Philosophical vs. Biographical: A New Assessment of Greek Literature Peri biōn.
Greek works On Ways of Life have been seen to consist in either collections of biographies or proper philosophical treatises. Recently, a unitary reading of this literary phenomenon has been advanced, but some fundamental evidence has escaped attention. This evidence, along with what remains of Epic...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 75; no. 5; pp. 759 - 793 |
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2022
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