Un frammento inesplorato di Demostene nel Commento di Olimpiodoro al Gorgia di Platone.

This paper aims at sheding light on the role played by Athenian orators in the paideia of a late-antiquity philosopher such as Olympiodorus, leader of the Alexandrian school in the middle of the 6th century A.D. A quotation, in his Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, of the fifth letter ascribed to Demos...

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Publicado en:Medioevo Greco Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 99 - 112
Autor principal: Giaquinta, Irene
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Edizioni dell' Orso 2016
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Sumario:This paper aims at sheding light on the role played by Athenian orators in the paideia of a late-antiquity philosopher such as Olympiodorus, leader of the Alexandrian school in the middle of the 6th century A.D. A quotation, in his Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, of the fifth letter ascribed to Demosthenes, is a witness of Olympiodorus' intention to rehabilitate rhetoric, and of his deep consciousness of the close relationship between rhetoric, philosophy and politics.