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De Opificio Lactantii: a reassessment of the work of L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
… major Hell~nistic schools of philosophy - the Epicureans, the Stoics and the New Academy. These chapters confirm that Lactantius saw himself as the Christian Cicero and they show that he is less important as a source for philosophical detail than he is for what he reveals to us about the place …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… accounts of social formation favoured by the Epicureans. The second section considers how the ancient accounts of impulsive behaviour and social formation were received and diffused via new editions of ancient texts, eclectic readings of Aristotle, and the attempts of Neostoic and Neoepicurean …