The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire

Heller, Anna; Nijf, Onno M. van

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“…Diese Hypothese könnte eventuell auch durch eine weitere Schrift Plutarchs aus dem Korpus der Moralia bekräftigt werden. Bei dem Dialog "Über die Klugheit der Tiere" (De sollertia animalium, 959A-985C) handelt es sich nämlich größtenteils um eine dialektische Übung zwischen zwei Schülern an einer Bildungseinrichtung, die sich mit Plutarchs eigener philosophischer Schule identifizieren lässt: Ein Schüler plädiert für die These, die Landtiere seien 45 Mehr zu diesem Phänomen bei Veyne 1976;Gauthier 1985;Zuiderhoek 2009;Heller, van klüger, während ein anderer wiederum für die Gegenthese spricht, die Wassertiere seien doch klüger. Zwischendurch finden sich aber im Text nicht wenige Belege (etwa 960A-B, 965B, 965E, 975C, 985C), 48 die eine zumindest gelegentliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Rhetorik in Plutarchs Konzept eines philosophischen Unterrichts in der Tat dokumentieren können.…”

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Let’s talk about rhetoric! Plutarch’s position within a long, ideologically burdened tradition in the history of education

Tsiampokalos

2021

Philologia Classica

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The question of Plutarch’s attitude towards rhetoric has occupied several scholars since the 19th century. The traditional view is that it is rather negative. Although Plutarch acknowledges some value in rhetoric as a means of persuasion in politics, he nevertheless attributes the dominant role to ethos. As it will be shown below, however, this picture is only partially justified after a closer examination of the relevant texts in their historical-cultural context. In the present work, Plutarch’s remarks on rhetoric are considered against the background of the traditional conflict between rhetoric and philosophy, and analyzed in relation to three thematically significant oppositions, namely that between teaching and persuading, between speech and ethos, and between the philosophers and the sophists. The result is that the secondary, supporting role that rhetoric assumes in certain passages as a means of persuasion is to be relativized rather than emphasized. It can be explained in each case on the basis of its argumentative function. In other cases in Plutarch’s work, where rhetoric is discussed, the attitude expressed is in principle positive without the usual opposition between speech and ethos playing a role at the same time.

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Let’s talk about rhetoric! Plutarch’s position within a long, ideologically burdened tradition in the history of education

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2021

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“…In recent publications, peer polity interaction is now accepted as one of the most fruitful ways of looking at Hellenistic inter-polis interactions and their van Nijf and Alston 2011;Alston, van Nijf, and Williamson 2013. See also for instance Dmitriev 2005, Grieb 2008and Carlsson 2010with Hamon 2009Zuiderhoek 2009; more recently Heller and van Nijf 2017;Börm and Luraghi 2018. 26 A landmark study in this respect is Horden and Purcell 2000: The Corrupting Sea.…”

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“…Some basic works on the social role of euergetism and honour in Greek and Roman contexts are: Veyne 1976;Andreau, Schmitt, and Schnapp 1978;Gauthier 1985;Lendon 1997;Zuiderhoek 2009; Ma 2013;Domingo Gygax 2016;Heller and Van Nijf 2017. The role of honour in inter-city relationships has not been studied much, see also CHAPTER 1.…”

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Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos

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2021

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This is the first book to analyse urban social relations in the eastern Roman Empire through the perspective of one elite family. From the late first to the mid-third century CE, the Vedii and their descendants were magistrates, priests and priestesses of local and imperial cults, and presided over Ephesos' many religious festivals. They were also public benefactors, paying for the construction of public buildings for the pleasure of fellow citizens. This study examines the material evidence of their activities - the buildings with their epigraphic and decorative programs – to show how members of the family created monuments to enhance their own and their family's prestige. It also discusses the inscriptions of the honorific statue monuments raised by the city and its sub-groups for the family in return for their benefactions, arguing that these reflect the community's values and interests as much as they commemorate the benefactors and their families.

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The Politics of Honour in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire

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Let’s talk about rhetoric! Plutarch’s position within a long, ideologically burdened tradition in the history of education

Let’s talk about rhetoric! Plutarch’s position within a long, ideologically burdened tradition in the history of education

Carving communities in stone

Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos

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