Philo as rhetorician: diatribe moments in the De Abrahamo.

Philo of Alexandria's treatise On the Life of Abraham provides a number of good examples of the literary genre of the diatribe. My purpose in this paper is to study the more elaborate of these, with a view to identifying their most characteristic features and exploring how they contribute to the eco...

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Publicado en:Hermathena no. 200/201; pp. 95 - 107
Autor principal: Dillon, John
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Publicado: Trinity College, Dublin Summer/Winter2016
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