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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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Tacitus, Stoic Exempla , And The Praecipuum Munus Annalium [PDF]
, 2008 Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be taken seriously: his exempla are supposed to help his readers think through their own moral difficulties.
Turpin, William
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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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Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) [PDF]
, 2010 George H. van Kooten, “Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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Are Plato’s soul-parts psychological subjects? [PDF]
, 2009 It is well-known that Plato’s Republic introduces a tripartition of the incarnate human soul; yet quite how to interpret his ‘parts’ (a term, meros, that is neither recurrent nor emphatic)1 is debated. On a strong reading, they are psychological subjects
Price, Anthony W.
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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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Seneca’s philosophical predecessors and contemporaries [PDF]
, 2013 This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies.
Sellars, John
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POSIDONIUS ON VIRTUE AND THE GOOD
The Classical Quarterly, 2023 AbstractThis paper argues that despite recent tendencies to minimize the differences between Posidonius and the Early Stoics, there are some important aspects of Stoic ethics in which Posidonius deviated from the orthodox doctrine. According to two passages in Diogenes Laertius, Posidonius counted health and wealth among the goods and held that virtue ...
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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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Emotions, Music, and Logos [PDF]
, 2014 The article introduces a cognitive and componential view of religious emotions. General emotions are claimed to consist of at least two compounds, the cognitive compound and the affective compound.
Järveläinen, Petri
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