Vol. 16 No. 32 (2022): Ancestrals Souls 2

Volume 16, numbers 31 and 32 of the Annals of Classical Philosophy, accompanies the current programme of the OUSIA Laboratory for the investigation of Ancestral Intelligences, launched in 2022, with the support of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at UFRJ and funding from FAPERJ. This programme aims to broaden the frontiers of classical philosophy towards other creative areas of thought, in which the different expressions of ancient knowledge meet in diversity. This broadening of horizons can be seen in the issue on Mythical Women and the issues resulting from the Dionysiac Festival and the symposium on Time in Antiquity. The Orphic-Dionysian wisdom expressed in the tragedies, the knowledge of the itan narratives of the Yoruba tradition and other forms of traditional expression have brought the concept of Classical Philosophy into a critical zone. Continuing to deal with Pre-Socratic Philosophy increasingly demanded this transdisciplinary look at the poetic expressions of wisdom; and this look unfolds in the diversity of cultures.

Issue 32, which was delayed due to changes in the UFRJ Journal Portal, completes the volume centred on ancestry and cultural diversity, where millenary wisdom traditions drink from their ancient sources and establish their basic values. Michele Lanza's article discusses how the intellectual figure of the Greek philosopher is moulded on the character of Socrates throughout antiquity, from Plato to Plutarch. The article by Roberta Paulo and Gérard Grimberg provides an insight into the status of the sage in Greece prior to the delineation of the philosophical and the philosophical discourse. Furthermore, Hedgar Castro examines the origins of the discursive modes of the Greek philosophy from contrasting the political practice of oratory in Plato's Phaedrus. In each of their articles, Carlos Eduardo Rocha and Rogério Athayde take us into another territory of antiquity, tracing questions about the wisdom practices and values of Ifá in the Yoruba tradition. These questions directly involve the generational transmission of wisdom and its own rites of celebrating birth and respecting eldership. Starting with Augustine, Francisco de Oliveira takes up the question of faith and knowledge, which is present where the boundaries of religions and their respective experiences of wisdom meet.

This issue also includes two previously unpublished translations into Portuguese: the fragments of Escitin from Teos by Luan Reborêdo and Dodds' article on Menadism by Verônica de Araújo.