"COUNTERFEIT IN CHARACTER BUT PERSUASIVE IN APPEARANCE": REVIEWING THE AINIGMA OF THE TABULA CEBETIS.
The article analyzes the ancient Greek text known as the "Tabula Cebetis" written by a pseudonymous author credited as Cebes. While much scholarship has focused on the text's moralistic message, the authors focus on its aesthetic interests and similarities to aesthetic traditions that influenced oth...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 109; no. 4; pp. 285 - 325 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Chicago Press
Oct2014
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| Sumario: | The article analyzes the ancient Greek text known as the "Tabula Cebetis" written by a pseudonymous author credited as Cebes. While much scholarship has focused on the text's moralistic message, the authors focus on its aesthetic interests and similarities to aesthetic traditions that influenced other Hellenistic and Second Sophistic era texts. According to the authors, the "Tabula Cebetis" is a meta-pedagogical reflection on allegory that uses references to riddles. |
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