El emperador como exemplum: a propósito de la edición de Maria Carmen De Vita de Lettere e discorsi de Flavio Claudio Juliano
Abstract
This bibliographic note analyzes the philosophical-political testimony of the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus presented by Maria Carmen de Vita in her bilingual edition of Lettere e discorsi. The editor proposes a direct reading of the author as a princeps philosophus who is constructing himself from writing. Rhetoric, philosophy and power come together in the figure of this emperor and philosopher, whose modus scribendi turns rhetoric into a philosophical and political instrument to constitute a Hellenic community founded on paideia, where the princeps would be the mediator between the intelligible world and civic life. Either he is the offspring of Helios, legitimized to take the role of the exemplum (the interpretation proposed by the author) or a Quixote who wanted to be like the philosophers he has read in the doxographies, who dreamed himself outside the cave.
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