Wiener Studien Band 124/2011 Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
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Wiener Studien Band 124/2011 Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
ISSN 0084-005X
Print Edition ISSN 0084-005X Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-7186-7 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-7182-9 Online Edition
Lothar Willms
S. 55 - 93 doi:10.1553/wst124s55 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abstract: The factors of ‘place/space’ and ‘philosophical instruction’ both shape the specific points of Epictetus’ gender discourse. The place/space gives rise to a hierarchic situation of teaching exclusively young boys of the upper class, but no women, it creates a distance from home that is a test for the boys’ developing manlihood, and it relocates the philosophical ideal of masculinity in two literary quotations from the Iliad and Plato’s Phaedo. Philosophical instruction, however, is more important in shaping Epictetus’ gender discourse. Emotional behaviour is stigmatized as effeminate, which is an efficious rhetoric device to convince the young boys in the audience, but does not imply or go along with essentialistic discrimination concerning women’s rational abilities. This pragmatic use of gender stereotypes is due to the strong insistence on conviction which Epictetus shows in comparison with his teacher Musonius Rufus and corresponds to Epictetus’ caustic style of teaching which follows the Cynics’ example. Published Online: 2011/11/07 14:21:37 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x0029c4ff Rights: . INHALT.
Herwig Maehler, Griechische Chorlyrik und die Symbole der Macht
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