Laelius de amicitia

Cicero (MÖ 106 – MÖ 43): Romalı büyük devlet adamı, hatip ve düşünür. Gençliğinde felsefe ve hukuk eğitimi aldı. Hitabet sanatındaki ustalığıyla consul’lüğe dek yükseldi. Roma’yı birey, geleneksel toplum düzeni ve devlet üçgeninde ele alan konuşmaları, felsefi ve teknik eserleriyle her çağın insanını etkilemeyi başarmıştır.

Cicero, Platon’tan esinlenerek diyalog biçiminde yazdığı Dostluk Üzerine’de, Quintus Mucius Scaevola, Gaius Fannius ve bu ikisinin kayınpederi Gaius Laelius’u konuşturur. Başkonuşmacı Gaius Laelius, Scipio ile dostluğundan söz eder ve dostluğun mahiyeti, nasıl insanlara bahşedildiği, faydaları, sınırları hakkında bilgece yanıtlar ve öğütler verir.

C. Cengiz Çevik (1983): İ.Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi Latin Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünden mezun oldu. Antik Roma’nın klasik Latincesi, Roma kültürü ve tarihi konularında çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Horatius, Seneca, Copernicus, Sextus Empiricus, Martin Luther ve Francis Bacon’ın eserlerini çevirdi. Cicero’nun Yükümlülükler Üzerine, Yasalar Üzerine ve Yaşlı Cato veya Yaşlılık Üzerine isimli eserlerini de Türkçeye kazandırdı. Cicero çevirileri Hasan Âli Yücel Klasikler Dizisi’nde yayımlandı.

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The article studies the reception of Cicero's Laelius in Isidore of Seville's sententiae 3, 28-32, that offers the only extant theoretical conceptualization of amicitia as a form of interpersonal relation during the 6th and 7th centuries AD. Over the period, caritas was regularly used to describe social relations. Accordingly, the study s key question is: how was classical concept of amicitia reintegrated into the Christian discourse of 7th century Roman-Barbarian Spain? The article suggests that the question of true unity in friendship was central for Isidore:
he reconsiders patristic model of grounding amicitia in caritas that was interpreted as both the principle of right behaviour towards the neighbour and a ground of general political and religious unity of gens Gothorum. Thus, Isidore attempts to correlate the personal relations of amicitia with the principle of caritas that rules and unites the society. This suggestion helps to explain why Isidore pays attention to the ideal of friendship represented in Cicero s Laelius. In the final analysis, the study tries to explain why Isidore builds the chapters on friendship from quotations and allusions on Laelius, suggesting that by these means Isidore's text according to the principles of writing of Late Antiquity, established a set of references between relevant problems of unity and relations in 7th century Visigothic Spain and the authoritative text of the tradition.

The latest research on the Catalan chivalric novel Curial e Güelfa has highlighted unanimously the literary quality of the work and the richness of the literary culture of its author, in particular in relation to the classical and Italian writers. Among the Italians, many scholars have stressed the crucial role of Boccaccio, and in particular of the Decameron, as a literary model and as an intermediary in the classical tradition, for the anonymous Catalan author. In this work we offer a view of the presence of the novella X.8 in the Catalan text, following both narratives, and observing the fitting in the new narrative context that carries out the anonymous author of Curial. Besides, this allows us to appreciate the relationship of the chivalric novel and the Catalan translation of the Decameron of 1429.

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Obituary: ROBERT GLEN 'PONCHO' GUMBS , June 23, 1977 - August 28, 2005 died suddenly in El Paso, TX; leaving behind two daughters, family and friends.
Funeral services will be held on Wed., Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1500 So. Hanley Rd. Burial at J. B. National Cemetery.

I attended college in Jefferson City, Missouri, with Poncho in 1997 and 1998. He and I were in the same freshman clique - basically athletes with street smarts who would all end up being recruited as sophomores into the BGLO's on campus. The Kappas kidnapped him and a couple other buddies from our clique, Mike and Big James, for initiation around the same time that the Alphas kidnapped Chad and me.

Poncho was a very talented athlete in several sports - basketball, football, boxing, wrestling - to name a few. He had a great sense of humor and his personality was kind and humble, and also confident. He never was a chatty person nor was he open to spreading gossip or even hearing it. He earned our trust and respect from day one because he was on some r.n.s.

He was a gentleman - very respectful toward the ladies, despite their constant propositions, their serenades outside of his dorm room, two tons of fan mail, and even a few stalkers. In fact, his modesty multiplied his status as a heartthrob, whereas it was already a consensus with the girls that "he looked like Genuwine" and therefore could have had a turn with as many as he pleased. 

He was not bashful about his Mexican heritage, representing the Latino culture he picked up -- from his daddy's side, if i'm not mistaken. His cultural exchanges, though distinctive in ways, were seamless with the black culture that he also identified with. 

In sum, Poncho was an outstanding individual with great potential. Kudos to his parents and blessings to his entire family. -bk