Some interesting work has also been done in the history of Classical Scholarship - including the work of South African Classics scholars - Lexicography, Epigraphy, Art, and Archaeology. Further contributions have been made in the field of Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Religion. He was most likely a student of the philosopher Antisthenes (445-365 BCE) and, in the words of Plato (allegedly), was A Socrates gone mad. Many contributions have been made in the field of Ancient History, but the majority have been literary in nature. 404-323 BCE) was a Greek Cynic philosopher best known for holding a lantern to the faces of the citizens of Athens claiming he was searching for an honest man. Legend says he died of an infected dog bite, and it’s said that the Corinthians erected to his memory a pillar (long disappeared) on which rested a dog carved of Parian marble. It is not known whether Diogenes was insulted with the epithet 'doggish' and made a virtue of it, or whether he first took up the dog theme himself. Diogenes responded by lifting his leg and urinating on them. Diogenes as dogged or dog-like edit Many anecdotes of Diogenes refer to his dog-like behavior, and his praise of a dog's virtues.
The journal publishes work in all fields of Classics, from textual criticism to the Classical Tradition / Reception Studies. When a group of wealthy Athenians at a banquet began throwing bones at Diogenes and called him a dog. It has published work by scholars residing in South Africa, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Rhodesia and Nyasaland / Zimbabwe / Tanzania, Belgium, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, Poland, Greece, France, and Japan. But Diogenes said he was the guard dog of. He just laughed and said You know what, you’re right, I am a dog I’m the dog of Zeus Now, the god Hades had a pet dog, called Cerberus, whose job it was to guard all the dead people, the ghosts, in the Underworld. known as Diogenes the Dog, and his philosophy was called doglike. Diogenes wasn’t hurt by words, even when people called him a nasty dog. The language of publication is mainly English, but many contributions have also been written in Afrikaans, German, French, Dutch, Latin, and Italian.Īcta Classica is an international journal. Diogenes the Cynic was born in the Greek city of Sinope, on the southern shore of. Articles from volume 57 (2014) have DOI tags (DOI 10.15731/AClass).Īcta Classica publishes articles, notes, and reviews. Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa (ISSN 0065-1141) appears annually and is listed on the ISI and SAPSE list of accredited journals.
0 kommentar(er)
