Search results for "CICERO"

Synthetic phenomenology and high-dimensional buffer hypothesis

2012

Synthetic phenomenology typically focuses on the analysis of simplified perceptual signals with small or reduced dimensionality. Instead, synthetic phenomenology should be analyzed in terms of perceptual signals with huge dimensionality. Effective phenomenal processes actually exploit the entire richness of the dynamic perceptual signals coming from the retina. The hypothesis of a high-dimensional buffer at the basis of the perception loop that generates the robot synthetic phenomenology is analyzed in terms of a cognitive architecture for robot vision the authors have developed over the years. Despite the obvious computational problems when dealing with high-dimensional vectors, spaces wit…

Obblighi d'informazione del venditore e responsabilità da silenzio e reticentia nella compravendita romana

«Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores» (off. i 38) Cicerone e gli exempla a proposito delle guerre puniche

2021

In a section of the De officiis, Book i, Cicero deals with the justice of warfare. He asserts that the enemies defeated who were not cruel and savage should be spared, so the maiores utterly destroyed Carthage and Numantia (i 35). In i 38 Cicero refers to the wars undertaken by Romans, distinguishing the ones waged de imperio (as the Punic wars) from the others fighted uter esset (as the wars against Celtiberi and Cimbri): the first must be fought less cruelly, but Cicero justifies the destruction of Carthage with the sentence Poeni foedifragi, crudelis Hannibal, reliqui iustiores, probably containing a quotation from Ennius’s Annales. These passages, examined in comparison with historical …

Lilibeo nelle Verrine

2021

The essay analyzes the passages of Cicero's Verrinae regarding Lilybaeum and the numerous events of misappropriation and infringement by the governor of the island.

Tra tradizione punica e interpretatio romana: nota sui culti al Capo Boeo in età tardo-repubblicana

2021

Starting from the appellation of civitas splendidissima given by Cicero to Lilybaeum and from its relation with the juridical status of the Punic city after the Roman conquest, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct the topography of the town, with particular reference to the religious landscape. The most part of the data, as well as the information coming from epigraphy and numismatics concern the 2nd Century BC or, according with th common interpretation, the years in which Lilybaeum was under the control of Sextus Pompeus. Depicting an image of the “ciceronian city” implies an analysis of all the data, literary sources included, in order to establish which elements were still surviving …

Monumenti ‘contro’: spazio, memoria e lotta politica in Roma antica. A proposito di Cic. Phil. 14, 32-33

2023

The paper deals with a proposal by Cicero in the fourteenth Philippic aimed at erecting a public tomb for the brave soldiers who died in the battle of Forum Gallorum. This proposal hides the orator’s desire for a monument, perhaps strategically placed in a prominent position in the Campus Martius, which would combine the celebration of the fallen with a firm condemnation of Antonius, who is, in the opinion of Cicero, a hostis publicus.

Meritare le responsabilità. Il complicato confine tra merito, virtù e gloria in Cicerone e in Tacito

2017

Quale posto la relazione tra merito e responsabilità ha avuto nelle concezioni morali dei Romani? Quale lessico ne è in qualche modo spia e rappresentazione? Per provare a rispondere a tali domande intendo partire dal Dialogus de oratoribus di Tacito, che presenterò come un apologo significativo del conflitto tra successo, gloria e virtù, utile anche per misurare la distanza tra le idee romane di merito e responsabilità e quelle nostre; quindi passerò dal racconto al modello, andando a recuperare, dietro i personaggi dell’opera, la riflessione etica compiuta dall’ultimo Cicerone, che trova il suo punto culturalmente più interessante proprio nell’individuazione di criteri che definiscono il …

Cicero and the Opinion of the People: The Nature, Role and Power of Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic

2007

Abstract This article deals with the concept of public opinion in the life and works of the Roman orator, philosopher and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC). It is conceptualized as a contribution to the historiography of public opinion theory. The basis for the analysis of Cicero’s body of thought is his complete oeuvre: almost 800 letters, about 60 speeches and more than 20 treatises. After an introduction to the concepts of public opinion, the article is subdivided into four sections. First, Cicero’s terms and definitions of public opinion are excerpted from his speeches and philosophical treatises. Second, the text depicts which role and qualities Cicero attributed to public o…

SPEECH AND SILENCE IN CICERO'S FINAL DAYS

2014

Composed in spring of 46 BC, Cicero's Brutus emphasizes oratorical silence, in stark contrast with the prominence of the speech act found in the Pro Marcello and first Philippic. Yet in the face of those difficult times and amidst the silence that such times engender, Cicero ironically finds his voice. This paper will demonstrate Cicero's acute awareness, in his final days, of the need to employ his rediscovered voice in light of eloquence's changed role in Rome's new political climate.

Vox Naturae: The Myth of Animal Nature in the Latin Roman Republic

2016

The paper examines the representation of animals as embodiment of nature in the culture of the late Roman republic. By discussing a selection of passages from Sallust, Cicero and Lucretius in conjunction with other Greek and Latin sources, the paper shows that the typically Western myth of 'animal nature' - the cultural belief that animal mirror a perennial state of nature, as opposed to human society - played a very important role in the ethical debate of the first century BC and took in this period a form which was bound to influence the centuries to come.