Thinking through Letters: Studies on Epistolary Collections by Greek Philosophers /

Thinking through Letters: Studies on Epistolary Collections by Greek Philosophers /

This volume offers a renewed examination of the letter collections attributed to Greek philosophers from the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. Long dismissed as largely inauthentic since Bentley, these texts are reconsidered here not for their authorship, but for what they reveal about the r...

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Other Authors: Donato, Marco (Editor), Scrofani, Francesca (Editor), Dorandi, Tiziano (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; 179.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Subjects:

Classical Studies.
Ancient Philosophy.
Epigraphy & Papyrology.

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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

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Table of Contents:
  • Préface
  • List of Tables
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Marco Donato and Francesca Scrofani
  • 1 On Tyrants, Sages and Philosophers
  • The So-Called Letters of the Wise Men
  • Andrea Salomone
  • 2 Les lettres du pseudo-Héraclite
  • Une lecture au prisme du stoïcisme
  • Max Bergamo
  • 3 Les conventions épistolaires des Lettres hippocratiques
  • Antonio Ricciardetto
  • 4 Greetings from Socrates
  • The Portrayal of the Philosopher in the Pseudo-Socratic Epistles
  • Marco Donato
  • 5 « Ce que pourraient dire les disciples de Socrate si ... »
  • Les lettres attribuées aux Socratiques comme fictions
  • Francesca Scrofani
  • 6 Les lettres cyniques
  • Questions philosophiques et épistolographiques
  • Javier Campos Daroca et Juan Luis López Cruces
  • 7 Aux marges du « corpus » platonicien
  • Cinq lettres attribuées à Platon qui ne se trouvent pas chez Diogène Laërce
  • Luc Brisson
  • 8 The Letters of Chion of Heraclea as Counterfactual History
  • With Some Remarks on Timagenes/Timogenes of Miletus
  • Andrea Beghini
  • 9 The Letters of Aristotle
  • A Discussion of the Ancient Evidence
  • Gertjan Verhasselt
  • 1 The Arabic Secretum secretorum and the So-Called Epistolary Novel  Reading Pseudo-Aristotelian Letters in Arabic
  • Regula Forster
  • 11 Epicurus' Letters
  • Challenges of Distance Learning and Issues of Authenticity
  • Margherita Erbì
  • Index Locorum.