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GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS IN THE FIRST CENTURY BC: POSIDONIUS’ F 49 E ̶ K AND VITRUVIUS’ ON ARCHITECTURE VI 1. 3 ̶ 13 [PDF]
The article analyses innovative ethno-geographical systems of the first century BC. During Hellenistic times, the science of geography made use of increasingly advanced mathematical and astronomical skills to ensure a scientific basis for the ...
Eduardo M. B. Boechat
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Posidonius’ Two Systems: Animals and Emotions in Middle Stoicism [PDF]
This paper attempts to reconstruct the views of the Stoic Posidonius on the emotions, especially as presented by Galen’s On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. This is a well-studied area, and many views have been developed over the last few decades.
Harriman, Benjamin
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Posidonius on emotionsand non-conceptual content [PDF]
In this paper I argue that the work of the unorthodox Stoic Posidonius - as reported to us by Galen - can be seen as making an interesting contribution to contemporary debates about the nature of emotion.
Wringe, B.
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Ancient Philosophers of Nature on Tides and Currents [PDF]
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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Recent tectonic activity in and around the Posidonius crater, Moon.
<p>The shapefiles and .scc files of the manuscript: "Recent tectonic activity in and around the Posidonius crater, Moon."</p ...
R.K.S Priya +6 more
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Der Fortschritt im geschichtlichen Prozeß - Auseinandersetzungen
In der zeitgenössischen Geschichtsphilosophie hat sich die Überzeugung von der entscheidenden Rolle des geschichtlichen Prozesses für die Konstituierung des menschlichen Daseins festgesetzt. Im Zusammenhang damit hat der Diskurs zum Thema der Idee (bzw.
Zygmunt Mańkowski
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Joret Charles. Le ΠΕΡΣΕΙΟΝ de Posidonius. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 12, fascicule 45,1899. pp.
Joret, Charles
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The concept of the Sun as ἡγεμονικόν in the Stoa and in Manilius’ Astronomica
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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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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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
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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