2017· Research Portal (King's College London)· Vol 5· 0 citations· 15 references
Abstract
The aim of this contribution is to examine how the Natural Problems, attributed to Aristotle (but only partially authentic), were received in the first centuries of the Imperial period, specifically in Platonist milieus. I will zoom in on three distinguished Platonic readers: viz. Plutarch of Chaeronea, L. Calvenus Taurus, and Apuleius of Madauros. Which reading contexts can we distinguish in the literature and what do we learn about the readers’ response to what was read? Answering questions like these will contribute to our better understanding of how the Aristotelian genre of natural problems was revived and gained in popularity beyond the confines of the Lyceum, in an era that was pivotal to the transmission of Aristotelianism to many generations to come.
This article examines the intersection between imperial writings on animals and post-Hellenistic debates about exegesis. It is the first study to argue that interpreters drawing on Aristotelian theories of voice and Hellenistic ideas of natural sympathy treated the meaningful but non-verbal animal as a test case of n...
As the most widely circulated early Ottoman gloss on Aristotelian-Avicennan natural philosophy, Ḫocazāde’s paratext on Mullāzāde’s commentary on Abharī’s
Hidāyat al-ḥikma
illuminates the reception and defense of hylomorphism in postclassical madrasas. Working largely within an Avicennan framework, this previously...
Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he fin...
M. Crawford· International Journal of Sys...· 0 citations
This paper argues that Thuc. 2.39–40 offers an ironic response to contemporary criticism of Athens by positively reframing the key terms associated with anti-Athenian slurs. It traces the use of
aneimenōs
,
rhaithumia
and related concepts in Thucydides and other Classical sources, showing how these terms were a...
Jakub Filonik· Journal of Hellenic Studies· 0 citations
Abstract Lorenzo Valla is renowned for his attempt to revitalise the classical language of ancient Rome, the ‚golden Latin‘ of Cicero’s epoch and the ‚silver Latin‘ from the time of Seneca and Tacitus. And indeed, he succeeded in restoring an antiquated style of prose writing and pompous speech, which might be satirise...
The Aristotelian idiom, according to which the intellect is a “blank” or “bare slate” before it has experienced the sensory world was also used in empiricist arguments
during the Middle Ages. In this short inquiry, I examine the use of the adjective bare (or naked) in both epistemology and metaphysics, focusing on four...
E. Lukacs· Analiza i Egzystencja· 0 citations
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