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In the Greek world, the figure of an athlete is often presented as a model of human ideal. Classical sculpture depicts bodies bordering on perfection and references abound about the social recognition they received. However, at the same time critical voices were raised against athletes’ excessive trainingparticularly by poets and intellectuals. They criticized both hard training which caused serious physical and even mental diseases, as well as boundless enthusiasm for their activities. This article will review testimonies that reflect this double face of sporting world in ancient Greece.

The aim of this article is to analyze the anger that Eurydice experiences against the protagonist due to the death of her son in Hypsipyle. The involuntariness of the decease, a decisive aspect in the Aristotelian analysis of ὀργή in Rhetoric, is considered by the queen in the second episode after listening to Amphiaraus’ testimony in favor of Hypsipyle. According to Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Eurydice should depose her anger when she verifies the accidental nature of her son’s death.

This article analyzes how Aristotle conceives domination by male citizen in ancient Greece. Although in Politics the barbarian as a slave by nature seems to be the opposite of the citizen, what is perceived when considering Aristotle’s biological works is the opposition between male and female. This biological substratum which intersects with his ideas about relationships between body and soul, and matter and form, overlaps with the political sphere leading to an irreversible domination of male over female, which does not happen with the slave.

In this paper we aim to analize philologically the speeches composing the funeral mourning of Ajax, Phoenix and Agamemnon due to Achilles’ death (Posthomerica III, 435-458, 463-489 and 493-503, respectively), both from the point view of their artistic composition as from their functionality inBook III. 

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Our work aims to provide an explanation of the natural logic of movement in Aristotle’s Physics on the basis of the pair mover-moved and the formulation of the relation among the parts, based on the contact thesis. So we focus on the first chapters of book III and especially on certain relevant chapters of books VII and VIII of the treatise. Starting from the general principle of movement and its characterization, we develop an unifying approach which intend to highlight some relevant aspects of Aristotelian theory of movement and show that the connection between the mover and the moved is basically accounted by the fact that every series of movements leads to a first mover which is not moved by another mover. One of our contributions is to show that the concept of the first mover is not simply identified with the Unmoved Prime Mover, but rather is related to the general concept of ‘first mover’ as the ultimate source of all motion and chain of motions. This way, according to the distinction between a mover part and a moved part, our conclusion is that the moving part that exists within every substance is the first immovable mover that originally imparts motion to the body or its material parts.The originality of our work is the connection with other treatises such as De Anima and De Motu Animalium through the thesis of contact. 

This article deals with Manilius’ Astronomica as a textual representation of the universe. The poem’s central subject is how the study of the astrology helps human being to know, through observation of the stars and calculation of its movements, the characteristics of their personality or the prediction of certain types of terrestrial and celestial phenomena like comets, eclipses, etc., as well to understand all their causes, the structure of cosmos and the laws that rule it. Manilius believes human being is a miniature representation of the universe, a microcosmos, and his life, therefore, depends on the movements ofstars and of the same laws that rule them. Teaching and learning these laws necessarily require observation and knowledge of the sky but also textreading.Through the stylistic and structural analysis of certain passages we will find how Manilius through his poem imitates the functioning of the universe, the relationships and influences of the stars and how he tries to transmit it to his readers.

In this research note we develop, broadly speaking, some interpretations of the collected poetry (1982-2022) of Aurora Luque, who not only stands out for being one of the leading translators of Sappho into Spanish, but also for her rescue of Greco-Latin poetesses and for incorporating such subjects through her poems. In Las sirenas de abajo (2023) there appear different manipulations, adaptations and updates, especially sororal and Humanistic, of different myths, characters, authors and books of Greco-Latin Tradition. At the same time I perceive from the point of view of an active reader postmodern discursive weavings between her Classical roots and Anne Carson’s (Anglo-Saxon Tradition).

In this paper we analyze the relationship between the novel Rayuela of Julio Cortázar and Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. First of all, in chapter 148 of Rayuela we find a quotation of Gell., V, 7, a text related to the supposed etymology of the Latin word persona (“mask”) from the verb personare (“to make resonate”). We analyze the complex nature of this mention and its possible meaning, as well as the structural correlations between both works. Finally, we propose an unknown and unforeseen correlation.