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This article mainly focuses on Sextus Empiricus’ only evidence (M. 7,201 =
Antioc. Ascal. 66 Luck = F2 Mette = F2 Sedley) for Antiochus’ of Ascalon Kanonika.
David Sedley maintains that Antiochus wrote his Kanonika before the ‘publication’
in 87 BC of the so-called Roman Books by his master Philo of Larissa.
Accordingly, the Kanonika do not include any criticism against the Sceptics of the
Academy. The close examination of Sextus’ testimony shows that in all likelihood

The main goal of this paper is to show that before the ‘syncretistic’ philosophical position of the Academic philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon, a very similar view (mutatis mutandis) was already to be found in the Epicurean thinker Colotes of Lampsacus but obviously with very different goals. It is commonly assumed that the ‘doctrinal harmony’ between Plato and Aristotle began with Antiochus at the end of Hellenistic age.

Review: J. Hammerstaedt, P.-M. Morel, R. Güremen (eds.) Diogenes of Oinoanda. Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates / Diogène d’Œnoanda. Épicurisme et Controverses, Leuven University Press, Leuven 2017, xxv-321 pp.

L'articolo illustra la posizione del filosofo greco Epicuro sul problema dello statuto del significato linguistico, alla luce del corrente dibattito su tale tema, in chiave sia storica che teorica. In base a un'analisi delle evidenze testuali si sostiene che in E. esiste una genuina concezione dell'esistenza e dell'autonomia del significato in stretto nesso con la sua teoria gnoseologica.

Horace in ep. 1.4 opposes a sad, somehow Stoic Tibullus to himself as a happy, fat Epicurean. Seneca in ep. 60 blames a number of tenets of Epicureanism in its trivial acception (e.g. the love for easy life and good food), quoting a phrase from Sallust, and then in ep. 61 proposes Stoic way of life as the right life.