The Philosophy of Ancient Greece

TIMELINE: Neoclassicism AND the Enlightenment (ART and HISTORY) 1748 Buried Roman city of Pompeii discovered. 1751 Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert publish first volumes of their Encyclopédie. 1752 Pope Benedict XIV issues brief condemning the philosophes, including philosophers Diderot, Charles de Secondat, and Baron de Montesquieu. Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning … ................
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