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    The sceptical road: Aenesidemus' appropriation of Heraclitus.Roberto Polito - 2004 - Boston: Brill.
    The book addresses the question of the alleged Heracliteanism of the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus.
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  2. (1 other version)Matter, Medicine, and the Mind: Asclepiades vs. Epicurus.Roberto Polito - 2006 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30:285-335.
  3. Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia.Roberto Polito (ed.) - 2014 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on ancient Scepticism. It provides an extensive philosophical and historical commentary, and throws light on a series of questions concerning the philosophy of the late Academy, Stoic Heracliteanism, and the interaction between medicine and philosophy in the late Hellenistic era. It will be an essential reference work for all those (...)
     
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    Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism?Roberto Polito - 2013 - In Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC: new directions for philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 118.
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    Competence conflicts between philosophy and medicine: Caelius aurelianus and the stoics on mental diseases.Roberto Polito - 2016 - Classical Quarterly 66 (1):358-369.
    It is an established Hellenistic topos that philosophy is the ‘medicine’ of the soul, in charge of ‘healing’ the soul in the same way as medicine is in charge of healing the body. The ‘diseases’ of the soul deemed to be in need of healing are its passions, that is, its fears and desires, and the moral ‘health’ that philosophers pledge to grant their followers is freedom from passions and hence peace of mind.
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    Frail or monolithic? A note on asclepiades' corpuscles.Roberto Polito - 2007 - Classical Quarterly 57 (01):314-.
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    I quattro libri sull'anima di Sorano e lo scritto "De anima" di Tertulliano.Roberto Polito - 1994 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 49 (3):423.
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    On the life of Asclepiades of Bithynia.Roberto Polito - 1999 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 119:48-66.
  9. Teofrasto e il 'bellissimo' disordine cosmico di Eraclito. A proposito di Metafisica, 7a a 10-15.Roberto Polito - 1997 - ACME: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano 50 (3):31-64.
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    Brancacci (A.) (ed.) Philosophy and Doxography in the Imperial Age. (Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere La Colombaria. Studi 228.) Pp. viii + 186. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2005. Paper, €20. ISBN: 978-88-222-5474-. [REVIEW]Roberto Polito - 2008 - The Classical Review 58 (1):93-95.