GRICE E POLLIO: CONTRO IL LIZIO -- ROMA -- FILOSOFIA ITALIANA -- LUIGI SPERANZA

 

Grice e Pollio: contro il lizio – Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. He plays a leading role in Rome’s political and cultural life. He is a friend of both VIRGILIO (si veda) and ORAZIO (si veda), and wrote a history of the civil war. He is NOT a lizio, and his most famous tract he entitles, “Contra Aristotelem”. He rather follows the philosophy of Musonio RUFO (si veda), whom he deems superior to ‘that ginnasio where an over-rated Stagirite used to ramble with friends.’ Historians debate this, since Musonio Rufo apparently was born well after Pollio dies – but, as Kunstermann says, ‘there is no obvious earlier candidate.’ Hohlertter suggests that the work was written by a LATER Pollio – ‘most likely Pollio Valerio’. Gaio Asinio Pollio