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Like many of Aristotle's lost works, Protrepticus was likely written as a Socratic dialogue, in a similar format to the works of Plato.There is good evidence that several of the nineteen works that stand at the head of Diogenes' and Hesychius' lists were dialogues; it may be inferred with high probability, though not with certainty, that the others were so too, but Stobaeus, pp. 59, 61 infra ...
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The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]
The modern distinction between the two ideas, as generally used in modern scholarship, is explained by Stanley Stowers thus: [2] In this discussion I will use protreptic in reference to hortatory literature that calls the audience to a new and different way of life, and paraenesis for advice and exhortation to continue in a certain way of life.
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Situations is the shortest piece traditionally attributed to Aristotle as part of the Corpus Aristotelicum, occupying a single two-column page (973) in Bekker's standard reference edition of Aristotle's complete works. The twelve winds, described in order in the text, are: Boreas (N) Meses (NNE) Caecias (NE) Apeliotes (E) Eurus (SE) Orthonotus ...
Protrepticus (Ancient Greek: Προτρεπτικός) may refer to: Protrepticus (Aristotle) , an exhortation to philosophy by Aristotle, which survives in fragmentary form Protrepticus , a work by the Roman writer Ennius