Friday, February 2, 2024
Grice e Numa
Numa was Rome's second king. A book was discovered.
'By Numa,' it read.
It wasn't, but the Romans trust an inscription.
It was very philosophical; therefore it wasn't long before The Roman Senate ordered that it should be burned.
While this was done - and ceremoniously, most Italians had already learned by heart all the indiscriminate teachings it contained.
The big polemic came later with Cicero, who didn't want Roman philosophy to have a start other than in Rome. He denied the school of Crotone, and much more strongly, any Etrurian influence via Numa.
Still...
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