The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The Stoics thought little of that device to save free will: 'they do not allow Epicurus to swerve his atoms a jot, for he thereb ...

theory of inference, by which we may attain knowledge of what is unclear. The Stoic theory of inference - Stoic logic in the nar ...

spoke not of proof and signs but of 'confirmation' and 'disconfirmation': 'if judgements are not confirmed or are disconfirmed, ...

a square tower when seen from a distance may be judged round. The "replicas which leave the tower have sharp edges, but 'as they ...

Even if scepticism does not subvert life, surely it will subvert science? The Hellenistic period was the golden age of Greek sci ...

Problems In Solid Geometry, on a fragment of a late-Hellenistic papyrus. Found in the Fayum in Egypt, this document reflects the ...

the world in motion'. But there is little evidence of any interdisciplinary influence or understanding. Problems of perception e ...

Mechanical Gadgets described by Hero of Alexandria (first century A.D.) in his Pneumatica and Auto- ...

matapoeica. (Left) Steam from a cauldron of boiling water is forced into a hollow sphere from which its only escape is via two s ...

The face of philosophy changed, but the Hellenistic age had left its mark. The systems of the Porch and the Garden never lacked ...

Early Rome And Italy (By Michael Crawford) Map 7. Italy ...

The central theme of this chapter is the Italian element in Roman history. Already under her early kings, before 509 B.C., Rome ...

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Map 8. The Growth Of Rome In Italy: In the early period of her history, Rome was no more than one city among many in Italy, her ...

Architectural Terracottas From Capua. The two antefixes (eaves ornaments) are both datable to the second half of the sixth centu ...

The most distinctive group within Italy is formed by the Greek colonies of the south, strung out along the coast from Cumae to T ...

Plan Of The Sanctuary At Pietrabbondante (c. 100-91 B.C.). The grandest of the Sammte religious centres of the Republican period ...

Early Rome The city of Rome was formed by the linking of a number of villages; the consequence was that the Forum ceased to be u ...

also existed already under the monarchy two different ways in which the Roman people was organized as an assembly, the Comitia C ...

gods one worshipped the better. Apart from the creation of the militarily successful patrician-plebeian state, one other consequ ...