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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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Peirce Chase’ing Pythagoras

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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Reconstructing late antique psychology: reversion, conversion and introversion of the soul [PDF]

, 2016
The religious, theological and philosophical discourse in Late Antiquity concerning the human soul, the Greek psuchē, reveals a sophisticated and complex psychological language that was aimed at conceptualizing and articulating the act of conversion. The
Rotman, Youval
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Iamblichus on the Soul [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2012
Built on two previous studies, dedicated, respectively, to Iamblichus of Chalcis’ (c. 240 – 325) Letters and his vision of the afterlife (ΣΧΟΛΗ 4.1 (2010) 166–193 and ΣΧΟΛΗ 4.2 (2010) 239–245), the author now turns to the De anima of the Syrian ...
Eugene Afonasin
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Eternity and Print How Medieval Ideas of Time Influenced the Development of Mechanical Reproduction of Texts and Images [PDF]

, 2020
The methods of intellectual history have not yet been applied to studying the invention of technology for printing texts and images ca. 1375–ca. 1450. One of the several conceptual developments in this period refl ecting the
Gilbert, Bennett
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L’« Anonyme » : un palimpseste démocritéen dans le Protreptique de Jamblique ?

Kentron, 2012
Iamblichus, in the Protrepticus, brings together many texts mainly borrowed from unnamed philosophers, first and foremost from Plato and Aristotle, into a broad synthesis, framing all of these quoted fragments with a syncretic ...
Michelle Lacore
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Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies

Religions
This article will place the rituals of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) for the acquisition of a supernatural assistant (paredros) into conversation with broader late antique debates surrounding the place of daimones within the celestial hierarchy.
Katarina Pejovic
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]

, 2016
In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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