https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/issue/feedRevista Archai2025-04-29T21:33:21+01:00Gabriele Cornellicornelli@unb.brOpen Journal Systems<p><em>Archai: The Origins of Western Thought</em> is published by Archai: The Origins of Western Thought UNESCO Chair. It is published in Brazil (University of Brasília/Annablume) and in Portugal (Coimbra University Press, IUC) in print and with free online access to the electronic version. All manuscripts will undergo <em>blind-review</em> by peers. It is indexed by <em>Web of Science (Clarivate)</em>,<em> Scopus (Elsevier), SciELO, L’Année Philologique</em>,<em> Philosopher‘s Index</em>,<em> <a href="https://philpapers.org/pub/89414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phil Papers </a>, European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences </em>(ERIH Plus)<em>, </em>DOAJ<em>, Phil Brasil</em>,<em> Latindex</em>,<em> Cengage Learning</em>,<em> Google Schoolar</em>,<em> BASE</em>,<em> Diadorim</em>,<em> PKP Index and </em>in the<em> Portal de Periódicos - </em>CAPES, Brazil. <em>Archai</em> is classified as A2, the second best grade of its field (Philosophy) in the latest Qualis CAPES evaluation<em>. </em>Follow the <em>Archai </em>journal on <a title="https://www.facebook.com/revistarchai/?ref=ts&fref=ts" href="https://www.facebook.com/revistarchai/?ref=ts&fref=ts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>.</p>https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/article/view/13730The tyrant that lives within us in light of Republic VIII and IX2024-03-06T11:56:08+00:00Hedgar Lopeshedgarrrr@gmail.comMaria Aparecida Paiva Montenegromariamontenegro@ufc.br<p>Hereby we intend to examine the way by which tyranny and the tyrant are presented in <em>Republic</em>, a Platonic dialogue around which we will circumscribe the present study. Our interest emerges from the resurgence, in the 21st century, of democratically elected regimes that, however, flirt with authoritarianism. Socrates’ thesis, presented in <em>Republic</em> VIII (562b-563e), according to which tyranny arises from within democracy, highlights the contradictions inherent in this government regime since its beginnings, helping us to rethink it today. For the purposes of this study we follow the emergence of the issue of tyranny from the first book of the dialogue, until we reach the proper examination of this regime in books VIII and IX, up to which we are faced with the surprising argument that inside each one of us inhabits a sleeping tyrant (<em>Rep</em>.IX, 576b4-6). The city-soul analogy proposed in <em>Republic</em> II, as well as the composite soul thesis in <em>Republic</em> IV work as guiding conceptions of our investigation.</p>2025-06-09T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 Hedgar Lopes, Maria Aparecida Paiva Montenegrohttps://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/article/view/15981Homology, Collective and Cultural Memory: Augustus’ Portraiture and Augustan Poetry2025-04-06T15:36:53+01:00Paulo Martinspaulomar@usp.br<p>This paper aims to establish a homology between two forms of art: the portraits of Octavian Augustus and Augustan poetry, particularly the works of Horace, Ovid, Propertius, and Virgil. The theoretical frameworks of Nora (1989), Assmann (1995 and 2011), Halbwachs (1968), and Galinsky (2014-2016) are mobilized to support the argument that both artistic expressions can be interpreted as vehicles of collective memory and cultural memory, serving the perpetuation of power and art.</p>2025-06-09T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Martinshttps://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/article/view/14098Soul as Explanatory Cause of Life in Aristotle: Scientific Knowledge simpliciter (ἁπλῶς) through Coextensive Universal Demonstrations and Context Restriction as a Solution to a Core-Dependent Homonymy from DA II.1-42024-03-07T17:41:58+00:00Ahmad Suhail Farhatahmadsufar22@gmail.com<div><span lang="EN-US">The main purpose of this paper is to show, based on Aristotle’s theory of scientific demonstration, how soul plays the role of explanatory cause of life in <em>De Anima </em>(<em>DA</em>) II.1-4. Firstly, I evaluate how, in <em>APo </em>I.2 and II.16, Aristotle requires that universal demonstrations must satisfy a coextensional criterion between a given <em>explanandum </em>(A-term) and its most appropriate <em>explanans </em>(B-term), and that this criterion does not entail a causal symmetry between both those terms. I argue, following Angioni (2014a) and Zuppolini (2018), that, whenever one is before apparent ‘multiple causes’ scenario cases, in which there seems to be more than one possible cause to the same <em>explanandum</em>, one shall still find a unified and fully appropriate explanation of that <em>explanandum</em>. In the second part of this paper, I examine an example from <em>DA </em>II.1-4 in light of <em>APo </em>II.16-17. I argue that soul might be pointed out as the explanatory principle (B) that explains why life (A) belongs to a living body (C). In addition to that, I argue that, although there is a core-dependent homonymy taking place between plants (γ<sub>1</sub>), animals (γ<sub>2</sub>) and the nutritive capacity (α<sub>1</sub>), the nutritive soul (β<sub>1</sub>) plays the role of an incidental factor (συμβεβηκός) in the context of a scientific demonstration that has by <em>explananda </em>whatsoever attributes (α<sub>n</sub>) that belong to animals (γ<sub>2</sub>) <em>qua </em>living beings endowed with a perceptive soul (β<sub>1</sub>) that explains why attributes (α<sub>n</sub>) belong to them. </span></div>2025-06-09T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 Ahmad Suhail Farhathttps://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/article/view/16083Review of CONTE, Bruno Loureiro. A doxa no poema de Parmênides. Uma investigação a partir dos testemunhos antigos. São Paulo: Loyola, 2023, 274pp., ISBN 97865550425972025-04-29T21:23:06+01:00Giovanni Casertanogcasertano41@gmail.com<p>Review of CONTE, Bruno Loureiro. A doxa no poema de Parmênides. Uma investigação a partir dos testemunhos antigos. São Paulo: Loyola, 2023, 274pp., ISBN 9786555042597</p>2025-04-29T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 Giovanni Casertanohttps://impactum-journals.uc.pt/archai/article/view/14215Lessons of love in Achilles Tatius: commentary, translation and notes by Leucippe and Clitophon I.7-152024-10-17T19:34:16+01:00Emerson Cerdasemerson.cerdas@unesp.br<p>We presente the trnaslation of a specific passage from the novel Leucippe and Clitophon, by Achilles Tatius: the scene in which the main character goes to meet his cousin Clinias and receives from him valuable teachings on seduction. This passage draws our attention because it dialogues with Roman erotic elegy, especially Ovid's <em>Ars Amatoria</em>, and because of its concise, unitary structure, which resonates like a short story within the novel. We have sought to recreate in our translation aesthetic and literary elements that resonate with these elements, especially the dynamism of the narrative, without losing the lyrical - or elegiac - nuances of the text.</p>2025-06-09T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 Emerson Cerdas