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On the Status of Natural Divination in Stoicism [PDF]

, 2020
Cicero’s De divinatione portrays the Stoics as unanimous in advocating both natural and technical divination. I argue that, contrary to this, the earlier leaders of the school like Chrysippus had reasons to consider natural divination to be significantly
Stojanovic, Pavle
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Meteorology [PDF]

, 2020
Greco-Roman meteorology will be described in four overlapping developments. In the archaic period, astro-meteorological calendars were written down, and one appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days; such calendars or almanacs originated thousands of years ...
Johnson, Monte
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The Commentary as Polemical Tool : The Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus against the Stoics [PDF]

, 2008
Contrairement à ce qui est pris d’ordinaire pour acquis, le Commentateur Anonyme du Théétète est philosophiquement stimulant, comme le démontre la confrontation avec le Stoïcisme.
Bonazzi, Mauro
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Ancient Philosophers of Nature on Tides and Currents [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2017
The article deals with currents and tides. We look at the history of their observation in antiquity as well as alternative theories, designed to explain their nature. Major theories accessed are those by Aristotle, Posidonius and Seneca.
Eugene Afonasin
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The concept of the Sun as ἡγεμονικόν in the Stoa and in Manilius’ Astronomica

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2017
Hegemonikon in Stoic vocabulary is the technical term for the chief part or ‘command-centre’ of the soul. As we know, the Stoics considered the cosmos a living organism, and they theorised both about the human soul’s Hegemonikon and about its ...
Eduardo Boechat
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Gades and the Mediterranean: a Process of Integration [PDF]

, 2019
The impetus for this paper is to present possible contributions of the Network Theory approach to the analysis of the Roman presence in Turdetania by the end of the 1st millennium BC.
dos Santos Silva, Bruno
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Varro and the Two-Headed City

Gerión
An in-depth analysis of Varro’s sentence (quoted by Nonius) on Gracchus judiciary law having created a two-headed city shows how the polygrapher artfully combined Plato’s political considerations on constitutional change with Roman priestly lore ...
Pedro López Barja de Quiroga
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GREEK MODELS AND LITERARY SOURCES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ITALY AS SIGN OF ITS BENT TO UNIVERSAL RULE IN DE ARCHITECTURA OF VITRUVIUS (VI 1, 1-11)

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019
The subject of importance of Italy, at the beginning of book VI of De Architectura of Vitruvius (30-20 B.C.) shows a significant change from a geo-climatic conception to a political and ideological one.
Marco Martin
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Posidonio en Plutarco: acerca del nacimiento del alma del mundo [PDF]

, 2011
As it is known, in spite that Posidonius has been named Stoic, in ethics he assumed some basic agreements from the Platonic-Peripatetic scholarship.
Muñoz Gallarte, Israel
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