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This paper aims to discuss Crantor’s influence on Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes in order to shed light on the Academic origin of Cicero’s treatment of emotions. The main focus is the role of Crantor’s On Grief in the third book of Cicero’s Tusculanae, since this book is representative of the development of Roman consolatory tradition as well as of the influence, more or less explicit, of Crantor and, more generally, of the Academy as a centre for the pursuit of practical ethics...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the concept of divinity expressed in Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus, presenting the philosophical allegory as the key to reconcile the structural ambiguities and apparent contradictions present in the Stoic theology expressed therein...

Interpretare Platone è uno dei grandi filoni, non solo del pensiero antico, ma anche di tutta la riflessione filosofica poster

Celsus presents several objections against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus and his post-mortem apparitions. He dubbes these apparitions phantasiai, therefore Origen asserts him to be epicurean and not platonic, as, instead, he claims to be...