Aitia, n°12/2022

Lectures du livre III des Entretiens d'Epictète

Edited by Sophie Aubert-Baillot, Christophe Cusset, Gweltaz Guyomarc'h

Aitia. Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle

Interpretations of Epictetus' Discourses, Book 3

Focusing on the practice and use of philosophical doctrines, Epictetus' Discourses include not only dialogues between the Stoic master and his disciples on the main Stoic principles, but also speeches and comments on texts which are often borrowed from Chrysippus.

The study concentrates here on Book 3, which is particularly noteworthy for the variety of topics it covers. In this book, Epictetus insists on exercise in all its forms - exercise for a man who wants to progress towards the good, asceticism of desires and propensities, training in order to deal with representations. He also describes the position of the philosopher in relation to the layman, the rhetorician, the teacher of philosophy and the external environment in general. Finally, he continues the polemic initiated by his Stoic predecessors against the Epicureans, whose principles he denounces as incoherent with the life they lead, and he draws a famous and laudatory portrait of cynicism, a philosophy with which the founder of Stoicism had a deep affinity.

Through an approach that brings together contributors from various specialties, this volume, which is the result of international meetings in ancient philosophy, seeks to give an account of Epictetus' thought in all its richness by examining the historical, rhetorical and philosophical issues at stake in Epictetus' Discourses, Book 3.

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Contributions:

Christophe Cusset

Aitia, 11.2/2021
Visualizing the Iliad

Visualiser l'Iliade

The aim of the papers brought together in this volume is to show how the Homeric text and the figurative representations can be complementary to each other, and how they shed light on each other.We have tried to take into consideration the different modes of representation, giving a preponderant place to figurative,pictorial or sculptural represent

Christophe Cusset

Aitia, 11.1/2021

Recherches sur Hérodas/Hérondas
Research on Herodas

The work of Herodas, which emphasizes a learned culture, the crossing of genres and brevity, is at the heart of Hellenistic aesthetics. This volume brings together several articles which aim to highlight certain specific characteristics of the art of this poet, who has been rediscovered relatively recently

Isabelle Boehm, Christophe Cusset, Emmanuelle Morel

Aitia, n°9-2/2019
Aitia, n° 9-2/2019

Approches linguistiques d'Apollonios de Rhodes
Linguistic approaches of Apollonius Rhodius

This issue of the Aitia-journal collects the proceedings of an unprecedented workshop on the language of Apollonius of Rhodes. If the Alexandrian literature knew a revival of interest for a few decades, the attention which one paid to the language used by the Alexandrian poets remains still very weak. Here is asked the question of linguistic study