Was Euclid a Platonist Philosopher?

In this paper, I tackle the question of whether or not the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria, author of the Elements (ca. 300 BCE), was a Platonist philosopher. While Euclid’s Elements is a purely mathematical treatise, and does not mention any philosophical terminology (safe for a few occurrences of metamathematical vocabulary), recent research on Euclid (see …

Two refunctionalising aspects in Lucian: κατ ̓ἔθνη reviews and Phaeton’s myth

The first aspect which the research aims to analyse is a recurring pattern in Lucian’s works (Fugitivi 6-9; De Saltatione 18 -19; De Astrologia 3-10; Iuppiter Tragoedus 42): in order to trace a brief ἀρχαιολογία of a subject (philosophy, pantomime, astrology and religion), he reviews them κατ ̓ἔθνη, as in ethnography, that shows recurring patterns …

Iconography on the coinage of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

The idea that ancient kingdoms had to appeal to the feelings of their subjects through images of power is not strange. We can see it in the representations of the emperors of Rome and in their literary documents. However, this traces of propaganda are more difficult to follow in the Kingdom of Macedonia and in …