"Un bel morir tutta la vita onora…" o no: formes de morir dels intel·lectuals de la Grècia antiga en la tradició biogràfica

Sergi Grau Guijarro

doi:10.5565/rev/studiaaurea.662

"Un bel morir tutta la vita onora..." or not: Ancient Greek intellectuals’ ways of dying in the biograhical tradition

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Sergi Grau Guijarro Universitat de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6599-0752

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Abstract

Scenes of the last moments of a life, often accompanied by juicy anecdotes and memorable phrases, have not been absent from biographies of intellectuals ―if I may be so anachronistic―since ancient Greece. However, the ways in which these characters die present little variety, with fairly well-defined features, plausibly based on the exercises of the schools of rhetoric, and which, moreover, are openly symbolic: what determines the form of death and its social value, for better or worse, is the life the intellectual has led, the literary genre he has mainly cultivated or the type of doctrines he has professed.

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Ancient Greek biography, Diogenes Laertius, narrative topics, cultural operators in ancient Greece

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