Lea Niccolai

Readers of the Living: Interpretive Mastery and Natural Thinking in Plutarch, Celsus, Origen, and Porphyry

Abstract This article examines the intersection between imperial writings on animals and post-Hellenistic debates about exegesis. It is the first study to argue that interpreters drawing on Aristotelian theories of voice and Hellenistic ideas of natural sympathy treated the meani...