La ricerca si compone di tre parti, distinte tra loro ma complementari: nella prima si ripercorrono le linee storiche dell'opera, analizzando la data e il luogo dove Porfirio ha composto il Contra Christianos, alla luce ...

Il complesso sistema teologico-metafisico elaborato da Proclo è sorretto e governato dal duplice presupposto dell‟assoluta trascendenza causale dell'Uno e della necessaria relazione che Esso intrattiene con i Molti: sicché ...

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 ...

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 ...

La nozione di "vita" assume nel pensiero plotiniano un ruolo assolutamente centrale: non è possibile, infatti, comprendere la costruzione del sistema metafisico di Plotino, prescindendo dall'analisi del significato che il ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...