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Crantor and Posidonius on Atlantis
The Classical Quarterly, 1983The story of Atlantis, inspiration (on a recent estimate) of more than 20,000 books, rests entirely on an elaborate Platonic myth (Timaeus 20d–26e, continued in Critias 108d–121c), allegedly based on a private, oral tradition deriving from Solon. Solon himself is supposed to have heard the story in Egypt; a priest obligingly translated it for him from ...
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The Classical Quarterly, 1995
Galen's intellectual autobiography,On my own opinions, has challenged, and frustrated, potential editors for over a century. It is preserved in Greek excerpts, in a Latin translation made from the Arabic and with a spurious conclusion, and, for its last three chapters, in a passage of continuous Greek that circulated under the misleading title ofOn the
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Galen's intellectual autobiography,On my own opinions, has challenged, and frustrated, potential editors for over a century. It is preserved in Greek excerpts, in a Latin translation made from the Arabic and with a spurious conclusion, and, for its last three chapters, in a passage of continuous Greek that circulated under the misleading title ofOn the
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1953
Both Iamblichus and Proclus are well aware that when they discuss the relation between soul and mathematicals they are treating a traditional problem. Both know that their solution concerning the identification of the soul with all kinds of mathematicalsmaticals (three in Iamblichus, four in Proclus) is not the only one offered by philosophers. In both
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Both Iamblichus and Proclus are well aware that when they discuss the relation between soul and mathematicals they are treating a traditional problem. Both know that their solution concerning the identification of the soul with all kinds of mathematicalsmaticals (three in Iamblichus, four in Proclus) is not the only one offered by philosophers. In both
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