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Literatura klasyczna w recepcji Klemensa z Aleksandrii
Classical Literature in the Reception of Clement of Alexandria

Author(s): Lesław Łesyk
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Instytut Filologii Klasycznej
Keywords: Clement of Alexandria; Christian literature; Greek literature; philosophy; Christianity; Plato; Homer; Ancient Greek; rhetoric; paideia

Summary/Abstract: Clement of Alexandria is a writer of the Early Christianity. This Article treats about usage of classical Greek literature in the Christian teaching of Clement of Alexandria with taking notice to unity between Greek philosophy and Christianity (a theory of robbery, a missionary accommodation and ‘Greek’ education of Clement) and to usage ancient Greek literature in Clement`s works (a style, quotation of Greek writers, usage of Greek grammarians` and rhetoric`s achieviements).

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 37-65
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish