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... Stoic version of the universe is the correct one , and eternal purpose rules the structure and the processes of reality through an unbreakable , irre- versible , and foreseeable chain of events , or , on the con- trary , the Epicureans ...
... Stoic version of the universe is the correct one , and eternal purpose rules the structure and the processes of reality through an unbreakable , irre- versible , and foreseeable chain of events , or , on the con- trary , the Epicureans ...
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... Stoic saint ? Perhaps , perhaps not . But there is , after all , a kind of art that is tragic and funny at the same ... Stoic sects long believed would deliver them from the temptations and evils of this world and enable them to ...
... Stoic saint ? Perhaps , perhaps not . But there is , after all , a kind of art that is tragic and funny at the same ... Stoic sects long believed would deliver them from the temptations and evils of this world and enable them to ...
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... Stoic staints . ( It is useful , when we read this scene , to recall the naughty burlesques that both Propertius and Ovid fash- ioned from this piece of imperial iconography - Caesar becomes a star . ) Pompey leaps up ( prosiluit ) ...
... Stoic staints . ( It is useful , when we read this scene , to recall the naughty burlesques that both Propertius and Ovid fash- ioned from this piece of imperial iconography - Caesar becomes a star . ) Pompey leaps up ( prosiluit ) ...
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Erictho and Her Universe I | 1 |
The Delusions of Virtue | 35 |
The Illusions of History | 67 |
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