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STUDIES IN THE TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS & IDEAS 12 EDITOR IN CHIEF Pieter d’Hoine EDITORIAL BOARD Anthony Dupont Michèle Goyens Marleen Reynders Stefan Schorn SUBMISSIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO Marleen Reynders [email protected] Polemics and Networking in Graeco-Roman Antiquity edited by Pieter d’Hoine Geert Roskam Stefan Schorn Joseph Verheyden © 2021, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2021/0095/285 DOI 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.126156 ISBN 978-2-503-59688-4 e-ISBN 978-2-503-59689-1 ISSN 2565-8506 e-ISSN 2565-9626 Printed in the EU on acid-free paper. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pieter d’Hoine, Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn & Joseph Verheyden Polemic, Networking and their Interplay. Some Preliminary Comments 11 Part 1 PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS AND TRADITIONS Marco Donato Polemics in the ‘Pseudoplatonica’. The Academy’s Agenda and the Renaissance of Socratic Dialogue 39 Wim Nijs ‘Graeculus et Adsentator’. Philodemus’ Defence of Epicurean Friendship and Frank Speech in Roman Society 65 Chiara Militello Replying to Stoics as the Basis of True Aristotelianism. The Significance of Polemics in Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Commen- taries and Treatises 93 Part 2 BIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE Olivier Demerre Hermogenes’ ‘Life’. Stylistic Debates and Circles in Philostratus’ ‘Lives of the Sophists’ 119 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Han Baltussen Polemic, Personality and the Iamblichan Circle in Eunapius’ ‘Lives of Philosophers and Sophists’ (‘VPS’) 151 Corentin Tresnie Biography as Implicit Philosophical Polemics. Porphyry’s ‘Life of Plotinus’ and Iamblichus’ ‘Pythagorean Life’ 177 Part 3 GRAMMARIANS AND RHETORICIANS Ute Tischer Comparison and Competition. Cicero, Virgil and the Authority of the Interpreter 205 Joshua M. Smith (Mis)Reading the Poet. A Networking Strategy in Ancient Criticism 233 Bruno Marien Recommendation in Late Antique Epistolographers in the Con- text of Personal Networks. The Example of Libanius and Other Fourth-Century Letter Writers 259 Part 4 ARTS AND SCIENCES Eva Falaschi Competing (in) Art. Rivalry Among Greek Artists and its Re- ception in the Imperial Age 291 Thorsten Fögen Rival or Ally? Competition, Controversy and Polemics in Ancient Technical Discourse. Case Studies on Ethnicity and Religious Affiliation 317 Argyro Lithari Platonic Teachings and Astronomers’ Hypotheses in the Pro- emium of Proclus’ ‘Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum’. Between Opposition and Agreement 361 8 Part 5 CHRISTIAN AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN POLEMIC Irmgard Männlein-Robert Subtle Battles or: Platonic Exegesis as Polemical Strategy in Porphyry 385 Benjamin De Vos The ‘Pseudo-Clementine Homilies’ and the Art of ‘Fake News’. Deceptions and Dissimulations Aimed at the ‘Gentile’ Audience 423 Peter Gemeinhardt Polemics and Networking in Fourth-Century Trinitarian Debates. Athanasius’ Writings from his Third Exile Revisited 461 index nominvm 499 index locorvm 507 9
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