Résumé : La corruption n’est pas simplement un thème, dont la prégnance plus grande à l’époque de la guerre du Péloponnèse indiquerait un souci contemporain, antérieur et extérieur au fonctionnement des discours, elle est en outre une sorte de ferment discursif, dont le rôle dans la genèse de la tragédie, de la médecine, de la philosophie et de l’histoire en Grèce classique est significatif, voire essentiel. Pour ces quatre discours et leurs trois objets principaux — le corps, l’âme et la cité —, la corruption occupe une fonction séminale. La première partie de cette thèse, «La corruption au prisme de la tragédie et de la médecine», est dévolue au corps. La corruption y apparaît à la fois dans le méta-discours et dans le discours proprement dit, ce qui correspond à deux temps de notre analyse. Celle-ci se décline chaque fois sur un double cas de figure, soit pièces — les Trachiniennes et le Philoctète — soit problèmes médicaux — la maladie sacrée et l’avortement. Ce chapitre nous offre un premier angle sous lequel analyser la façon dont la corruption opère dans des discours en émergence, notamment par le brouillage et par le recours à la mise en spectacle. La seconde partie, consacrée à l’âme, comporte deux chapitres : le premier, «Socrate entaché : la corruption de la jeunesse», se penche sur la façon dont le philosophe peut corrompre autrui ; le second, «Le malaise d’Adimante : la corruption du naturel philosophe», sur la manière dont lui-même peut se corrompre dans une cité décrite comme malade. Il s’agit pour Platon dans les deux cas de déconstruire l’association de la philosophie et de la corruption afin d’établir fermement la discipline nouvelle. La troisième partie, «Thucydide, historien de la corruption», s’attache à dégager le rôle de la corruption dans la cité. On y voit que l’idée en est chez l’historien consubstantielle au domaine politique et plus particulièrement à la démocratie athénienne. Contre cette corruption politique, l’historiographie se constitue comme un espace dégagé des périls qui pèsent sur la cité : l’historien, comme le philosophe et le médecin, cherche à se poser comme le véritable incorruptible. Abstract: Corruption is not just a theme whose importance in the era of the Peloponnesian War indicates a contemporary anxiety, prior to and outside of the fuctioning of speech, it is also a kind of discursive ferment, whose role in the genesis of tragedy, medicine, philosophy and history in classical Greece is significant, even essential. For these four discourses and their three main objects (body, soul and city), corruption plays a seminal function. The first part of this dissertation, "La corruption au prisme de la tragédie et de la médecine", is devoted to the body. Corruption appears in both the meta-discourse and the discourse itself each of which we explore in turn. We analyse first two plays (the Trachiniae and the Philoctetes) and then two medical problems (the sacred disease and abortion or miscarriage). This chapter offers a first angle from which to analyze how corruption operates in the emerging discourses, especially through blurring categories and spectacularization. The second part, devoted to the soul, has two chapters: the first, "Socrate entaché : la corruption de la jeunesse" examines how the philosopher may corrupt others; the second "Le malaise d’Adimante : la corruption du naturel philosophe" shows how he himself can be corrupted in a city described as sick. What is at stake for Plato, in both cases, is to deconstruct the association between philosophy and corruption in order to firmly establish his new discipline. The third part, "Thucydide, historien de la corruption", seeks to identify the role of corruption in the city. It shows that, in the eyes of the historian, this idea is consubstantial with politics and especially with the Athenian democracy. Against this political corruption, historiography is constituted as an open space, free of the perils that the city is facing: the historian, like the philosopher and the physician, seeks to position himself as the true incorruptible.

Thesis (Ph. D.) - Catholic University of America, 1917. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 84-85. Also available in print.

Thèse--Faculté des lettres de Paris.

Inaug.-diss.--University Marburg. / Cover title. Vita.

The editor's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Groningen, 1938. / "Stellingen": p. [163]-[166]. "Literatuurlijst": p. [157]-58.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Classical Languages and Literatures, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passive paradigm of understanding sexual relations which was originally proposed in Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Michel Foucault's three volume History of Sexuality (1978, 1985, and 1986). In Dover and Foucault, the sexual behaviour of the classical Athenian male takes primacy, so much so that the reader of either scholar can be left with the impression that the role of the active partner was available only to adult citizen males. Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans (Book 4 of his works) depict a group of desiring female subjects who demonstrate that sexual agency, the assumption of the active role in a sexual relationship, need not be the exclusively masculine phenomenon that Dover and Foucault describe. Letters of Courtesans prove that female sexuality can be portrayed as active and therefore that women in literature can be sexual agents. Additionally, these letters demonstrate the limits of the approaches of Dover and Foucault, that sexuality need not be defined as exclusively active or exclusively passive. By approaching Letters of Courtesans from this perspective, we are able to see that ancient Greek literature includes depictions of active female sexuality that Dover and Foucault overlooked. Letters of Courtesans are therefore a way to challenge and develop the work on ancient sexuality that has followed from these two landmark studies. Because of their fictional nature and their epistolary format, Letters of Courtesans lay bare the process of Alciphron's construction of sexuality and gender. I shall therefore show that Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans are an ideal locus for a discussion of these topics. This study will establish that Letters of Courtesans ought to occupy a place of importance in any discussion of ancient ideas of sexuality and gender.

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Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passive paradigm of understanding sexual relations which was originally proposed in Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Michel Foucault's three volume History of Sexuality (1978, 1985, and 1986). In Dover and Foucault, the sexual behaviour of the classical Athenian male takes primacy, so much so that the reader of either scholar can be left with the impression that the role of the active partner was available only to adult citizen males. Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans (Book 4 of his works) depict a group of desiring female subjects who demonstrate that sexual agency, the assumption of the active role in a sexual relationship, need not be the exclusively masculine phenomenon that Dover and Foucault describe. Letters of Courtesans prove that female sexuality can be portrayed as active and therefore that women in literature can be sexual agents. Additionally, these letters demonstrate the limits of the approaches of Dover and Foucault, that sexuality need not be defined as exclusively active or exclusively passive. By approaching Letters of Courtesans from this perspective, we are able to see that ancient Greek literature includes depictions of active female sexuality that Dover and Foucault overlooked. Letters of Courtesans are therefore a way to challenge and develop the work on ancient sexuality that has followed from these two landmark studies. Because of their fictional nature and their epistolary format, Letters of Courtesans lay bare the process of Alciphron's construction of sexuality and gender. I shall therefore show that Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans are an ideal locus for a discussion of these topics. This study will establish that Letters of Courtesans ought to occupy a place of importance in any discussion of ancient ideas of sexuality and gender.