Adelphoi: de la espístola filosófica a la epístola religiosa. Un análisis semiodiscursivo

Abstract

In this research we aim to develop the study of epistolography from three letters of ancient Greece, namely the VII letter of Plato, Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus and the first letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians. Through these texts we try to establish the evolutive guidelines in the field of ancient epistolography given that the epistolary discourse is presented as a social practice. This perspective allow us to analyze each of these texts from a philological and semidiscursive point of view, as this discourse genre is able to be analyzed from the narrativity, to give account of the constitution of the subject in favor of the inter-subjective relationship between the actors, the linkages of their acts and passions. The representation of the external world and the internal world of the subject into the discourse allows us to account for the knowledge of the passions of that subject. In the same way the enunciation is essential, from this, the inter-subjectivity in embedded in the discourse, besides that evidences the relationship between the "1", the "you" the "us" and "you" of letters that are read for centuries by readers to whom the epistolary message was not directed.