Author: Várzeas, Marta Isabel de Oliveira
Title: Tragedy and philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Review/Collection: In : José Ribeiro Ferreira, Delfin Leao, Manuel Troster & Paula Barata Dias (eds.), Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch, Imprensa Da Universidade De Coimbra, Coimbra University Press, 2009, 570 p.
Year edition: 2009
Pages: 333-343
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography
Description: 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. Te 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. [Author].
Link: https://www.academia.edu/59551754/Tragedy_and_philanthropia_in_the_Lives_of_Demosthenes_and_Cicero
Author initials: Várzeas 2009
Title: Tragedy and philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Review/Collection: In : José Ribeiro Ferreira, Delfin Leao, Manuel Troster & Paula Barata Dias (eds.), Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch, Imprensa Da Universidade De Coimbra, Coimbra University Press, 2009, 570 p.
Year edition: 2009
Pages: 333-343
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography
Description: 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. Te 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. [Author].
Link: https://www.academia.edu/59551754/Tragedy_and_philanthropia_in_the_Lives_of_Demosthenes_and_Cicero
Author initials: Várzeas 2009
