When wisdom calls
Subtitle: philosophical protreptic in Antiquity
By: edited by Olga Alieva, Annemaré Kotzé, Sophie Van der Meeren
Series: Monothéismes et philosophie; Monothéismes et philosophie
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9782503568553
Subjects: Ancient Philosophy; Moral exhortation; History
Description: The ancients never confined their philosophy to the systematic exposition of doctrine. Orations, treatises, dialogues and letters aimed at persuading people to become lovers of wisdom. Rhetorical feats, logical intricacies, or mystical experience served to recruit adherents, to promote and defend philosophy and to support adherents. Protreptic was the literary form that served all these functions. This volume seeks to illuminate both the diversity and the continuity of protreptic in the work of a wide range of authors, from Parmenides to Augustine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-497) and index.

Contributions in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Protreptic : a protean genre / Olga Alieva; title: Protreptic and poetry : Hesiod, Parmenides, Empedocles / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui; title: Protreptic and Pythagorean sayings : Iamblichus's Protrepticus / Johan C. Thom; title: Protreptic and epideixis : Corpus Platonicum / Yuri Shichalin, Olga Alieva; title: Protreptic and apotreptic : Aristotle's dialogue Protrepticus / D.S. Hutchinson, Monte Ransome Johnson; title: Protreptic and epistolography : Epicurus / Jan Erik He€ler; title: Protreptique et exégèse : l'exhortation chez Philon d'Alexandrie / Géraldine Hertz; title: Protreptic and philosophical dialogue : Cicero / Georgia Tsouni; title: Protreptique et auto-exhortation : les Lettres à Lucilius de Sénèque / Jordi Pia- Comella; title: Protreptic and paraenesis : The Second Epistle of Clement / James Starr; title: Protreptique et apologétique : Justin Martyr / Sophie Van der Meeren; title: Protreptic and medicine : Galen / Vincenzo Damiani; title: Protreptic and satire : Lucian / Markus Hafner; title: Protreptic and rhetoric : Clement of Alexandria / Marco Rizzi; title: Protreptic and mystagogy : Augustine's early works / Paul van Geest; title: Protreptic and autobiography : Dio's Thirteenth Oration, Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho and Cyprian's To Donatus / Annemaré Kotzé; title: Protreptic and biography : the case of Marinus's Vita Procli / Constantin Ionuţ Mihai; title: Protreptique et isagogique : les vestibules de la philosophie / Sophie Van der Meeren.