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The Stoa as a Microcosm. Did the Painted Porch of Athens Influence Zeno’s Theology?

This article presents a novel speculative interpretation of a significant aspect of Zeno of Citium’s life as well as his Stoic philosophy, which is often acknowledged in scholarship but seldom explained. According to Diogenes Laertius, Zeno – the founder of Stoicism – led his philosophical inquiries under the Painted Porch or Στοὰ Ποικίλη in Athens: an open colonnade adorned with four paintings celebrating Athenian victories over mythical and historical foes. Through an examination of this lo...

The Resilience and Boomerang Effect of Chocolate: A Product’s Globalization and Commodification

In the last 30 years historians have become increasingly interested in understanding how changes in patterns of consumption reproduced themselves as well as to what degree they acted as agents of social change. Enriched by interdisciplinary contributions, the history of consumption constitutes one of the privileged terrains where different historiographies meet in the attempt to reconcile structure and agency, the individual and the social, and local and global dimensions in order to explain ...

Circulation of knowledge, competing therapies and exotic drugs

Between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, the small Italian states had been progressively excluded from the global trading networks. However, in Italian cities, apothecaries stood at the forefront of medical innovation. This chapter introduces the forms of discursive and material circulation of sarsaparilla and China root in eighteenth-century Italian states – focusing on Turin – to address the forms of circulation and dissemination of information on the properties and uses of the...

Alexis Everett Frye y la experiencia de los maestros cubanos en Harvard en el año 1900