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The Journal Ética e Filosofia Política (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, UFJF, Brazil – http://www.ufjf.br/eticaefilosofia) invites scholars to submit articles to its 19/2 number, to be published in December 2016.The forthcoming number will be devoted to the “Power and Limit of Language in Ancient Philosophy”, and it will be edited by Fábio Fortes (UFJF) and José C. Baracat Jr. (UFRGS).We accept articles in Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. The deadline is September 5th.Authors should submit two copies of their papers, one identified and other anonymous, to the e-mail: filosofia.antiga.ufjf@gmail.com&#160;Any questions may be addressed to the editors: Fábio Fortes: fabiosfortes@yahoo.com.br ; José C. Baracat Jr.: baracatjr@hotmail.comThe power and limit of language are themes that traverse the entirety of Greek and Roman Antiquity in an unavoidable way and within a scenery in which, despite orality gradually gives place to literacy, the strength of spoken word was never completely effaced by writing. However, it is in this conflict incited by the revolution of writing that discursive practices traditionally rooted in orality could become object of theoretical and philosophical reflection. On the one hand, the conscious use of language as an instrument of pleasure and persuasion – and, therefore, of power –, noticeable already in Homer, was extensively explored by many writers from the Ancient World. On the other, the awareness that language is not sufficient to express certain objects of thought or levels of reality – thus being limited – was a serious concern for Ancient thinkers since at least Heraclitus and Parmenides, being especially important in the Platonic tradition.Given such starting points – the power and limit of language –, we invite scholars to submit to the Journal their reflections on the interweaving of language and philosophy, from the beginnings of Greek philosophical speculation to Greek and Latin authors from Late Antiquity. In broad lines, we expect studies that fit in one of the following subtopics: - Orality and the writing of philosophy; - Continuity and discontinuity between rhetoric and philosophy. - Philosophical and religious apophaticism; - Dogmatism and skepticism in language; - Logics, philology, and grammar.