The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how within the Quaestiones ad Thalassium the monk Massimo the Confessor’s reasoning is structured in two different perspectives: practical philosophy and mystical ascension. The ...

The aim of my PhD dissertation is to analyze the changes in the use of the words δαίμων and δαιμόνιον between the Hellenistic period and the Christian thought of the Second and the Third Centuries. In Hellenistic period, ...

Convened by emperor Justinian (527-565) in 532 was held in Constantinople a meeting between neocalcedonians and monophysite bishops to agree on the christological disputes that continued to rage in the big cities of the ...

This work’s goal is not only to detect the originality of the philoponian Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, but also to show that logic is an autonomous discipline which studies the reality of being as practical and ...

Il presente studio è motivato dall'interesse per la celebre quanto complessa sezione del Filebo in cui si allude al cosiddetto dono degli dèi, consistente nella rivelazione che "le cose che si dice che sempre sono" (Phil. ...

The thesis consists of three parts: the first is historical and the other two dedicated to a textual analysis. Historiographical, philological and hermeneutic considerations are strictly linked with the interpretation of ...

The work moves from the intention to verify the presence of an hypostasiology in the ontological conception of Gregory Palamas, ascertained, from one side, that the critical literature on the hesychast theologian has ...

La presente tesi di dottorato consiste in uno studio sistematico su una parte della storia del platonismo. In particolare, il lavoro si propone di analizzare il concetto di demiurgia così come viene sviluppato tra il Medio ...

The present study consists of a critical analysis of Book I of the Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus by Hermias of Alexandria (fifth century AD), that is, the only ancient commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus that has been handed ...

Macrobio’s Commentario comprises two books where the author makes a detailed analysis of the Somnium Scipionis, featured in the sixth book of Cicero’s Repubblica. In this work, Cicero tells of Scipione Emiliano recalling ...