Sophia Xenophontos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5717865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Xenophontos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Xenophontos |
| SIGNATURE | XENOPHONTOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5766-7565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Animal Agency and Plutarch’s Elephants
Drawing its inspiration from the burgeoning field of multidisciplinary enquiry known as animal studies, this paper looks at elephants in Plutarch for the first time from a zoocentric point of view, i.e. as deliberate, subjective and embodied agents acting in ways that suggest a degree of autonomy and that contributed to the shaping of human history. The main argument falls into three parts. First, it is shown that Plutarch’s use of the war elepha…
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view
This article looks at Byzantine dogs for the first time from the animal's point of view, i.e. not for what our textual sources tell us about their contribution to Byzantine human history, society, and culture, but for what they may enable us to trace regarding the dogs' own sensory and emotional experience, reactions and dispositions, individuality and agency. Methodologically this is made possible by using methods and insights from Animal Studie…
Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until no…
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies fr…
Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius
ПЕРЕВОДЫ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ ВОЕННОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО И
The reception of Plutarch in George Pisides’ panegyrical poems
This article examines Plutarch's reception in George Pisides’ poetry. The first section argues in favour of Pisides’ familiarity with Plutarch's writings, mainly in view of verbatim quotations and other thematic connections or allusions. The second section explores Pisides’ more creative use of Plutarch by discussing his direct addresses to the Chearonean philosopher and comparing them with Pisides’ similar apostrophes to Homer and Demosthenes in…
Other psychotherapies
This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled 'Other Psychotherapies': Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and point…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume's overarching aims is to add to our understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of Greek medical literature in the light of interesti…
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view
This article looks at Byzantine dogs for the first time from the animal's point of view, i.e. not for what our textual sources tell us about their contribution to Byzantine human history, society, and culture, but for what they may enable us to trace regarding the dogs' own sensory and emotional experience, reactions and dispositions, individuality and agency. Methodologically this is made possible by using methods and insights from Animal Studie…
Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until no…
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume's overarching aims is to add to our understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of Greek medical literature in the light of interesti…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch
Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius
ПЕРЕВОДЫ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ ВОЕННОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО И
The reception of Plutarch in George Pisides’ panegyrical poems
This article examines Plutarch's reception in George Pisides’ poetry. The first section argues in favour of Pisides’ familiarity with Plutarch's writings, mainly in view of verbatim quotations and other thematic connections or allusions. The second section explores Pisides’ more creative use of Plutarch by discussing his direct addresses to the Chearonean philosopher and comparing them with Pisides’ similar apostrophes to Homer and Demosthenes in…
Other psychotherapies
This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled 'Other Psychotherapies': Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and point…
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies fr…
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹
Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until no…
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view
This article looks at Byzantine dogs for the first time from the animal's point of view, i.e. not for what our textual sources tell us about their contribution to Byzantine human history, society, and culture, but for what they may enable us to trace regarding the dogs' own sensory and emotional experience, reactions and dispositions, individuality and agency. Methodologically this is made possible by using methods and insights from Animal Studie…
Animal Agency and Plutarch’s Elephants
Drawing its inspiration from the burgeoning field of multidisciplinary enquiry known as animal studies, this paper looks at elephants in Plutarch for the first time from a zoocentric point of view, i.e. as deliberate, subjective and embodied agents acting in ways that suggest a degree of autonomy and that contributed to the shaping of human history. The main argument falls into three parts. First, it is shown that Plutarch’s use of the war elepha…
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