Nigidius; Print; Even Varro; though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism; requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republic to the "spirit-rapping and tablemoving" that fascinated "men of the highest rank and greatest learning" in the Victorian era.