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Shakespeare’s Bookish Rulers: Philosophy and Nature Poetry in the Henry VI Trilogy and The Tempest
Religions, 2023 Shakespeare’s early Henry VI trilogy and late The Tempest both feature reclusive, bookish rulers who are deposed because their rivals perceive an opportunity in the rulers’ trustingness and lack of interest in political affairs.
Aviva Farkas
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2020 Theurgy was a system of magical practices in the late Roman Empire. It was applied Neoplatonism. The theurgists aimed to enable human bodies to assume divine attributes, that is, to become deities.
Eric Steinhart
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Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient World
Journal of Archaeology, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 In this historical review, the opinions of Ancient Greece philosophers, astronomers, and poets such as Thales Milesian, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Archimedes, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Iamblichus, Plutarch, Homer, and Aratus about the planet position calculations and about the possibility of predictions of natural phenomena are analyzed ...
A. N. Safronov, I. Liritzis
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The symbolic model for algebra : functions and mechanisms [PDF]
, 2010 The symbolic mode of reasoning in algebra, as it emerged during the sixteenth century, can be considered as a form of model-based reasoning. In this paper we will discuss the functions and mechanisms of this model and show how the model relates to its ...
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La figura del filosofo nel IV secolo d.C.
Aitia, 2015 Building on Julian the Emperor’s Letter to Themistius, the present contribution seeks to interpret the debate between Julian and Themistius on the relation between philosophy and kingship within the philosophical context of the 4th century AD.
Riccardo Chiaradonna
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Sign Systems Studies, 2020 Despite the common knowledge that there is something “Pythagorean” about Charles Peirce’s phenomenology and classification of signs there is a manifest lack of inquiries into the matter. Perhaps there is too little to go on, as Pythagoras himself did not
Rasmus Rebane
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Les pythagoriciens de Poseidonia : reconstitution d’un contexte
Kentron, 2022 The oldest members of the Pythagorean communities in Southern Italy are, in general, poorly known. Nevertheless, it is possible to draw a portrait of the members of the hetairia in some cities of Magna Graecia.
Corentin Voisin
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Homer as the first theologian: an allegory and symbol in Porphyry’s treatise ‘’On the сave of the nymphs’’ [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020 This article explores the hermeneutical principles that Porphyry of Tyre used for interpreting the description of the cave of the nymphs in the Odyssey.
Roman Soloviev
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Iamblichus’ Investiture of Pythagoras [PDF]
Méthexis, 2018 The paper draws a parallel between Iamblichus’ presentation of Pythagoras in the first lines of On the Pythagorean Way of Life, and Aristotle’s presentation of Thales in Metaphysics A. Although the texts present two different accounts of the origins of philosophy, they nevertheless feature strong parallels such as the Greek formulation used to invest ...
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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Legacy of Iamblichus
Patristica et MediaevaliaNeoplatonism takes a significant turn when Iamblichus integrates a mystical perspective based on the Chaldean Oracles into his doctrine. This compilation of fragments, which can be traced back to Babylonian Zoroastrianism, emerged in Hellenistic ...
Gustavo Riesgo
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