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Grice e Clinia: la diaspora di Crotone -- Roma – filosofia italiana -- Luigi Speranza (Taranto).
Filosofo italiano. The information about Clinia is confusing, but running
through it all is the constnt theme that he was a Pythagorean. Iamblicus di
Calcide associates him with both Taranto and Heraclea. Clinia and Amiclo are
said to have prevailed upon Plato not to burn the works of Democrito di Abdera.
Iamblico mentions Clinia in an illustration of Pythagorean friendship, claiming
he went to the financial aid of Proro di Cirene at considerable cost and risk
to himself. Although neither story is possible to date with any precision, if
both are true, Clinias would appear to have lived a very long time. A confusion
of two people with the same name is perhaps more likely.
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