Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos

9-24

Authors: Rafael Guimarães Tavares da Silva

Departing from considerations about the importance of “minor” characters to the development of the Odyssey (as it is the case of Eumaeus and Eurycleia), the present paper gives attention to a series of nuances present in the Book XIX and reflects about the ring form according to which this excerpt develops itself, around the recognition of Odysseus by his old servant. Going against the traditional interpretation of this passage, we defend that this recognition is not only desired by Odysseus, but is motivated – from a perspective internal to the narrative – by the necessity of reestablishing fundamental bases for the absent king to reacquire his name and history before reacquiring his power of fact.

43-59

Authors: Jean Felipe de Assis

Different understandings of the relationships between philosophical, mystical, and religious discourses are possible in the varied historical and intellectual contexts wherein the term contemplation (theoria) appears in the ancient world. The investigation of causes and the things themselves - ousia – are in the core of the contemplative attitude in selected authors. Therefore, important philosophical implications related to term theoria are under scrutiny in some specific texts of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus]. In the first, relationships between the senses and the idea permeate the most varied epistemai, having the contemplation as a solid argumentative ground as well as manifesting and expressing the Good – according to the Allegory of the Cave in the Republic and the inexpressibility of ousia in letter Vii. In the Aristotelian corpus, contemplation is a unifying principle, by which knowledge, pleasure, happiness and ethical demands integrate intellectual foundations. In the thought of Plotinus, the desire for transcendence, towards the contemplation of the Good and through the emanation of the one, is present in all beings. The principle of causality, implicit and explicit in the metaphysical discussions of these three authors, has in itself something evasive, which can only be evaded by a feeling that integrates human intellectual ambitions beyond their technical results. This, therefore, emphasizes the imperative investigation of wonder for human thought.

89-110

Authors: Lya Serignolli

This article aims to discuss the main aspects of metonymy according to Latin grammarians and rhetoricians. Firstly, definitions of this trope (or figure) according to Latin rhetoricians and grammarians, such as the unknown author of the Rhetorica Ad Herennium, Cicero, Quintilian, Donatus, Festus and Isidore of Seville, will be gathered. Secondly, different types of metonymy found in ancient texts will be observed. Finally, relations between metonymy and other figures and tropes, especially metaphor, synecdoche and catachresis will be investigated.

139-149

Authors: André Rodrigues Bertacchi

Tradução do discurso Em favor do inválido, de Lísias, acompanhada de introdução e breves notas explicativas.

167-178

Authors: Jacyntho Lins Brandão

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199-213

Authors: Beatriz Bossi

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229-235

Authors: Bernardo Lins Brandão

In his Contra a teoria dos dois mundos em Platão, Marcelo Pimenta Marques presents a Plato for whom there are not two parallel realities, sensible and intelligible, but one complex whole, in his differentiations and relations. His views on the platonic ontology, developed in this paper, can help in the formulation of a non-dualistic interpretation of Plotinus’ ethics and metaphysics, which I try to present here.