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MERCES… SENTICOSA. Immaginari stoici nei Floridia di Apuleio
2020
Merces… senticosa. Stoic images in the Florida of Apuleius · In the Florida Apuleius makes use of images related to the rhetorical-philosophical stoic tradition. In particular, in Fl. 18 Apuleius describes the famous sophism of Protagoras, by using, trought an intellectual virtuosity, the metaphor of thorns, a stylistic device linked with the characterization of the Stoicism.
Le filosofie del Mediterraneo: una proposta didattica interdisciplinare
2018
Il contributo vuole essere una proposta di lavoro interdisciplinare, rivolta allo studio di diversi campi del sapere e della cultura. A partire dalla storia della filosofia, infatti, si incontrano anche la storia e la geografia, nelle loro varie sfaccettature, offrendo spunti e suggerimenti per interessanti approfondimenti.
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…