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Title: Tragedy and philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Authors: Várzeas, Marta
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos
Journal: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/2353
Abstract: The concept of philanthropia is often associated with that of compassion and characterizes, ideally, the relations between the powerful and those who are found to be in a situation of fragility and impotence. The intention of this study is to show how, in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero, this notion of philanthropia takes on a tragic tone, one which is reinforced by the allusions to Sophocles’s Antigone, a play which seems to serve as an ethical frame of reference for the evaluation of the protagonists’ ethos in crucial moments of their lives.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/32015
ISBN: 978-989-26-0908-9 (PDF)
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-8281-17-3_30
Rights: open access
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