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Ricordo di Manlio Sgalambro

Italy mourns Manlio Sgalambro, Sicilian philosopher and writer, author of many great songs, including this one. “Che io debba essere governato: ecco da dove inizia lo scandalo della politica.” “Penso, dunque solo.” Un personale ricordo: il trattato dell’empietà resta summa teologica, sì, certo: ma enfia di gesuitismo spagnolo come l’opus. Parlai lui dell’altro opus, dei manoscritti di…

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[archaicwonder]

Silver tetradrachm from Leontini, Sicily c. 430-425 BC

This coins shows the head of Apollo left, wearing a laurel wreath. On the reverse, the head of a roaring lion right; LE-O-N-TI-N-ON around; three barley grains above, to left, and below; leaf behind.

Leontini was ancient Greek town of southeastern Sicily, 22 miles northwest of Syracuse. Originally held by the Sicels (Siculi), its command of the fertile plain on the north made it an attractive site to the Chalcidians from Naxos, who colonized it in 729 BC. Early in the 5th century Hippocrates of Gela subjugated the city, and in 476 BC, Hieron of Syracuse, having destroyed the towns of Catana and Naxos, relocated their inhabitants in Leontini. Twice the appeals of Leontini for aid led to unsuccessful Athenian expeditions into Sicily: in 427 BC, following a Syracusan attack on the city, and in 415 BC, when its democrats had been expelled by Syracuse-supported oligarchs. Marcus Claudius Marcellus stormed Leontini in 214 BC, as did the Muslims in AD 846–847. It was almost totally ruined by the earthquake of 1693.

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The Tenets of Nihilism as theorized by Gorgias of Leontini

Found in On Nature, or the Nonexistent: 1. Nothing exists 2. If anything did exist we could never know it 3. If by chance we should come to know it, it would remain a secret because we could not communicate it to others Your daily dose of pessimism complements of the Sophists.