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      • Egyptian Hieroglyphics – The Domination of Platonic Interpretation
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      • The Decipherment of Cuneiform Writing – Henry Rawlinson and the Inscription of Behistun
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      • ASSASSINS. The secret warriors of the “Old Man of the Mountain”
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      • THE NAZI EXPEDITION TO TIBET 1938-39. The Search for the Cradle of the Aryans
  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
    • NEOPLATONISM
      • Life as a Game of Gods
      • Panpsychism
      • Plotinus’ Mystical Empiricism
      • The Metaphysical Moment: Time and Eternity
      • The Mystical Experience
      • The Vertical Dynamics of the Ideas of Particulars and the Theory of Truth
      • Two Interpretative Approaches to the Work of Plotinus
      • Theology of the Chaldeans and Plotinus
    • CYNICISM
      • Cynic Philosophers – The Radical Deniers of Social Conventions
    • STOICISM
      • TO LIVE ACCORDING TO REASON AND NATURE
      • MARCUS AURELIUS Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor (121-180 AD)
    • EPICUREANISM
      • EPICURUS. A Charismatic Philosopher of the Hellenistic Era
  • Mayistica
    • The Spanish Conquest of the Maya Kingdoms
    • HISTORY OF THE DECIPHERMENT OF MAYA WRITING
    • THE CONCEPT AND PRACTICES OF THE SACRED IN MAYA
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    • Early Christian Symbolism
    • Gnosticism – A Mystical Heresy in the Shadow of Christianity
    • Utopian “States” of the First Christian Centuries
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    • Basil Tatakis – The Initiator of the Study of Byzantine Philosophy
    • Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
    • Mysticism – Spirituality
    • Plotinus and John Damascenus
    • Plotinus and Maximus the Confessor
    • Michael Psellos
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    • Vincent on Plethon
    • THEODORE METOCHITES. AN ENCYCLOPAEDIST OF LATE BYZANTIUM
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    • The Search for Universal Knowledge
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    • Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Art of War
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    • POETICALNESS AND ALTERITY
    • The Concept of the Simulacrum
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Literary Studies

Science Fiction in Antiquity

POETICALNESS AND ALTERITY

The Concept of the Simulacrum

GIACOMO LEOPARDI’S “DIALOGUE  BETWEEN PLOTINUS AND PORPHYRY”

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