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Ancient reflections on tèchne: A lesson not learned?

By Stefano Maso The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is where the belief was born that man is able, with tèchne, to translate his will into practice. Tèchne – as…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 30, 2020
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Aristotle and gender: form vs matter?

Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary divided between those who determine the social world – men – and those who need to be determined – women…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 23, 2020
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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Venus Voluptas: The Desire of Gods and Men

Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • August 14, 2018
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