ECOURI ARISTOTELICE ÎN PROTREPTICUL CĂTRE GRECI SCRIS DE CLEMENT ALEXANDRINUL
ARISTOTELIAN ECHOES IN CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA'S PROTREPTICUS

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to investigate some passages in Clement of Alexandria’s Protrepticus to the Greeks in which the Christian author drew on the GrecoRoman tradition of the philosophical protreptic. I will focus my analysis on those passages which are thought to contain Aristotelian echoes and which are occasionally used in the reconstruction of the lost Protrepticus written by the Philosopher of Stagira. Since Clement does not make any explicit reference to Aristotle’s Protrepticus, establishing correspondences between the two works, as well as demonstrating Clement’s direct dependence on the Aristotelian model still remain a source of dispute among scholars. In this paper, I will discuss the validity of such suggested parallels between the two works and I will try to provide new arguments for a direct dependence of Clement’s work on Aristotle’s Protrepticus.

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