking to examine Plutarch's prefatory self-display in light of his instructions in the essay On ...
    • Review  

      Plutarch's versatility 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
      A review of (J.) Opsomer, (G.) Roskam, (F.B.) Titchener (edd.) A Versatile Gentleman. Consistency in Plutarch's Writing. Pp. vi + 304. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016.
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      Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Walter de Gruyter, 2018)
      In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers’ active ...
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      Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and the Analytic-Continental Divide 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
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      Portraits, Facial Perception, and Aspect-Seeing 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Oxford University Press, 2022)
      Is there a substantial difference between a portrait depicting the sitter’s face made by an artist and an image captured by a machine able to simulate the neuro-physiology of facial perception? Drawing on the later ...
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      Powers and Nomic Relations: Powerful Categoricalism and the Dualist Model 

      Livanios, Vassilis (Springer, 2023)
      The bulk of the literature concerning the governing role of non-Humean laws has been concentrated on the alleged incapability of higher order nomic facts to determine the regularities in the behaviour of actual objects, ...
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      Pragmatism and the History of the Analytic-Continental Divide 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
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      Preface 

      Tzounakas, Spyridon (Deinotera Editrice, 2023)
      The collection of essays included in this volume arises from an interdisciplinary research project on the reception of ancient Cyprus in the culture of the western world, a programme that was co-funded by the European ...
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      The proems of Plutarch’s lives and historiography 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Dept. of Classics, University of Durham, 2017)
      In this article I focus on Plutarch’s prologues to the Alexander–Caesar, Nicias–Crassus, and Theseus–Romulus books, all of which discuss Plutarch’s biographical method in relation to history. I suggest that in these ...
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      Proselytes of a new nation: Muslim conversions to Orthodox Christianity in modern Greece 

      Katsikas, Stefanos (Oxford University Press, 2022-09)
      Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did conversion mean to the converts? What were their economic, social, and professional profiles? And how did ...
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      Prostitution in Ancient Cyprus, the myth of thepPropoetides in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the perpetuation of a stereotype 

      Tzounakas, Spyridon (Deinotera Editrice, 2023)
      This study examines certain ancient sources that mention prostitution in Cyprus, focuses on how this idea became established in Latin literature, and argues that historical facts aside, it was the existence of such Latin ...
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      Reading history ethically: Plutarch on Alexander’s murder of Cleitus (Alex. 50-52.2) 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (International Plutarch Society, 2019)
      This paper offers a close reading of Plutarch’s treatment of Alexander’s murder of Cleitus in the Life of Alexander (50-52.2), analyzing the specific narrative techniques that Plutarch employs to draw his readers to ...
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      Reconfiguring the imperial past: narrative patterns and historical interpretation in Herodian's History of the empire 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Brill, 2022)
      In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. ...
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      The Roman Conquest of Cyprus in the Rhetorical Strategies of Cicero’s De domo sua and Pro Sestio 

      Tzounakas, Spyridon (Deinotera Editrice, 2023)
      This study explores how the Roman conquest of Cyprus is rhetorically treated by Cicero in two of his speeches, De domo sua and Pro Sestio. It argues that Cicero not only criticizes the actions of Clodius and his compatriots, ...
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      Russell reading Bergson 

      Vrahimis, Andreas (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
      This chapter examines Bertrand Russell’s various confrontations with Bergson’s work. Russell’s meetings with Bergson during 1911 would be followed in 1912 by the publication of Russell’s earliest polemical pieces. His 1912 ...