The triumph of science and the philosophy of thought postalessandrino focus on the inner life of man, represented the final victory of Socrates and Plato. In the second half of the fifth century a revolution took place in Greek philosophy who identified himself so completely

In ancient Greece, despite the many local varieties, there was a remarkable uniformity of taste and needs, more changeable over time and space. This is attested in various ways, the rapid spread of the Doric temple throughout the peninsula and

The Greek countryside was full of people but stripped from the architectural point of view. Except for occasional temple complexes at a certain distance from the city, piùà significant buildings were gathered in towns. With the passage of time,

The Athenians, in rebuilding their city after the Persian invasion, first restored the agora, omitting the Acropolis. The motivation for this choice lay in the need to restore the daily life on an orderly, or perhaps even in the scarcity of resources. Aristotele this

The history of Greek painting must be written on the basis of the testimonies of the ceramic, as well as on the basis of literary references. Since 1000 about, con Atene, began to appear top quality ceramic tiles, in large part, decorated only with

The origins of Rome and the early centuries of its history are still the subject of research that still fascinate generations of historians and experts on the subject of simple. The medieval culture and then the Renaissance humanist thought and saw in Rome

In Rome Literature handy as we know it did not find space immediately. We think that we must wait for the completion of the world-famous Twelve Tables of laws, between 451 and the 450 a.C. - Three hundred years after the

In a beautiful but underrated movies 1971 with Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman, Scipio Africanus also called, Cato (played by Gassman) holds a wonderful monologue in which admonishes the Romans because they do not high-minded: all that

Nel I sec. a.C. Romans studied and deepened, particularly, two philosophical doctrines that had been established after Aristotle, who were predominantly focused on the moral and practical: Epicureanism and Stoicism. L’epicureismo – greek dating back to Epicurus (341-270

On the life of Lucretius we have very little information and no clue of help can be found in more than 7000 version of De Rerum Nature. A testimony of St. Jerome (IV sec.), to be taken with caution, tells us that in 94 a.C. born