Λόγος και φωνή
Part of : Παρνασσός ; Vol.ΝΑ, No.1, 2009, pages 173-182
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173-182
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Word and voice
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The article examines the presence of Greek language as a vehicle of philosophical thinking in Hellenistic and Roman times. Greek terminology and vocabulary became instrumental in the renewal of old and the forging of new ways of expressing abstract ideas and building coherent philosophic systems. In Greco-Roman Egypt of the first Christian centuries, the Gnostic authors of the Hermetic writings often criticized the Greek language (logos: word), opposing to its abstract formality the magical vividness of Egyptian invocations (phonè: voice). Nevertheless, they too used Greek terms to express their ideas, thus proving that Greek logos was indispensable in formulating metaphysical concepts and in incorporating them to a working system of thinking.
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