Houses, patrimony, civilization. Nomos versus physis in Greek Thought

Authors

Maria de Fátima Silva
University of Coimbra, FLUC
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-8386
Maria da Graça de Moraes Augusto
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Maria do Céu Fialho
University of Coimbra, FLUC
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2115-9638
Keywords: Nomos, physis, sophists, literature, philosophy, reception studies

Synopsis

This study about two concepts wants to recuperate, under a literary and philosophic perspective, the famous antithesis originated in Classical Athens, and transfered through the occidental cultures along the centuries. Therefore, retaking the arguments of past discussions, nómos versus phýsis are considered in their process of transmission and reception.

Author Biographies

Maria de Fátima Silva, University of Coimbra, FLUC

Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva is a full professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the same university. Her research interests are in the translation and study of Greek theatre, specifically of Aristophanes and Menander, Aeschylus, and Euripides; Greek historiography, especially Herodotus; and the study of the presence of classical themes in Portuguese dramaturgical texts. She has often collaborated as both a teacher and a visiting lecturer at various foreign universities, namely in Spain, France, Greece, and Brazil. The following publications are of particular interest: Ensaios sobre Eurípides [“Essays on Euripides”], Lisbon, 2005; Ésquilo, o primeiro dramaturgo europeu [“Aeschylus, the first European playwright”], Coimbra, 2005; Aristófanes. Comédias I [“Aristophanes: Comedies I”] (coordination and collaboration), Lisbon 2006; Furor. Ensaios sobre a obra dramática de Hélia Correia [“Furor: Essays on Hélia Correia’s dramatic work”] (coordination and collaboration), Coimbra, 2006; Ensaios sobre Aristófanes [“Essays on Aristophanes”], Lisbon, 2007; Menandro. Obra completa [“Menander: Complete Works”], Lisbon, 2007; Aristófanes. Comédias II [“Aristophanes: Comedies II”], Lisbon, 2010.

Maria da Graça de Moraes Augusto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Maria das Graças de Moraes Augusto is currently Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ) and at its Graduate Program in Logic and Metaphysics, in which he coordinates PRAGMA - Ancient Philosophy Studies Program, a research group registered in the Directory of Research Groups of CNPq, being the editor responsible for Kléos - Revista de Filosofia Antiga, an annual publication linked to PRAGMA. He is a founding member of SBEC - Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, of which he was President from 1993-1995, Member of its Editorial Board, from 1989 to 2001, and Secretary of its journal, Classica, from 1991-1993. He has experience in the area of Philosophy, with emphasis on the History of Philosophy, acting mainly in the following themes: Ancient Philosophy; Metaphysics and Political Philosophy in Ancient Thought; Plato and the Platonic Inheritance; Rhetoric, Philosophy and Knowledge in Greek Thought; Reception and tradition of the Greek classics in Brazil.

Maria do Céu Fialho, University of Coimbra, FLUC

A full professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho’s research interests focus on literary studies, languages, and Classical literatures and their reception. In these fields she has published several pieces, of which the following bear particular note: Coimbra na obra de Vergílio Ferreira [“Coimbra in the work of Vergílio Ferreira”], Boletim de Estudos Clássicos. Coimbra. 41 (2004) 63-70; Mito, narrativa e memória [“Myth, narrative, and memoir”] in Que fazer com este património? in memory of Victor Jabouille. Lisbon, 2004; Introduction and Translation of Rei Édipo, Traquínias, Electra, Édipo em Colono [“Oedipus Rex, Tarquinii, Electra, Oedipus in Colonus”] in: M. H. Rocha Pereira, J. R. Ferreira, M. C. Fialho, Sófocles. Tragédias [“Sophocles: Tragedies”], introd. trad., Coimbra Capital da Cultura, 2003; Sob o olhar de Medeia de Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão” in Medea: versiones de um mito desde Grecia hasta hoy “From the perspective of Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão’s Medea” in Medea: versiones de un mito desde Grecia hasta hoy. Granada, 2003:1. P. 1125-1135; Cidadania e celebração na Grécia Antiga [“Citizenship and Celebration in Ancient Greece”] in Europa em mutação. Cidadania. Identidades. Diversidade cultural, edited by M. M. Tavares Ribeiro. Coimbra, 2003, P. 13-30; Sófocles, Rei Édipo [“Sophocles, Oedipus Rex”]”, introd. translation, Madrid-Conímbriga, 2003.

Casas, património, civilização
Published
November 15, 2019

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978-989-26-1839-5
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10.14195/978-989-26-1839-5

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