Philo as rhetorician: diatribe moments in the De Abrahamo

• John Dillon ^[1]
  1. [1] Trinity College Dublin

     Trinity College Dublin

     Irlanda

     
• Localización: Hermathena, ISSN 0018-0750, Nº. 200-201, 2016, págs. 95-106
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Philo of Alexandria’s treatise On the Life of Abraham provides a number of good examples of the literary genre of the diatribe. My purpose in this paper is to study the more elaborate of these, with a view to identifying their most characteristic features and exploring how they contribute to the economy of the treatise as a whole