Carneades
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Carneades was a Greek philosopher, perhaps the most prominent head of the Skeptical Academy in Ancient Greece. He was born in Cyrene. By the time of his embassy to Rome in 155 BC, he was already a lea
Carneades, Cast of a copy after the statue exhibited on the agora of Athens, c. 150 BC, now lost
Carneades, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle, where he is called "Carmeides".
Hellebore
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Commonly known as hellebores, the Eurasian genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave
Carneades
…author Valerius Maximus, to whom we owe the last anecdote, tells us that Carneades, before discussing with Chrysippus, was wont to purge himself with hellebore, to have a sharper mind. Carneades is known as an Academic Skeptic. Academic Skeptics (so called because this was the type of skepticism taught in…
Illustration Helleborus niger 0
Swelling seed pods, Helleborus orientalis
Helleborus thibetanus
H. × hybridus in a garden