Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Introduction: the Reinvention of the Ancient Greek Philosophers as Aphoristic Writers and Itinerant beggars in 17th-Century Painting 2 The True and Only Possession of the Philosopher: the Paper Turn of the Apophthegms "Omnia mea mecum porto", "Quaero hominem", and "Stand Out of My Light" 2.1 The Paper Turn of "Omnia mea mecum porto" 2.2 The Philosophers' Paper World and Its Enemies: Women 2.3 "Tempus tantum nostrum est": Protrepticus to Philosophy 2.4 Diogenes of Sinope: the Paper Turn of the Brusque Action Apophthegms "Hominem quaero" and "Stand Out of My Light"3 The Itinerant Philosophers as Collectors of Knowledge: Democritus, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Diogenes, and Euclides of Megara 3.1 Sheets of Paper from All Over the World: Democritus of Abdera 3.2 Annotations from the Underworld: Pythagoras 3.3 'Omnia mutantur' and 'Bis in eundem fluvium non potes intrare': Heraclitus 3.

4 The Desperate Search for the Man Who Speaks the Truth: Diogenes 3.5 Travesty for the Sake of Philosophy: Euclides of Megara4 Penitence and Meditatio mortis: the Greek Philosophers as Icons for Self-Reflection and Spiritual Self-Reformation 4.1 A New Hero of Christian Penitence: Heraclitus 4.2 Looking into the Mirror: Self-Cognition (γνθι σεαυτν) and the Acknowledgement of Ignorance (Socrates) 4.3 'Recognise Thy Inanity and Sinfulness': Democritus 4.4 The Philosophical Exercise of taciturnitas: Pythagoras and Democritus 4.5 Diogenes as an Icon for Self-Investigation, Self-Recognition, and Confession 4.6 Taking on the Colour of the Dead or Vera Philosophia est meditatio mortis: Socrates 4.

7 Training the Imagination: Zoology, Animal Anatomy, Archaeology, Hieroglyphica and Other New Dimensions of meditatio mortis in Salvator Rosa's Democritus Icons and Their Aftermath5 Epilogue: Haptic and Emphatic Aspects in the Philosophers' Treatment of Paper Bibliography Index Nominum.