As we drove there, I could easily generate a mental simulacrum of its smell, a concentrated essence of antiquity, brass polish, school shoes, and institutional gravity.
As Nehamas (1999, 99) puts it, "with the exception of the Epicureans, every philosophical school in antiquity, whatever its orientation, saw in him either its actual founder or the type of person to whom its adherents were to aspire".
He thus identifies a clear link from the realized persons of high antiquity to the great schools of Chinese philosophy through the methods and theories attributed to the Yellow Emperor.
By the 1930s, once museums could afford real antiquities and art schools had lost interest in classical precedents, the casts ended up in warehouses or even dumped in ponds.
Todd is an expensive preparatory school of considerable antiquity, now run on severely progressive lines.
She taught us Philosophy, Art and Sciences of antiquity when we studied at school and, with them, the most complex of all human activities: the art and science of politics.
The continuity between the Neoplatonic schools of late Antiquity, with their typical approach to the Aristotelian corpus (Hadot 1991), is best exemplified by Sergius of Resh'ayna (d. 536), a physician who held a prominent position in the Syriac Church (Hugonnard-Roche 2001, 2004).
The Manuductio starts with a history of the most important philosophical schools which existed in antiquity, followed by a discussion of the origin and succession of the various Stoic schools, their different views on the definition and parts of philosophy.
But sentiment and antiquity cannot help to keep the schools running smoothly.
The Elegantiae linguae Latinae ("Elegances of the Latin Language"), printed in 1471, was the first textbook of Latin grammar to be written since late antiquity; it became highly popular in grammar schools all over Europe.
