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However, many scholars argue that these maxims all originate from an original collection of sayings of Democritus, [1] [2] though others believe that there was a different little-known Democrates whose name became confused with the much better-known Democritus. [3] Thirty of the Golden Sayings are also found in Stobaeus attributed to Democritus ...
Democritus (/ d ɪ ˈ m ɒ k r ɪ t ə s /, dim-OCK-rit-əs; Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people"; c. 460 – c. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. [2] Democritus wrote extensively on a wide ...
Joannes Stobaeus (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ æ n ɪ s s t oʊ ˈ b iː ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος; fl. 5th-century AD), from Stobi in Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each.
wrote On Human Nature, of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus: Aeschines of Neapolis: 2nd/1st century BC Academic skeptic: shared the leadership of the Academy at Athens together with Charmadas and Clitomachus about 110 BC Aeschines of Sphettus: 5th/4th century BC Socratic: part of Socrates' circle and likely present at his death Aetius ...
Stobaeus cites a certain Sosiades as his source, but the identity of Sosiades is unknown, and it was once thought that this collection of maxims was of no great antiquity. [38] [39] In 1901, however, a parallel collection was discovered at Miletopolis in modern-day Turkey, inscribed on a stele dating from the 3rd or 4th century BC. The stele is ...
Democritus Meditating on the Seat of the Soul (Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme) is a statue by Léon-Alexandre Delhomme (1841–1895), exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868. It shows the Greek philosopher Democritus , his eyes fixed on a skull he holds in his hands.
According to Plutarch and Stobaeus, the term planeta was in use by the time of Anaximander, in the early sixth century BC. [1] The relative positions of the planets, which in the reckoning of Democritus included the Sun and Moon, was the subject of debate, as was their number; in Timaeus, Plato counts only the five still regarded as astronomical planets, excluding the Sun and Moon.
Protagoras was born in Abdera, Thrace, opposite the island of Thasos, around 490 BC. [1] [4] According to Aulus Gellius, he originally made his living as a porter, but one day he was seen by the philosopher Democritus carrying a load of small pieces of wood he had tied with a short cord.