Benefitting benefactors: Greek priests and euergetism

• Autores: B. Dignas
• Localización: Antiquité classique, ISSN 0770-2817, Nº. 75, 2006, págs. 71-84
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Alcidamas� eleatic-gorgian Rhetoric in Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) and the Four Fundamental Functions of the ?????.

    This study aims to show that the testimony of Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) regarding the four functions of the ????? by Alcidamas (f?s?? � ?p?fas?? � ???t?s?? � p??sa???e?s??) negation question answer) could be considered as justified from both rhetorical and philosophical points of view. It offers the opportunity for two trains of thought: the first pair (f?s?? � ?p?fas??) could be related to the anti-predicative function of ?????, but also to the predicative function implied in Gorgias� own dialectics of ??t??es??. The second pair (???t?s?? � p??sa???e?s??) would be related to the rhetoric of improvisation and of p???t??p?a, also characteristic of Gorgias� rhetoric. Two points are developed: 1) The gorgian dialectic eleatism of Alcidamas, in which are emphasised the concepts of truth and likelihood and of philosophy and the philosophic sophist; 2) Alcidamas� hermeneutics, such as from the explanatory and stylistic point of view.