# Event Details

- **Event Name**: THE TISSUE OF THE WORLD. The Ancient History of Sympathy
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: In this talk, I present the main arguments of the book I am completing that develops the first comprehensive history of the ancient concept of sumpatheia, from the emergence of the language of sympathy in fourth-century BCE Greek texts to the theory of cosmic sympathy developed by Plotinus in the third century CE. 

I show how authors working within the “inquiry into nature” and its later reception began to identify different sites identified as “sympathy” at different scales: in living beings (e.g., between the body and the soul); between natural and especially living beings (e.g., between members of the same kind); between the celestial and terrestrial realms and within the cosmos as a whole. 

I emphasize the importance of sympathy as a point of contact between different cultural traditions of cosmo-anthropology in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Developing the idea of a “perceptual–conceptual” field of ancient sympathy, I aim to trace how the emergence of different strands of sympathy transformed the way people in ancient Afro-Eurasia thought about the nature of community and Nature itself as a cause of community.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pisa-italy/the-tissue-of-the-world-the-ancient-history-of-sympathy/200029435941724
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Pisa, Italy
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 46, 56126 Pisa PI, Italia, Pisa, Italy

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is THE TISSUE OF THE WORLD. The Ancient History of Sympathy being held?
  - **A:** THE TISSUE OF THE WORLD. The Ancient History of Sympathy takes place on Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Online event, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 46, 56126 Pisa PI, Italia, Pisa, Italy.
- **Q**: Who is organizing THE TISSUE OF THE WORLD. The Ancient History of Sympathy?
  - **A:** THE TISSUE OF THE WORLD. The Ancient History of Sympathy is organized by Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance - CSMBR.

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