The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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Later Philosophy (By Anthony Meredith) General Tendencies The period with which this section is concerned is bracketed by the ...

Posidonius Of Apamea (c.135-50 B.C.), the last of the great polymaths of the Hellenistic age; he wrote on geography, astronomy, ...

a Platonic anthology, now lost, from which these excerpts were taken. It does not seem necessary to postulate such a book, but i ...

The Nymphaeum Of Herodes Atticus At Olympia (reconstruction model). The immensely wealthy Athenian sophist (c. A.D. 101-77) was ...

that the age saw the rapid expansion of Christianity, but it would be hardly fair to label all Christians as either pathological ...

Plato's Academy: mosaic panel found near Pompeii (late second or first century B.C.). According to a recent theory, the figure a ...

some Platonists, who might have been happy to admit the possibility of knowledge, regarded the proposed alliance between Plato a ...

Opinions about his philosophical seriousness vary from the declared and consistent, if not always orthodox Platonism attributed ...

visible world he sides with Albinus. The same may also be said for the great Christian theologian Origen (185-254), who perhaps ...

On one occasion he writes that being is 'not a corpse, and not not-life and not not-thinking.' The second feature of importance ...

such an opposition of soul and body. Again, therefore, the question must be asked: does such language express a profound metaphy ...

programme for a highly organized society making towards a goal of general improvement.' Nevertheless there is something inexpres ...

reign, to a career of almost continuous warfare. Marcus Aurelius, born in 121 A.D., was adopted by the Emperor Antoninus Pius in ...

Aerial View Of Carnuntum, where Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his Meditations. Occupying an important strategic position on the ...

always there in the background. On the whole Marcus prefers the more to the less personal expressions. He has less to say about ...

Part Of The Inscription Of Diogenes Of Oenoanda (second century A.D.). Over 200 fragments of this amazing philosophical text hav ...

As in the other systems here described, the central aim was one of offering the maximum of happiness. It must be admitted at the ...

The Arts Of Living (By Roger Ling) Introduction The object of the present chapter is to review those aspects of Roman art and ...

Isometric Diagram Of A Pompeian House. The tendency to an axial layout with a sequence of roofed and unroofed elements is clearl ...