Did Fully Fledged humanitas Exist before the Ciceronian Age?

IF 0.4 3区历史学 0 CLASSICS

MNEMOSYNE Pub Date : 2023-11-25 DOI:10.1163/1568525x-bja10197

Simon Mollea

{"title":"Did Fully Fledged humanitas Exist before the Ciceronian Age?","authors":"Simon Mollea","doi":"10.1163/1568525x-bja10197","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the relationship between the noun humanitas and the adjective humanus. In particular, it argues that literary evidence suggests that the comparative and the superlative of humanus are far more suitable than its positive grade to render the Greek ideas of παιδεία and/or φιλανθρωπία which are usually subsumed in the word humanitas. One of the main consequences of this is therefore that it might be hazardous to speak about the humanitas of authors who wrote before the comparative and the superlative of humanus, if not the word humanitas itself, were first attested. Crucial to this discussion are passages by Aulus Gellius, Terence, Cicero, Valerius Maximus and Ammianus, as well as some occurrences of the expressions studia humanitatis and studia humaniora we find in some Renaissance Humanists.","PeriodicalId":46134,"journal":{"name":"MNEMOSYNE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MNEMOSYNE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10197","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

This article investigates the relationship between the noun humanitas and the adjective humanus. In particular, it argues that literary evidence suggests that the comparative and the superlative of humanus are far more suitable than its positive grade to render the Greek ideas of παιδεία and/or φιλανθρωπία which are usually subsumed in the word humanitas. One of the main consequences of this is therefore that it might be hazardous to speak about the humanitas of authors who wrote before the comparative and the superlative of humanus, if not the word humanitas itself, were first attested. Crucial to this discussion are passages by Aulus Gellius, Terence, Cicero, Valerius Maximus and Ammianus, as well as some occurrences of the expressions studia humanitatis and studia humaniora we find in some Renaissance Humanists.

查看原文本刊更多论文

在西塞罗时代之前，完全成熟的人道主义存在吗?

本文探讨了名词humanitas与形容词humanus的关系。特别是，文学证据表明，humanus的比较级和最高级远比它的正级更适合于表达通常包含在humanitas一词中的希腊词παιδε末路α和/或φιλανθρωπ末路α。这样做的一个主要后果是，在人类这个词的比较级和最高级被证实之前谈论作者的人道主义可能是危险的，如果不是人道主义这个词本身的话。对这个讨论至关重要的是奥勒斯·盖略斯，特伦斯，西塞罗，瓦莱里乌斯·马克西姆斯和阿米安努斯的文章，以及我们在一些文艺复兴时期的人文主义者身上发现的一些表达“人文主义研究”和“人文主义研究”的出现。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

MNEMOSYNE CLASSICS-

CiteScore

0.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Since its first appearance as a journal of textual criticism in 1852, Mnemosyne has secured a position as one of the leading journals in its field worldwide. Its reputation is built on the Dutch academic tradition, famous for its rigour and thoroughness. It attracts contributions from all over the world, with the result that Mnemosyne is distinctive for a combination of scholarly approaches from both sides of the Atlantic and the Equator. Its presence in libraries around the globe is a sign of its continued reputation as an invaluable resource for scholarship in Classical studies.