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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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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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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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In the Shadow of the Empire

Classica Cracoviensia
Comparing 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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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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Ślady żeglugi po morzu martwym w tekstach antycznych (IVBC-IIAC).

Studia Maritima, 2016
For almost 100 years there has been no navigation in the Dead Sea. Its two banks are occupied by two states – Israel and Jordan – which do not maintain close relations with one another; yet, there are no lumps of asphalt any longer, and fishery has ...
Piotr Briks
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L’incendio del Campidoglio e la fine del saeculum etrusco

Gerión, 2005
In the years 91 to 82 BCE Italy had to suffer because of a series of civil and external wars. People believed that the entire world was upset in occasion of the birth of a new saeculum, as the Etruscan soothsayers were forecasting.
Attilio Mastrocinque
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The Error in Longitude in Ptolemy’s Geography [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2015
It is well known that all longitudes in Ptolemy’s Geography are cumulatively overestimated, so that his map is excessively stretched from west to east as compared with the modern map.
Shcheglov, Dmitry
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Sympathie universelle et souffle cosmique : le monde des stoïciens, de Posidonius à Chrysippe

Arts et Savoirs
According to the Stoics, the world is an immense living body, unified by a principle that is both warm breath and ordering intelligence. All the beings in the world are linked by this community of breath (sumpnoia) so that they are all co-affected by ...
Christelle Veillard
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