Browsing Τμήμα Κλασικών Σπουδών και Φιλοσοφίας / Department of Classics and Philosophy by Title
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Le plomb magique de Phalasarna (IC II-XIX 7)
(De Boccard, 1995)
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Plutarch and the “Malicious” historian
(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
(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
(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 ...
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Plutarch's versatility
(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
(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
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)
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Polybius and Biography. Genre and Cognitive Poetics
(De Gruyter, 2018)
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Portraits, Facial Perception, and Aspect-Seeing
(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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The position of the Macedonian dialect
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Powers and Nomic Relations: Powerful Categoricalism and the Dualist Model
(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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Praecepta tonica
(Walter de Gruyter, 2015)The Praecepta Tonica by John of Alexandria (5th-6th cent. AD) ranks beside Pseudo-Arcadius' epitome as one of the two most important surviving epitomes of Herodian's monumental De Prosodia Catholica: it is a particularly ...
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Pragmatism and the History of the Analytic-Continental Divide
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
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Preface
(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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Presentation of biblical figures in poetic paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Metabole of St. John’s Gospel
(Brill, 2019)
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The proems of Plutarch’s lives and historiography
(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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Prostitution in Ancient Cyprus, the myth of thepPropoetides in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the perpetuation of a stereotype
(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 ...