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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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Tolemeo di Mauretania. L’ideologia politica e la morte a Roma nel settembre del 40

2022

The paper, through the analysis of literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources, and through the contribution of statuary, aims at investigating the causes that determined first the fall into disgrace, and then the death sentence of Ptolemy of Mauretania. A set of reasons, the main of which have an ideological-political and cultural nature, and can be summarized in a self-congratulatory intention, is behind the death sentence of the king, that we propose to contextualize in Rome, after a period of imprisonment, not before September 40 BC, when Caligula went back from Campania.

Settore L-ANT/03 - Storia RomanaCaligula Early Roman Empire Mauretania Ptolemy Foreign Policy of the Roman Empire
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