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Omar Di Paola

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Elementi e problemi del medioplatonismo latino: Cicerone e Seneca.

Medioplatonismo platonismo Seneca Cicerone
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Fabio Tutrone, Filosofi e animali in Roma antica, ETS, Pisa 2012, (Book Review)

2013

Filosofia AnticaLucrezioSettore M-FIL/07 - Storia Della Filosofia AnticaFilosofia RomanaSenecaRoma Antica
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Laura Candiotto, Le vie della Confutazione, Mimesis, Milano 2012, (Book Review)

2012

Ancient philosophy.Platonedialoghi socraticiSettore M-FIL/07 - Storia Della Filosofia Anticafilosofia Antica.Plato
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Philosophical thought of the School of the Sextii

2014

Around the first half century B.C. the first Roman school of philosophy arose, which was called School of Sextii. The known members of the School were: Quintus Sextius the Elder, founding father of the School, Sextius Niger, Quintus' son, who became scholarch of the School after his father's death, Sotion, Papirius Fabianus (both teachers of Seneca the Younger), Crassicius Pasicles, a grammarian, and Celsius Cornelius, an expert doctor. The School followed the footsteps of the Hellenistic schools, and similar to these, the pursuit of happiness was its purpose. The school of the Sextii had taken to heart that part of the philosophy called physical, characterizing itself mainly as a philosoph…

Roman Philosophy Ancient Sextii school Quintus Sextius Sextius Niger Seneca the Younger Papirius Fabianus Sotion Courage Roman school Early Roman Empire Roman Republic post-Hellenistic school philosophical-medical school virtuesSettore M-FIL/07 - Storia Della Filosofia AnticaFilosofia Romana Impero Romano Seneca il Giovane Papirio Fabiano Sozione Quinto Sestio Sestio Nigro Scuola dei Sesti Filosofia Imperiale ultimo periodo repubblica Romana scuole post-ellenistiche scuola medico-filosofica coraggio virtù
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