Lexis Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica

Rivista | Lexis
Fascicolo | Num. 40 (n.s.) – Dicembre 2022 – Fasc. 2
Articolo | Criticising Change: From Theognis to Plato

Criticising Change: From Theognis to Plato

Abstract

This paper examines how socio-political and cultural change is discussed in selected archaic and classical Greek texts (Thgn. 53-60, 287-92; Pherecr. fr. 155 K.-A.; Aristoph. Nub. 889-1023; Pl. Lg. 700a-701c). The analysis underlines the thematic, rhetorical and stylistic features and the moral preoccupations that are common to these sources. It is then argued that they all participate in an intertextual ‘discourse on change’. Furthermore, the article samples how close textual readings can be enhanced by the awareness that each single passage, as an instance of this tradition of discourse, is intertextually connected to the others.


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Presentato: 01 Aprile 2022 | Accettato: 21 Ottobre 2022 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2022 | Lingua: en

Keywords IntertextualityChangeTheognisMoralsPaideia


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