The middle of the second until the middle of the first century BCE is one of the most creative
periods in the history of human thought, and an important part of this was the interaction …

This study tries to make sense of Husserl's explicit view of the relation between Plato and
Aristotle within the general framework of his overall phenomenological project. After a …

The Hellenistic era refers to the period between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE)
and the Battle of Actium (31 BCE), where the Roman leader Octavian defeated the last …

The belief that poetry had special properties beyond its artistic features was very deep
rooted in Ancient Greece; it was already attested in the Odyssey when the prodigious …

The present article consists in an analysis of the Platonist telos of homoiosis theoi, with a
particular focus on its link and debt to the Aristotelian ideal of the theoretical life (bios …

This passage, preserved in Stobaeus' Anthology, and attributed to Eudorus (1st century BC–
1st century AD), marked a highly significant turning point in the Platonist formulation of the …

Abstract In Metaphysics Λ7 1072b30–1073a3, Aristotle introduces a Speusippean theory
according to which 'what is most beautiful and best is not en archēi'. Through a detailed …

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on some philosophical reappraisals of Ulysses.
After a brief general introduction (I), I focus on Plato's Ulysses, whom I consider as the …

The article consists of an analysis of Chapter 28 of the Didaskalikos of Alcinous, a
compendium of Platonic doctrine which, most probably, goes back to imperial Platonism or …

Through a mention to the Middle Platonists and a reference to a late antique text that
presents a comparison between Plato and the Demiurge, I set out to show just one of those …