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This work analyzes the representation of the Dionysian retinue in three of Sophocles’ tragedies –Antigone vv. 1115-1154, Oedipus the King vv. 209-215 and Oedipus at Colonus vv. 668-693– and in Pindar’s dithyramb 70b. The recurrence of some key ritual elements, absent from other sources, and, mainly, the coincident description of the retinue that transforms from a procession into a cyclic chorus suggest that Sophocles’ tragedies take as a model some typical dithyrambic features.  

Reseña de Filón de Alejandría en clave contemporánea de P. Druille y L. Pérez (Eds.) por M. Coria.

This article is interested in Plato's Timaeus, not only insofar as this dialogue deals with sensible reality and the possibility of knowledge about it, but also as a philosophical composition that dramatizes an ethical reflection. The method of interpretation proceeds according to a literary and philosophical reading of the dialogue. The aim is to show that Plato stages the ethics and politics that derive from cosmology. To do so, I first characterise the character who gives his name to the dialogue, Timaeus, to understand his intervention from a situated point of view. Next, I determine the status of the cosmological discourse, starting from the principles defined in the proem of the cosmology. Finally, I reveal the coherence between the meaning and the pragmatics of the cosmological discourse. This allows me to conclude that Plato embodies in his main character an ethical proposal that is critical of the dominant political discourse in the Athens of his time.

In this article, we propose to reflect on childhood and paideia in Athenian society during the classical period (5th and 4th centuries BC). We will proceed to build an understanding of the importance of children in Athens, beginning from the difficulty of demarcating and conceptualizing the child age group among the Greeks, afterwords analysing their negative social perception. The importance of children will be considered beyond their usefulness in the perpetuation of the domestic group and the polis, attending to their relationships that involve family affection and their socialization, specially through children’s games and play. The Athenian imagery painted on ceramic media will be the essential documentation for the present study.

Reseña de  Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens. Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon de R. Holschuh Simmons por M. Franco San Román.

In this paper, we argue that Pierre Hadot’s popular historiographical thesis regarding “philosophy as a way of life,” wherein the seal of Ancient Philosophy was the consistency between life and doctrine, is an empirically untraceable thesis and yet another instance of the so-called “normative fallacy.” It is through this thesis that Hadot projected his conception of philosophy from Monastic Catholicism and Existentialism in Ancient philosophy. Here we show that, without this empirical evidence, said ideal of consistency between life and doctrine loses one of its main foundations. Furthermore, by appealing to recent empirical evidence, we also argue that this ideal is unattainable today.

Reseña de Éticas estoicas de J. M. Zamora Calvo por M. Ertola Urtubey. 

The aim of this paper is to analyze the emotions in fragments 583 (+ POxy 5292) and 589 R of Sophocles' Tereus. Both fragments are preserved in the Anthologion of Stobeus and we are interested in understanding them in their double valence: on the one hand, stripped of the context of the drama and inserted in the internal logic created by the anthologist, they function as maxims, with generalizing value; on the other hand, they have a particular value as surviving parts of a lost play and provide information about its plot, some of the characters involved in it, the emotions that run through them and the language used, among other aspects. The fragments we have selected for our analysis refer to the behavior of the female characters in this tragedy and give an account of their emotional experience -a subject that concerns us in particular- in relation to the events that occur or are described. First, we will summarize the proposals about the reconstruction of the plot of Tereus, from the surviving sources of this tragedy, to continue with the analysis of its conservation and conclude with the study of emotions in the two fragments that we have selected to explore in this article.

Three female characters remain subjugated to the lamentations of the violent acts they have suffered. The heroines of Euripides, Fermani, and Suárez suffer from male abandonment and, consequently, from lost love transformed into an unhealthy passion. Medea, the teratological entity of Greek tragedy, appears in the verses of the Prologue and at the beginning of the Parodos as a fully human being in her tragic nature, and this is projected, as reception studies have observed, in the characters of Fermani and Suárez, especially in the way each drama was conceived, that is, in the lamentations of its protagonists. On the one hand, Fermani takes up the Euripidean disquisition between past and present temporality, an element of the thrênos, to which he adds the life-death binomial, βίος-θάνατος. On the other hand, Suárez reflects the same temporality that corresponds to the utterance "I was the lady" in the face of the present and denigrating monstrosity of the vermin. In this way, both texts are proposed as a detailed analysis of female emotions.