![]() ![]() Even for specialists, the Greek text is difficult, with problems in the manuscripts and many sequences that make little sense. ![]() Hence he and Plato were jealous of each other, as will be stated in the chapter on Plato. For many of us, access to Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers has been predominantly through the 1925 translation by R. By the sweetness of his narrative he earned the name of the Attic Muse. There is a tradition that he made Thucydides famous by publishing his history, which was unknown, and which he might have appropriated to his own use. The Constitutions of Athens and Sparta.ĭemetrius of Magnesia denies that the last of these works is by Xenophon. Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674992047 Number of pages: 720. The Anabasis, with a preface to each separateīook but not one to the whole work. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diogenes Laertius is in two volumes. He wrote some forty books in all, though the division into books is not always the same, namely: of Sicyon, Megara, Samos, Naxos, Argolis, Epirus, Thessaly, abounded in the Alexandrian age.Pious, fond of sacrificing, and an expert in augury from the victims and he made Socrates his exact model. ![]() 2905) to have written a local history of Miletus. cAlthough disguised as Leandrius, the writer meant is.He probably attributes the action to Demetrius as well. 4 He attributes this dating to Demetrius of Phalerum. bOr in prose: “Offspring of Miletus, do you ask PhoebusĬoncerning the tripod? Whoso in wisdom is of all the first, 21 Diogenes Laertius says that a twenty-year old Anaxagoras started to philosophize ( ) in Athens at the time of the archon Callias (456 BCE).c It is that Bathycles, an Arcadian, left at his death a bowl with the solemn injunction that it “should be given to him who had done most good by his wisdom.” So it was given to Thales, went the round of all the sages, and came back to Thales again. Callimachus in his Iambics has a different version of the story, which he took from Maeandrius of Miletus. Who shall possess the tripod? Thus replies Apollo: “Whosoever is most wise.” bĪccordingly they give it to Thales, and he to another, and so on till it comes to Solon, who, with the remark that the god was the most wise, sent it off to Delphi. Finally the Milesians referred the question to Delphi, and the god gave an oracle in this form a: Certain Ionian youths having purchased of the Milesian fishermen their catch of fish, a dispute arose over the tripod which had formed part of the catch. The well-known story of the tripod found by the fishermen and sent by the people of Miletus to all the Wise Men in succession runs as follows. He lived, as Minyas relates, with Thrasybulus, the tyrant of Miletus. Hieronymus informs us that he measured the height of the pyramids by the shadow they cast, taking the observation at the hour when our shadow is of the same length as ourselves. He had no instructor, except that he went to Egypt and spent some time with the priests there. The seasons of the year and divided it into 365 days. 381 When Diogenes of Sinope was sold as a slave, he endured it most nobly. Loeb Classical Library, volume 257 (1932), p. ![]() Cohoon, Loeb Classical Library, volume 257 (1932), p. Man ved intet om hans liv men hans bog Fremragende filosoffers liv er en af de allervigtigste kilder til viden om græsk filosofi. Τινα Ἀρκάδα φιάλην καταλιπεῖν καὶ ἐπισκῆψαι 2§1 Diogenes Laertius says that a twenty-year old Anaxagoras started to philosophize ( ) in Athens at the time of the archon Callias (456 BCE). 206 BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |