David Hernández de la Fuente

• PhD Classics, PhD Social History
• Professor at Complutense University of Madrid

It is well studied that some Pythagorean principles lied at the foundations of the Late Antique Neoplatonic School. The main reason for that conclusion to be drawn is the two biographies of the Samian sage written by the Neoplatonic philosophers Porphyry of Tyre and Iamblichus of Chalcis. Accordingly, the archetypical image of Pythagoras became a m...

El presente volumen colectivo recoge los resultados de un proyecto de investigación acerca de la noción de “hombre divino”. Esta figura del "theios aner", como aparece en las fuentes griegas antiguas, permite indagar en las ideas acerca de la divinidad o la santidad de personajes que destacaron por sus habilidades en el campo de las artes, las letr...

This work considers the current crisis in the Western world, caused by the pandemic, war, energy supply issues, and other related disturbances, and its potential impact on current educational models, which are being reformed in various countries and attempts to relate it with historical precedents from classical antiquity that were a reaction to cr...

The influence of Neoplatonic themes and leitmotivs can be traced in Greek literature during the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, especially in hexametric poetry where ancient Homeric models were updated and enriched with theological and philosophical nuances. This article examines the origin of Neoplatonic Aesthetics and Poetics in the context of...

This pioneering volume provides the first comparative overview of the interface between Neoplatonism and poetry in the greater Mediterranean, from Late Antiquity to the present day. The introductory chapter presents the thought of Plotinus (d. 270), the founder of Neoplatonism, as rooted in both Greek and Oriental sources and explains his key princ...

This book is an enquiry into memory in the Western world. Specifically, memory is the framework of culture, because it links the present to the past - or tradition - and projects it into the future. For this reason, any work focusing on memory involves a double challenge: (1) to reveal the origin of concepts and (2) to glimpse the course of thought...

La presente contribución pretende, en primer lugar, trazar, de manera paralela, un breve panorama histórico-cultural comparado sobrede las versiones de la historia de Calila y Dimna en la literatura griega y española, de una manera paralela, a fin de ofrecer un estado de la cuestión sobre las vías paralelas pero diferenciadas por las que la fábula...

Reseña de M.ª Amparo Mateo Donet, La ejecución de los mártires cristianos en el Imperio Romano. Publicaciones del CEPOAT, 1; Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 2016.

Este articulo trata de un leitmotiv literario de la tradicion clasica grecolatina en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges, con especial enfasis en su poesia. El tema de las puertas de los suenos y del alma que, despues de haber disuelto sus lazos con el cuerpo o mientras este duerme, vuela libremente y vuelve despues con un conocimiento profetico, aparece...

This contribution aims to briefly review the literature and state of the art regarding the Myth of Plato’s Statesman and to propose at first a new reading of such myth in light of the ancient Greek religious tradition and, specifically, of the Leitmotiv of the Hesiodic Myth of the Ages of Man. Secondly, we will put forward a comparison of this myth...

This contribution aims to briefly review the literature and state of the art regarding Plato's Myth of the Statesman and to propose, first, a new reading of this myth in the light of the ancient Greek religious tradition and, specifically, of the Leitmotiv of the Hesiodic Myth of the Ages of Man. Second, we will present a comparison of this myth an...

In this paper we put forward an approach to the philosophical use of the Greek god Dionysus in Plato’s work, with particular reference to the platonic pedagogical- political thought in the Republic and, above all, in the Laws. Previous studies that have addressed this issue, including the latest two dealing with the Laws and the philosophical aspec...

Resumen: En esta contribución pretendemos mostrar un estudio de caso sobre la interacción entre derecho y religión en la Grecia antigua. Se propone un estudio del papel de las purificaciones religiosas (katharmoi) en la integración del individuo en la comunidad política y en la cohesión del colectivo. A modo de ejemplo, se comparan en este artículo...

This contribution puts forward an interpretation of the relation between the Dionysiac religion and the political and ethical project outlined by Plato in his last dialogue, the "Laws". Firstly, the latest literature about the question of religion in the "Laws" is briefly reviewed, dealing with some recent contributions and pointing out the lack of...

During the 5th and 4th centuries BC, Egypt was a kind of conceptual mirror for the Greeks whenever they should speak of history, science or religion, and this is especially evident regarding the debate about the best form of government. The government of sages or priests, two of the utopian ideas most firmly rooted in Greek thought, finds a mythica...

Resumen: Entre todas las facetas del filósofo griego Pitágoras de Samos, algunas de ellas aparentemente contradictorias, hay un cierto número de fuentes antiguas que lo acreditan como una gran autoridad en artes proféticas. Las actividades políticas y la influencia de su escuela en la Magna Grecia fueron también a menudo destacadas en muchos aspect...

The rhetorical skill of the biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in his Parallel Lives is made manifest by certain linguistic usages with which he characterizes his protagonists. Plutarch describes his literary technique as a sort of impressionist composition where some details of each character, signs or σημεία of his soul, are highlighted, defining e...

The rhetorical skill of the biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in his Parallel Lives is made manifest by certain linguistic usages with which he characterizes his protagonists. Plutarch describes his literary technique as a sort of impressionist composition where some details of each character, signs or σημεία of his soul, are highlighted, defining e...

This paper aims to summarize the most widely accepted concepts and views on sec-tarianism and fundamentalism in sociology of religion and put them together with those stemming from history of religions, both ancient and modern. The main objective of these interdisciplinary considerations is to allow new socio-historical perspectives in order to dea...

Esta contribución pretende proporcionar un panorama y estado de la cuestión acerca de la Paráfrasis al Evangelio de San Juan de Nono de Panópolis (s.V), y ofrecer algunas reflexiones metodológicas en torno al contexto histórico-cultural y filológico de este poema épico tardoantiguo en el marco del trabajo de traducción en curso que se está desarrol...

This paper focuses on the religious background of lawgiving and its mythical models in books I-IV of the Laws. This latest of Plato's Works deals with the main tasks of a legislator in the ideal political community. In this dialogue, the lawgiver (nomothetes) is the heir of a long Greek tradition with mythical and historical forerunners (Solon, Lyc...

Las pr?cticas adivinatorias han desempe?ado un importante papel en diversas culturas del mundo antiguo, desde Egipto y Mesopotamia hasta el final del paganismo cl?sico, cuando fueron paulatinamente sustituidas por el recurso a la nueva legitimaci?n religiosa del poder promovida por el Cristianismo. Este trabajo, que presenta una introducci?n centra...

Two of the funerary orations of Hyrtakenos (XIVth century) reveal his knowledge of Nonnus' Dionysiaca; these join other testimonies to the popularity of Nonnus in the late Byzantine period and the Renaissance.

RESUMEN: El presente artículo trata los elementos órficos que pueden encontrarse en las Dionisíacas de Nono, un poema épico griego de época imperial (s.V). En su canto sexto podemos leer una versión del nacimiento y muerte de Dioniso Zagreo, un mito fundamental para la religión mistérica griega, tanto la órfica como la dionisíaca. Este artículo ana...

the folowing essay deals with the different aproach to the myth of panteius and the bacchae in two authors,euripides,a clasical tragedy writer,and nannus of panopolis, a late greek-egypctian epic poet. the story of pantheus in nonnus dionysiaca is based upon euripides bacchae , but there are some outstanding variations. the iconography of this myth...

The author examines the unusual epic poem by Nonnus from Panopolis. He first informs about Nonnus' live , at the Vth century a.C. Then he analyses metrics, subjects and structure of the poem. The author concludes that there is a kind of Dionysos manía in all late epic poets. Nonnus, himself underlines Dionisos character from the very beginning of h...

El presente documento de trabajo contiene la edición y traducción al castellano, en presentación bilingüe, de la obra poética completa del poeta griego Nicos Cavadías (1910-1975), que se compone de los libros "Marabú", "Niebla", "Través" y "Cuentos para Filipo". The following working paper presents the edition and Spanish translation of the complet...

Esta contribución versa sobre la preocupación de Nietzsche por el concepto y método de la filología clásica y la renovación que propone a lo largo de su trayectoria académica como filólogo y filósofo. Tras unas consideraciones generales sobre el origendel concepto y método de filología y su reinvención en las «ciencias de la Antigüedad» a partir de...

El presente artículo trata los elementos órficos que pueden encontrarse en las Dionisíacas de Nono, un poema épico griego de época imperial (s.V). En su canto sexto podemos leer una versión del nacimiento y muerte de Dioniso Zagreo, un mito fundamental para la religión mistérica griega, tanto la órfica como la dionisíaca. Este artículo analiza el m...

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