Il riconoscimento di Elena come percorso di episteme: Euripide e le teorie sofistiche sulla conoscenza

This recognition-scene may be divided into three or four steps; this progression seems very close the theory of the five degrees of knowledge in Plato (Epist. 7): both seem to depend from Gorgias’ ideas

Il processo a Socrate nella rappresentazione platonica

L'impressione di assoluta veridicità e autorevolezza del personaggio di Socrate nell'Apologia platonica è ottenuta dall'autore con un uso sapiente di vari registri stilistici: dal parlato alla poesia alla retorica

Tradurre Omero

The question of translating the great epic is complicated by its oral-traditional quality. The A. examines a brief section of Iliad XX, highlighting the difficulties encountered by the translator

Misoginia o mimesi? Ricerca e rappresentazione dell'elemento femminile nel dramma euripideo

Comedians and ancient biographers blame Euripides for his misogyny, though he does not appear in his works more misogynist than any archaic and classical Greek author. The reason for this reputation must probably be sought in his constant research for dramatic mimesis, which led him (on the basis of the medical and philosophical beliefs of the time) to emphasize and to show on the stage the traits of his female characters that he believed more 'womanly': sensitivity, maternal love, but also erotic passion

Il teatro nella città. La Poetica prima di Aristotele

Nella polis ateniese di V secolo erano già oggetto di dibattito alcune questioni (come la funzione dell'opera teatrale) che avrebbero più tardi trovato spazio nella poetica platonica ed aristotelica

Letture (e scritture) allegoriche nella Grecia pre-alessandrina

Long before the appearance of the term ‘allegory’ (attested for the first time within Stoicism), there came into use in ancient Greece, from the sixth century. a. C., an allegorical interpretation of the mythic narratives preserved in the Homeric and Hesiodic poems; this practice took hold in the classical age, especially at the hands of the Sophists. In more remote dates, perhaps as early as the Iliad, we can see the interest of poets and philosophers towards such a device, so well-suited for didactic or satirical purposes