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Proclus, Erototokos and "the Great Confusion" : Neoplatonist defense of polytheistic piety in early byzantine Athens
2012
Contributi alla ricostruzione dell'Hortensius di Cicerone
2002
Hermias Alexandrinus. In Platonis Phaedrum scholia. Ediderunt Carlo M. Lucarini et Claudio Moreschini
2012
How can Parmenides’ τὸ ἐόν be unending but non-endless?
2023
In this paper we shall walk a well-trodden but still only partially explored path, along which we shall attempt to establish a basis for the study of the Parmenides poem’s unity by way of a comparison with 20th-century physics. In particular, we shall investigate the hypothesis that Parmenides’ sphere-shaped τὸ ἐόν, as described in B8.42-49, could be understood as a hyperspherical unlimited whole cosmologically bounded by the διάκοσμος described by the complex sphere system in fragment B12.
La sophía come paideia
2021
La filosofia può essere intesa come sophía, ossia come sapere puro in grado di cogliere la verità che si nasconde dietro l’apparenza delle cose sensibili. La parola chiave sophos (sapiente), originariamente, oltre che essere rapportata al possesso del sapere puro, implicava la capacità di un’abilità pratica, sul modello dell’artigiano. In questa prospettiva, i concetti di sophía e di phronesis risultano strettamente legati a quello di paideia. Philosophy as to be considered as "sophía", as a pure knowledge, reaching the truth, that is hidden behind the appereance of material objects. The keyword "sophos" (wise man), originally was related to the pure knowledge, as well as to a practical ski…
Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam
2023
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Ma…
Could Themis be the Deity who «Steers» Parmenides’ Cosmos?
2021
In this paper I will investigate the identity of the daímōn introduced by Parmenides in B12, 3 DK, the deity “who steers all things”. The importance of this deity is not adequately reflected in ancient doxography but in recent decades many scholars have reconsidered its role. I argue that in Parmenides’ poem this daímōn may play a relevant role in connecting the theological, ontological and cosmological planes. My purpose is to provide enough arguments for the hypothesis that the daímōn may be the same goddess, Themis, who in the proem (B1, 28) is paired with Dike as a guide for Parmenides to the theá who will reveal to him the truth of tò eón, and in the part of the poem called alḗtheia (B…
La storia della filosofia nell'età classica
2013
Affrontando lo studio della filosofia antica, preliminarmente debbono essere poste almeno due domande: una sull’origine e l’altra sul carattere di questo segmento storico del pensiero occidentale. Alla prima domanda si può rispondere agevolmente, poiché è fin troppo noto che la filosofia, alla quale si richiama la tradizione della civiltà occidentale, è sorta nelle colonie greche dell’Asia Minore tra la fine del VII e l’inizio del VI secolo a.C.; alla seconda domanda, invece, è assai difficile dare risposta, poiché, trattandosi di una disciplina umanistica che, a differenza delle discipline scientifiche, non possiede un codice unico o unilaterale, non può essere definita a priori. Se si può…