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Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age
2023Abstract This chapter seeks to elucidate the nature of “Italic” philosophy as a correlate to Pythagorean philosophy in the Hellenistic era. It starts from a claim made in Cicero’s On Old Age (77–78), in which Cato the Elder refers to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans as “practically our own countrymen,” who were once called “Italian ...
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Contemplative withdrawal in the Hellenistic age
Philosophical Studies, 2007I reject the traditional picture of philosophical withdrawal in the Hellenistic Age by showing how both Epicureans and Stoics oppose, in different ways, the Platonic and Aristotelian assumption that contemplative activity is the greatest good for a human being.
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[Medicine in the Hellenistic age].
Medicina nei secoli, 2011The article offers a review of the main literature about the supposed existence of a 'scientific revolution' in medicine during the Hellenistic age, to conclude that, if in other scientific disciplines a strong changement of cultural patterns certainly occurred, Hellenistic medicine was not able to complete a real 'revolutionary process', abandoning ...
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Laconism in the Hellenistic Age
1991Abstract The great figures of the fourth century continued to a remarkable extent to dominate Greek intellectual history, whether in rhetoric, historiography, or political theory. One proof of this is the astonishing persistence of interest in Sparta; for the place itself, deprived of territory by Philip and defeated again under ...
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Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age
2008The Hellenistic world, ushered into existance by Alexander the Great, took in a vast region, stretching from Iraq in the east to Sicily in the west. Within this area, society was multicultural but the dominant culture was Greek, developed from the culture of classical Greece, and carrying on the legacy of classical Greece in the visual arts, literature,
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