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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]
, 2016 The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2012 The rhetorical skill of the biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in his Parallel Lives is made manifest by certain linguistic usages with which he characterizes his protagonists.
David Hernández de la Fuente +1 more
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Umano, più che umano, quasi divino : la figura del filosofo secondo Plutarco
Aitia, 2015 This article studies three essential aspects of the philospher according to Plutarch of Chaeronea : his ἀτοπία, his particular association with divinity, as well as the modes and content of his philosophy.
Angelo Giavatto
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Synthesis (La Plata), 2016 En varios estudios sobre la interpretación del término politeuma, Patrick Sí¤nger sostiene que tiene tres significados básicos: a) “acto político”, b) “la ciudadanía” o conjunto de ciudadanos activos”, y c) “sistema de gobierno” y, por lo tanto ...
Delfim Ferreira Leão
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Eloquent Alogia: Animal Narrators in Ancient Greek Literature
Humanities, 2017 Classical Greek literature presents a variety of speaking animals. These are not, of course, the actual voices of animals but human projections. In a culture that aligns verbal mastery with social standing, verbal animals present a conundrum that speaks ...
Tom Hawkins
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A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology. [PDF]
Hist Psychiatry, 2023 Metzger N.
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Ex occidente imperium : Alexander the Great and the rise of the Maurya empire [PDF]
, 2015 Since the nineteenth century, many authors have seen the campaign of Alexander the Great in the Punjab as a pivotal moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Fauconnier, Bram
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The Ethics of Ancient Lactation and the Cult of the Perfect Breastfeeding Mother. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2023 Groff E, Steger F.
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Lucretius' arguments on the swerve and free-action [PDF]
, 2019 In his version of atomism, Lucretius made explicit reference to the concept of an intrinsic declination of the atom, the atomic swerve (clinamen in Latin), stressing that the time and space of the infinitesimal atomic vibration is uncertain. The topic of
Evangelidis, Basil
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Starzec w polityce. Zmienne poglądy Plutarcha z Cheronei
Vox Patrum, 2011 Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-122/125) changed his attitude to on old age in the successive stages of his life and literary production. In the period between AD 85 and 95 the middle-aged author inclined to the Stoic theory on old age.
Ewa Osek
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