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Cleitophon the Charlatan
‘Ἐγὼ ταῦτα ἂν εἰδείην,’ ἔφη, ‘τοσαύτας ὕβρεις ἐξ Ἔρωτος παθών.’
‘I should know – having suffered such outrages from Eros!’ (1,2,1)¹
These are the very first words Cleitophon says, and, in them, he makes a claim to knowledge. If one is to assess whether, how, and to what extent Cleitophon is a charlatan, namely one who claims knowledge or expertise that he does not have, this utterance provides an obvious starting point: some ways of understanding it and its implications will be the focus of the second half of this paper. In the first, I will follow another line of
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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul
Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
Repath reviews The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel edited by (T.) Whitmarsh.
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