odwaga-i-dzialanie: Seneka Młodszy

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Seneca and the History of Roman Eating. This dissertation argues that the younger Seneca uses food and eating throughout his corpus as a way of teaching Stoicism in the Latin language within his first-century Imperial Roman environment. Eating, a popular theme in much Latin literature of the Republic and early Empire, is a way of bridging philosophy and literature; since Seneca authors the first Stoic pedagogical project written in the Latin language, he needs to find ways to relate to his Roman readership. Writing about eating thus helps makes Stoicism attractive and accessible to a Roman literary audience. In order to incorporate eating within his own brand of Stoicism, I argue that Senec…

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Earth may have had all the elements needed for life within it all along − contrary to theories that these elements came from meteorites

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Measurable Harmony. Elements of Empirical World Harmony

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