Roman Philosophy under Construction: the Concept of Spatium from Lucretius to Cicero

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Aristotle’s Conception of Place and its Reception in the Hellenistic Period 11
6. Aspects and Problems of Chrysippus’ Conception of Space 53
7. Posidonius on the Void. A Controversial Case of Divergence Revisited 69
8. Epicurus on the Void 83
9. Space and Movement in Philodemus’ De dis 3: an Anti-Aristotelian Account 101
10. Roman Philosophy under Construction: the Concept of Spatium from Lucretius to Cicero 125
11. Aenesidemus the Anti-Physicist 141
12. Φαινόμενα contra Νοούμενα: Sextus Empiricus, the Notion of Place and the Pyrrhonian Strategy at Work 159
13. Doxographical Reverberations of Hellenistic Discussions on Space 181
14. Bibliography 201
15. Index locorum 211
16. Index nominum antiquiorum 221
17. Index nominum recentiorum 223