Protrepticus

Protrepticus
Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1964
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Clementis Alexandrini Protrepticus

Clementis Alexandrini Protrepticus
Author: M. Marcovich
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900431301X

Clement of Alexandria (ca A.D. 150-215) is one of the leading Church Fathers and the first Christian philosopher. His early Protrepticus is of great significance for Patristics, Classical scholarship, Greek philosophy and religion. The treatise is preserved virtually in a single manuscript --the famous Codex Arethae, Parisinus graecus 451, copied in 913-914,-- which proves to be lacunose, corrupt, interpolated and dislocated. The only critical edition of the Protrepticus was prepared back in 1905 by Otto Stählin (G.C.S., Volume 12). The present edition is based on a thorough in-depth study of the Parisinus, on the inclusion of the entire opus of Clement, on an extended and updated Quellenforschung, and finally, on a more sensitive approach to meaning and textual criticism. The edition includes the Scholia.

Exhortation to the Heathen

Exhortation to the Heathen
Author: Clement of Alexandria
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Total Pages: 106
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated in song to this day in the chorus of the Greeks; the one for having allured the fishes, and the other for having surrounded Thebes with walls by the power of music. Another, a Thracian, a cunning master of his art (he also is the subject of a Hellenic legend), tamed the wild beasts by the mere might of song; and transplanted trees—oaks—by music. I might tell you also the story of another, a brother to these—the subject of a myth, and a minstrel—Eunomos the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper. A solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate the death of the Pythic serpent, when Eunomos sang the reptile’s epitaph.

Clementis Alexandrini Protrepticus

Clementis Alexandrini Protrepticus
Author: Saint Clement (of Alexandria)
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004104495

The Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandria is preserved virtually in a single manuscript, the famous Codex Arethae, copied in the tenth century for Arethas, the Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. The text was copied from an exemplar in poor shape, to the extent that the codex is full of textual corruptions. The only critical edition of the Protrepticus was prepared in 1905 by Otto Stahlin, who published a revised edition in 1936. The problem with this edition is that the editor was not sensitive enough to meaning and textual problems. As a result, scholars are still lacking a reliable critical text of the treatise. The present edition aims to fill this gap. It is based on an in-depth study of all the relevant sources, including the entire collected works of Clement, since he frequently employs the same locus communis in different works.

Exhortations to Philosophy

Exhortations to Philosophy
Author: James Henderson Collins II
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190266546

This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.

Revisiting Aristotle's Fragments

Revisiting Aristotle's Fragments
Author: António Pedro Mesquita
Publisher: de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110679786

This book articulates a new approach to Aristotle's lost works by providing a reassessment and new methodological explorations of the fragments. The individual essays use the fragments as tools of interpretation, shed new light on different areas