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Selected Letters of Marcus Aurelius
The correspondence between Marcus Aurelius and Fronto reveals the future emperor not only as a Stoic thinker, but as a student, friend, son, and deeply sensitive human being.
Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Tradition in Cicero’s Works
The figure of Pythagoras occupies an important place in the philosophical treatises of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Numerous references allow us to reconstruct the image of Pythagoreanism in the Roman intellectual tradition of the 1st century BCE.
Blind leading the blind
Six blind people follow each other, each one holding on to the one ahead of them by holding on to a shoulder or a stick, the last one walks without much difficulty without feeling the danger, but the first one falls into a ditch.
5 proofs of God’s existence
The period from the 13th to the 14th century saw remarkable developments in Christian thought in medieval Europe.
The Hunters in the Snow: A Complete Guide
The view opens from the height of a tree or elevation, much higher than human height, there is a hypothesis that we look at the world through the eyes of a bird that at this moment flies to the trees and this vision is captured by a painter.
Two Chained Monkeys by Pieter Bruegel
Of all of Bruegel’s works, “Two Chained Monkeys” exhibits the simplest composition but not the simplest meaning.
All the pictures in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
In this article we will look at all the paintings present in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.