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From Carneades to Cicero
2015
This chapter is about how Stoic epistemology developed in the two centuries after Chrysippus’ death. I first show that, as a result of Carneades’ critique in the mid-second century, there was a shift of emphasis in the epistemological debate between the Stoa and the Academy. From then on the task was not to explain what causal features a cognitive thought has, but to describe what phenomenological features it has. I show that the later Stoics responded to this challenge in two different ways. Some changed Chrysippus’ theory quite radically. They held that a cognitive thought is characterized by giving rise to a sense of conviction, denied that preconceptions count as cognitive thoughts, and…
Convergence of nociceptive and non-nociceptive inputs onto spinal reflex pathways to the tibialis anterior muscle in humans
1998
The interaction of low-threshold mechanoreceptive and nociceptive inputs onto spinal neurones probably plays a major role in the pathophysiology of the clinical sign of allodynia. This phenomenon was investigated by modulation of the early component of the flexor reflex (FR) in the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle, elicited by electrical stimulation of the medial plantar nerve at the sole of the foot, by homotopically applied painful heat in humans. This early reflex with an electrical threshold of 2.7-fold the detection threshold and a mean afferent conduction velocity of 49 m s-1 is a non-nociceptive FR. When applying conditioning painful heat (46 degrees C) to the sole of the foot this refl…
Dumb Animals: A Short History of Classical Logocentrism
2021
Among the most common and influential stereotypes of Greco-Roman literature is the idea that animals are ‘dumb’ (ἄλογα/muta), that is, mute and devoid of reason. In recent years, several explorations of what Stephen Newmyer has aptly called the ‘man alone of animals’ topos have pointed out that in asserting the privileged status of humans the ancients attached special importance to articulate language. Yet, most of these explorations have adopted a thematic rather than historical approach in an attempt to provide a comparative assessment of ancient and modern paradigms. In the present paper, I follow a historical line through the literary representations of animals as ‘dumb’, focusing on tw…
Res sunt ut agas. Scritti per Gianna Petrone
2010
Un intrigo a fin di bene: esemplarità del Trinummus
2016
Interpretazione di un passo del Trinummus, sulla scorta di una rilettura di Cicerone e di Lattanzio
L'irosa eloquenza delle strumae
2013
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Cicero in his in Vatinium employs the iconic power of the body of the accused, Vatinius, and its repulsive strumae as a logical tool to support his persuasion strategy, thereby creating an enthymeme based upon the premises provided by the features of the body. This way of reasoning rests upon a strongly oriented and often distorting reading of the physical characteristics of the body in accordance with the physiognomic and pathognomonic doctrines. As a result, the de-formities of Vatinius's body, instead of being used to commend Vatinius, become important elements in Cicero's strategy of belittling his opponent's authority.
Quantum potero voce contendam. La pro Ligario di Cicerone nel giudizio di Quintiliano
2019
The paper analyses one of the last voices of the Ciceronian oratory, the Pro Ligario. After a reconstruction of the context in which the oration was produced, the attention is focused on the reception of the text by Quintilian, who on several occasions in the Institutio oratoria shows particular interest for the multiple problems connected to it, identifying the peculiar characteristics.
Non nuocere, aiutare, non offendere. Rileggere il De officiis di Cicerone nel conflitto tra prossimi e lontani
2019
Can Cicero’s De officiis be considered as an excuse for justifying and supporting the common idea that rights, aid and solidarity have been reserved only to those are “close” to us? In the current debate concerning the real universality and the value of human rights, the interpretation of the last work of Arpino’s author, framed in its historical and cultural context, may contribute to a fair restitution of the meaning we assume for the virtue named ratio societatis et communitatis.
Il discorso sui 'metalla' fra ideologia, poetica e retorica. Da Cicerone a Prudenzio
2002
L'articolo mira a ricostruire, attraverso un percorso per sondaggi e campioni, l'ampio dibattito sviluppato dalla cultura latina intorno al tema dello sfruttamento delle risorse minerarie in un arco di tempo che va dalla tarda repubblica al V secolo d. C. Analizzando una serie di testi appartenenti ad epoche, generi ed autori diversi (Cicerone, Ovidio, Manilio, Seneca, Lucano, Silio Italico, Tiberiano, Prudenzio) si pone in luce la natura eminentemente etico-culturale, e assai spesso moralistica, dell'interesse mostrato dagli scrittori latini per questo tipo di tematiche. Al contempo, tuttavia, si segnala un significativo slittamento prospettico nelle varie fasi della storia culturale roman…
Serve ancora ucidere i tiranni? A proposito di Ps. Quint. decl. min. 253
2018
The paper deals with Ps. Quint. decl. min. 253; in the text, concerning one of the best-known themes of the declamatory literature, a tyrannicide, after killing a tyrant, asks the community for approval of a rogatio in order to be sent to the tyrant of the nearby city. The declamation focuses on a hero willing to put the salvation of the community before his own, a theme certainly usual in Latin thought, but which traces new interpretative ways in the declamatory culture.