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https://hdl.handle.net/10216/79677| Author(s): | Várzeas, Marta |
| Title: | Tragedy and Philanthropia in the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| 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 theallusions 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. |
| Subject: | Outras humanidades Other humanities |
| Scientific areas: | Humanidades::Outras humanidades Humanities::Other humanities |
| DOI: | 10.14195/978-989-8281-17-3_30 |
| URI: | https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/79677 |
| Source: | Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch |
| Document Type: | Capítulo ou Parte de Livro |
| Rights: | openAccess |
| License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Appears in Collections: | FLUP - Capítulo ou Parte de Livro |
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