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Galen, divination, and the status of medicine [PDF]
, 2014 Galen's stories about his successes in predicting the development of an illness belong to the best-known anecdotes drawn from his writings. Brilliant pieces of self-presentation, they set Galen apart from his peers, who tried to cover up their ignorance ...
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Algunas consideraciones críticas sobre los viajes de Eudoxo de Cícico
Gerión, 2008 The story about the travels to India supposedly undertaken by Eudoxus of Cyzicus has been kept remained in the work of Strabo, who grounded it on the writings of Posidonius. The tone of this story appears to me as not very realistic.
Manuel Albaladejo Vivero
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Der Fortschritt im geschichtlichen Prozeß - Auseinandersetzungen
Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2001 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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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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GeriónAn 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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Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism [PDF]
, 2015 The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics.
Aikin, Scott
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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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Classica CracoviensiaComparing is a base operation in the description of foreigners. Yet, its role in Hellenistic ethnography is still understudied. The paper looks at practices of comparing in the ethnographic texts of Polybius, Posidonius and Strabo in the 2nd and 1st ...
Julian Gieseke
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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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