41. Posidonius posidonius , c.135–c.51 BC, Greek Stoic philosopher, b. Apamea, Syria. He settledin rhodes after extensive travels. Noted for his learning, posidonius gave http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839862.html

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42. Posidonius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 He settled in rhodes after extensive travels. Noted for his learning, Posidoniusgave new life to Stoicism by fortifying it with contemporary learning. http://www.bartleby.com/65/po/Posidoni.html

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43. Stoicism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Stoics in the following period was Panaetius of rhodes, who in the 2d cent . He and his pupil posidonius sought to lessen the attacks of critics by http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/Stoicism.html

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44. History Of Mathematics: Greece posidonius (c. 135c. 51); Zeno of Sidon (c. 79 BCE); Geminus of rhodes (c.77 BCE); Cleomedes (c. 40? BCE); Heron of Alexandria (fl. c. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/greece.html

Greece Cities Abdera: Democritus Alexandria : Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Eratosthenes, Euclid , Hypatia, Hypsicles, Heron, Menelaus, Pappus, Ptolemy, Theon Amisus: Dionysodorus Antinopolis: Serenus Apameia: Posidonius Athens: Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Socrates, Theaetetus Byzantium (Constantinople): Philon, Proclus Chalcedon: Proclus, Xenocrates Chalcis: Iamblichus Chios: Hippocrates, Oenopides Clazomenae: Anaxagoras Cnidus: Eudoxus Croton: Philolaus, Pythagoras Cyrene: Eratosthenes, Nicoteles, Synesius, Theodorus Cyzicus: Callippus Elea: Parmenides, Zeno Elis: Hippias Gerasa: Nichmachus Larissa: Dominus Miletus: Anaximander, Anaximenes, Isidorus, Thales Nicaea: Hipparchus, Sporus, Theodosius Paros: Thymaridas Perga: Apollonius Pergamum: Apollonius Rhodes: Eudemus, Geminus, Posidonius Rome: Boethius Samos: Aristarchus, Conon, Pythagoras Smyrna: Theon Stagira: Aristotle Syene: Eratosthenes Syracuse: Archimedes Tarentum: Archytas, Pythagoras Thasos: Leodamas Tyre: Marinus, Porphyrius Mathematicians Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550)

45. Imago Mundi - Posidonius. rhodes était de sept degrés Sans doute, posidonius revient au stoïcisme, en acceptant la divination et http://www.cosmovisions.com/Posidonius.htm

Les gens Posidonius , philosophe et Tusc De Natura Deorum , le De Fato , etc. Strabon Galien N. D. de 365 jours 1/4, explique les phases de la Lune par l'action des astres. L'astronomie de Posidonius Strabon et Pline [180 000 stades, selon Bouillet une distance de 2 millions de stades au Soleil une distance de 500 millions. des astres. (Hoefer, 1873). A l'imitation d' scolastiques Gerbert . En philosophie et de son contemporain Antiochus d'Ascalon morale Aristote Platon un homme divin (Proclus in Parm ., VI., IV, 25). Il estime Pythagore nous thumos epithumia epithymia ; les animaux ont, en outre, le thymos platonisme et le Divination, sur le Destin sur la Nature des Dieux, Posidonii Rhodii reliquiae, accedit Wytlenbachii annotatio Fragm. hist. Graec .; Paris, 1819, p. 215). Ses fragments historiques se trouvent dans le t. III des de la collection Didot. Delambre Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne . - Ed. Zeller, Die Philos. der Griechen , IV. pp..572 et suiv. - A. Dyroff, Die Etik der atten sto a; Berlin, 1897. - Thiaucourt, ; Paris, 1885. A B C D ... Z

46. Imago Mundi - Panétius De Rhodes. Translate this page les plus célèbres sont QM Scevola, Sextus Pompée, les Balbus, Mnésarque, sonsuccesseur à Athènes, Démétrius de Bithynie, Hécaton, posidonius de rhodes. http://www.cosmovisions.com/Panetius.htm

Les gens Panaetius , disciple des et Antipater sur le Devoir , dont s'est beaucoup servi pour le De officiis De officiis ministrorum de Saint Ambroise sur les sectes philosophiques sur la mantique , que rappelle en certains endroits le De divinatione sur la politique sur la Providence De natura Deorum , les Balbus Posidonius de Rhodes qui traite des rapports de Dieu et de l'humain. Puis il se recommande de Platon et d' Aristote , de , de pour s'attacher au Ep Plotin romain. (F. Picavet). - Van Lynden, De Panaetio Rhodio , Leyde, 1802. - Ed. Zeller, Die Philosophie der Griechen , IV, p. 500 et Suiv. - Thiaucourt, , Paris, 1885. - L. Stein, Die Psychologie, die Erkenntnistheorie der Stoa ; Berlin 1886-86.- Schmeckel, Die Philosophie der mittlere Stoa ; Berlin, 1892. A B C D ... Z

47. PLS posidonius and Plato s Timaeus Off to rhodes and Back to Plato? , ClassicalQuarterly 47 (1997) 455476. Human Bonding and Oikeiôsis in Roman Stoicism , http://www.nd.edu/~pls/faculty/Reydams-Schils.html

Home Page Information Alumni Information Awards ... E-mail The Program of Liberal Studies Gretchen Reydams-Schils Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae "Every era has to start this task afresh: learning to read and reread 'old truths.' We pass our lives in 'reading,'... but we no longer know how to read, that is to stop, to free ourselves from our concerns, to return to ourselves, to leave aside our quest for subtlety and originality, to meditate calmly, to ruminate, to let the texts speak to us. It is a spiritual exercise, one of the most difficult: 'People,' said Goethe, 'do not realize how much time and effort it takes to learn to read. It took me eighty years, and I am not even certain whether I have succeeded.'" From Pierre Hadot Spiritual Exercises , my translation; the Goethe quote is from his Conversations with Eckermann January 25, 1830. Gretchen Reydams-Schils is Associate-Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her special area of interest is in Ancient Philosophy, more specifically Stoicism and the later Platonists. She has also done work on Gender Studies and European Union policies regarding the humanities, culture and education. Her teaching experience includes one semester of teaching at a Catholic seminary in Arusha, Tanzania, and an upcoming graduate seminar on the reception of Plato's

48. Anciens P rhodes. Cf. EPU III . également posidonius Rhodius et hist. Élève de Panétius de rhodes. http://callimac.vjf.cnrs.fr/RSPA/Anciens/Anciens_P.html

Textes Auteurs modernes Accueil A ... Z Auteurs anciens P Auteurs anciens Qualificatifs et commentaires Datation Paeonius Atheniensis megar.. - TLG Pamphila Epidauria hist. Pamphilus Panacaeus pythag. Panaetius Rhodius -185 ca - -105 ca Panthoides Atheniensis Papyri Herculanenses Paraebates Parmenides Eleaticus ... Parmeniscus, vel Parmiscus, Metapontinus pythag. Paron Pasicles Thebanus, Atheniensis Pasiphon Eretrius socrat. Pausimachus Milesius Pempelus Periander Corinthius phil.. - Voir aussi Septem sapientes Perictione Persaeus Citieus Petron Himeraeus Phaedo Elidensis ... Phaedondes socrat. Phaedrus socrat. Phaedrus Epicureus -140 ca - 70 Phaenias (vel Phanias) Eresius Pherecydes Atheniensis Pherecydes Syrius Philippus Megarensis, Atheniensis Philippus Opontius -418 ca. - -340 ca. Philiscus Aeginensis Philo Atheniensis Philo Larissaeus -144 ca - -80 ca Philodemus (pseudo) epic. Philodemus Gadarensis -110 ca - -40 ca Philolaus Crotoniensis, vel Tarentinus -470 ca - -390 ca Philonides Syrius Philostratus Atheniensis 165 ca - 244/249 Phintias pythag.. - = pseudo-Phyntys ? Phintys Phrasidemus Atheniensis Plato plat.

49. Euclid - Books I-IX it is certain that another work of Heron s, the Definitions, owes somethingto posidonius of Apamea or rhodes, Cicero s teacher (13551 BC). http://www.headmap.org/unlearn/euclid/before/o-commentators.htm

@import url(../../../ul-css/3-col-nn4-new-main.css); the teS Euclids elements BOOKS I-IX translated by T.L. Heath BACKGROUND euclid and the traditions about him. euclid's other works. greek commentators on the elements ... modern algebraic interpretations [see also: equations - Diophantus; conics - Appolonius] HEADMAP home unlearning EUCLID BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV ... BOOK IX OVERVIEW book 1, triangles book 2, quadratics books 3 and 4, circles book 5, theory of proportion book 6, geometry and the theory of proportion books 7, 8 and 9 ,number theory GEOMETRICAL ALGEBRA book II identities gemetrical solution of quadratics application of areas transformation of areas ... Book V notes Book VII notes Book VIII notes Book IX notes [p. 19] CHAPTER III. GREEK COMMENTATORS ON THE ELEMENTS OTHER THAN PROCLUS. That there was no lack of commentaries on the Elements before the time of Proclus is evident from the terms in which Proclus refers to them; and he leaves us in equally little doubt as to the value which, in his opinion, the generality of them possessed. Thus he says in one place (at the end of his second prologue) “Before making a beginning with the investigation of details, I warn those who may read me not to expect from me the things which have been dinned into our ears

50. Orion Posidonius posidonius, the Stoic philosopher and polymath of Apamea and rhodes, one of themost dominant intellectual figures in the first half of the first century http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1998a/msg00383.html

Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next ... Thread Index orion Posidonius To orion@mscc.huji.ac.il Subject : orion Posidonius From goranson@duke.edu Date : Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc goranson@duke.edu Reply-To orion@mscc.huji.ac.il Prev by Date: Re: SV: SV: orion Qumran habitation dates Next by Date: Prev by thread: orion Photos from 3rd Symposium Next by thread: orion Epiphanius, etc. Index(es): Date Thread

51. Stoicism: Definition And Much More From Answers.com He and his pupil posidonius sought to lessen the attacks of critics by mingling with Middle Stoa Panaetius of rhodes (185–109 BCE) posidonius of Apamea http://www.answers.com/topic/stoicism

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Literature WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping stoicism Dictionary sto·i·cism stō ĭ-sĭz əm n. Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness. Stoicism The doctrines or philosophy of the Stoics. Encyclopedia Stoicism stō ĭsĭzəm ) , school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (in Cyprus) c.300 B.C. The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile [Gr.,=painted porch], at Athens, a colonnade near the Agora, to hear their master Zeno lecture. He had studied with Crates the Cynic, and his own teaching included the Cynic adaptation of the Socratic ideals of virtue, endurance, and self-sufficiency. He added to them the explanation of the physical universe given by Heraclitus and something of the logic of Aristotle. The development and organization of Zeno's doctrines into a great system of metaphysics was the work of Chrysippus (c.280–207 B.C.

52. Towards A Charter For A New Global Philosophy join Cicero in rhodes at the feet of his friend and teacher posidonius. For posidonius number, true number, unifies. It is the heart and soul of the http://www.innerexplorations.com/simpletext/global.htm

Towards a Charter for a New Global Philosophy by James Cowan It is important to allegorize occasionally. Modernism, as we know, does not like taking this path towards insight or revelation. Scientific rationalism has taught us to be wary of cloaking concepts in that coat of many colors known as the image. Even today the poet finds himself reduced to abstraction, shunning the metaphor, the adjective or the simile as being too potent a brew. After all, the image can be inebriating. Trapped in psychological thinking however he sometimes cries out in pain, longing to see himself once again wearing the bright garb of the muse, his every gesture the sum of language raised to its highest power. In our hearts we sympathize with his predicament. We know, as Orpheus did, that truth can never be silenced, even when its head is carried off to a remote island where prophecy is still sanctioned. What is global must therefore be determined by its root in the sphere, in roundness, in the lack of relativity or definition. These are qualities that confound us since they defy our need for exactitude. Yet the sphere exists. For Parmenides, that keen old man from Elea in Magna Graecia, the sphere signifies completeness, and a non-necessity to reach out indefinitely into empty space. All is equally real in every direction, is corporeal, continuous, eternal and immovable. It is what the ancients called a plenum

53. INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' & TRANSLATORS' CENTER OF RHODES. GREECE Therefore, after the Telchines, the seven Heliades inhabited rhodes. most famous students were Ekaton the Rhodian, posidonius from Apamia (135151 AD. http://www.literarycentre.gr/english/rhodes/rhodeshistory.html

Mythology In the 7th Olympic Hymn, dedicated to the Rhodian Olympic champion Diagoras, Pindar preserves the legend concerning the rise of Rhodes from the depths of the Aegean: the gods had shared the land, but they forgot to give Helios a share, since he was absent on his daily trip. Although Zeus was ready to re-share the lots, Helios prevented him because he saw rising from the foaming sea a rich and beautiful land, which he asked to be given to him as his lot. Zeus then invited the golden veiled Lachesi to give the vow that the new land would be the lot of Helios. A little prior to the Trojan expedition, Tliptolemos, the son of Hercules, was the king of Rhodes. He participated in this pan-Hellenic expedition with nine ships, as we read in the second rhapsody of the Iliad. As is the case with all the ancient cosmogonic myths, so it is with the ancient mythology referring to Rhodes, which explains and narrates in a poetical way the geology and the pre-history of the island. Antiquity From Homer we learn that during antiquity there were three cities on Rhodes: Lindos, Ialysos and Kamiros. These cities, which were already flourishing even from post-Minoan times, continued to flourish during the Mycenaean period, as is evident from the necropolis of Kamiros and Ialysos. A new period of prosperity is ushered in after the arrival of the Doric population from Argos, which occurred during the 11th century BC. The Doric domination over the population (in terms of language, religion and customs), encompasses Rhodes into the great Doric family. The three cities of Rhodes, together with Kos, Knidos and Halicarnassus constitute the Doric hexapolis, an amphictyony of the Dorian colonists of Asia Minor. Their religious centre was the temple of Triopios Apollo, located on the peninsula of Knidos.

54. Astrology In The Roman World 200 B.C. - 500 A.D. posidonius taught at his school on the Island of rhodes where among his pupilswas the first major Roman astrologer, Nigidius Figulus. http://www.nickcampion.com/nc/history/roman.htm

Site Topics Home Free Horoscopes Astro-Live-Link Books Mundane Science Planets Education Question Links Site Search Contact Roman Astrology Extract taken from "An Introduction to the History of Astrology" © Nick Campion An Introduction to the History of Astrology Origins of Astrology Mesopotamia Ancient Greece ... China Rome Astrology in the Roman World 200 B.C. - 500 A.D. Divination had long been a part of the Italian life and religion before the importation of astrology to Rome in the 2nd century B.C. When the Romans discovered astrology some 1,400 years after the Venus Tablet of Amisaduqa, they took to it wholeheartedly and incorporated it into every aspect of their lives from religion to politics to day to day affairs. Astrology appealed to the masses on the level of fortune telling, and it is perhaps in Rome that astrology first developed its ‘fair-ground fortune teller’ side, as distinct from its religious and mystical uses. Astrology appealed to the priests as the perfect addition to the worship of planetary deities, and it accorded well with the philosophy of the intellectuals, already impressed by the fatalist Stoicism with its belief in ever recurrent cycles. The Romans took astrology and incorporated it into their religion, but astrologers were never too popular with the authorities. Of the philosophical exponents of astrology the Pythagoreans were banned from Rome, although the Stoics were acceptable on account of their less subversive appearance.

55. Cicero, De Natura Deorum (On The Nature Of The Gods) Introduction: The Online Li and the Academic Antiochus, and in the following year under posidonius theStoic in rhodes. posidonius, who died about 50 bc, was a disciple of his. http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Cicero0070/NatureOfGods/HTMLs/0040_Pt01_Intro.h

THE ONLINE LIBRARY OF LIBERTY CLASSICS IN THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO ON THE NATURE OF THE GODS INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS BROOKS Updated: May 25, 2004 Return to the Introduction to Cicero and the detailed Table of Contents EDITION USED Marci Tullii Ciceronis, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), trans. Francis Brooks (London: Methuen, 1896). TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PREFACE The text made use of in this translation is that of the Rev. J. B. Mayor in the Cambridge University Press. Words bracketed in that text have not been translated. In some few cases they have been indicated in a footnote. De Natura are made by means of books and chapters. INTRODUCTION death occurred in 43 b.c., De Natura It is of this latter school that Cicero in i., 3 professes himself an adherent. Its original founder was Plato, but in its later development it had come to neglect the positive side of his teaching, and to base itself solely upon the negative dialectic which always played so important a part in his system. By means of this weapon Carneades (213-129 b.c.

56. Apollonius - BibleWiki Follower of posidonius. It was at rhodes, no doubt, that Apollonius appropriatedthe Judæophobic ideas of the Syrian stoic posidonius (135–51 BC), http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/Apollonius

Apollonius From BibleWiki Greek rhetorician and anti-Jewish writer; flourishedin the first century B.C. He is usually, but not always, designated by the name of his father, Molon. He was called by his patronymic mainly to distinguish him from his somewhat older contemporary Apollonius Malachos. Apollonius Molon was still praised as a distinguished master of the art of speech about the year 75 B.C. Josephus, however, concerns himself with him simply as one of the most prominent and most pernicious anti-Jewish writers. edit Follower of Posidonius. et seq. l.c. l.c. ii. 2). In connection with the exodus, Apollonius gave circulation to the malicious fable that the Jews had been expelled from Egypt owing to a shameful malady from which they suffered, while he took occasion to blacken the character of Moses also and to belittle his law, characterizing the lawgiver of the Jews as a sorcerer and his work as devoid of all moral worth. Besides, he heaped many unjust charges upon the Jews, reproaching them for not worshiping the same gods as the other peoples ( l.c.

57. The Round Earth And Christopher Columbus from the island of rhodes further north (near the southwestern tip of Turkey) . Another look at Eratosthenes and posidonius Determinations of the http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Scolumb.htm

Site Map Lesson plan (8) The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus Replica of the flagship of Columbus, sailing past the shuttle launch pad on Cape Canaveral. Today it is well known that the Earth is a sphere, or very close to one (its equator bulges out a bit because of the Earth's rotation). When Christopher Columbus proposed to reach India by sailing west from Spain, he too knew that the Earth was round. India was the source of precious spices and other rare goods, but reaching it by sailing east was difficult, because Africa blocked the way. On a round globe, however, it should also be possible to reach India by sailing west, and this Columbus proposed to do (he wasn't the first one to suggest thissee below). Sometimes the claim is made that those who opposed Columbus thought the Earth was flat, but that wasn't the case at all. Even in ancient times sailors knew that the Earth was round and scientists not only suspected it was a sphere, but even estimated its size. If you stand on the seashore and watch a ship sailing away, it will gradually disappear from view. But the reason cannot be the distance: if a hill or tower are nearby, and you climb to the top after the ship has completely disappeared, it becomes visible again. Furthermore, if on the shore you watch carefully the way the ship disappears from view, you will notice that the hull vanishes first, while the masts and sails (or the bridge and smokestack) disappear last. It is as if the ship was dropping behind a hill, which in a way is

58. De Officiis Ad Marcum Filium M. Tulli Ciceronis Libri Tres And while Antiochus, the eclectic Academician of Athens, and posidonius, theeclectic Stoic of rhodes, seem to have had the strongest influence upon him, http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/SAL/texts/latin/classical/cicero/d

De Officiis Ad Marcum Filium M. Tulli Ciceronis Libri Tres Introduction Since the Loeb introduction is an excellent and comprehensive look at the text, its purpose, and philosophy's role for the ordinary Roman, it is wholly reproduced here from the 1913 Loeb, with some minor changes for specificity and clarification purposes. In the de Officiis we have, save for the latter Philippics, the great orator's last contribution to literature. The last, sad troubled years of his busy life could not be given to his profession; and he turned his never-resting thoughts to the second love of his student days and made Greek philosophy a possibility for Roman readers. The senate had been abolished; the courts had been closed. His occupation was gone; but Cicero could not surrender himself to idleness. In those days of distraction (46-43 B.C.) he produced for publication almost as much as in all his years of active life. The liberators had been able to remove the tyrant, but they could not restore the republic. Cicero's own life was in danger from the fury of mad Antony and he left Rome about the end of March, 44 B.C. He dared not even stop permanently in any one of his various country estates, but, wretched, wandered from one of his villas to another nearly all the summer and autumn through. He would not suffer himself to become a prey to his overwhelming sorrow at the death of the republic and the final crushing of the hopes that had risen with Caesar's downfall, but worked at the highest tension on his philosophical studies.

59. Astrology At RIN.ru. History. Astrology In The Roman World 200 B.C.-500 A.D. For the intellectual Romans posidonius the Stoic (13551 BC), posidonius taughtat his school on the Island of rhodes where among his pupils was the http://astro.rin.ru/eng/htmls/history/astro8-1.html

Your sign of horoscope is getCookie('ezodiac') Russian Astrologer on-line !new History ... Astro Forum Search: Article Glossary document.write('Mail system 15Mb! '); document.write(''); @boxmail.biz document.write('Create site Free Hosting Game server '); Registration Your name Your e-mail Your sign Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Sex: M F Astrology History Astrology in the Roman World 200 B.C.-500 A.D. Divination had long been a part of the Italian life and religion before the importation of astrology to Rome in the 2nd century B.C. When the Romans discovered astrology some 1,400 years after the Venus Tablet of Amisaduqa, they took to it wholeheartedly and incorporated it into every aspect of their lives from religion to politics to day-to-day affairs. Astrology appealed to the masses on the level of fortune telling, and it is perhaps in Rome that astrology first developed its "fair-ground fortune teller" side, as distinct from its religious and mystical uses. Astrology appealed to the priests as the perfect addition to the worship of planetary deities, and it accorded well with the philosophy of the intellectuals, already impressed by the fatalist Stoicism with its belief in ever-recurrent cycles. The Romans took astrology and incorporated it into their religion, but astrologers were never too popular with the authorities. Of the philosophical exponents of astrology, the Pythagoreans were banned from Rome, although the Stoics were acceptable on account of their less subversive appearance.

60. 272 Words posidonius of Apamea probably the greatest Stoic philosopher of the 1st Century 135 BC 50 BC) on the island of rhodes, where he studied and taught. http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/272/272Glossary.htm

aer: the arche , or ultimate stuff of reality, according to Anaximenes , was aer , a kind of light mist or vapour, infinite in extent, which formed the different materials of the visible world by processes of condensation or evaporation. aether: the light, bright form of matter which formed the sky or heavens, according to many Greek thinkers. Lighter and finer than ordinary air, it "naturally" gravitated towards the heavenly regions. Akrasia : literally, "lack of strength", "weakness". Normally used for moral weakness, i.e. for cases when a person believes they know what is right, but do not act on that belief. Anaxagoras: originally from Clazomenae on the Ionian coast of what is now Turkey, north of Ephesus, Anaxagoras moved to Athens in the mid-fifth century, where he became a close friend of the Athenian statesman Pericles, and did most of his philosophical work. In the late 430s he was tried for impiety, and though acquitted, left Athens for Lampsacus, where he died soon after. Anaximander (610-545 B.C.?): the second of the three so-called "Milesian" philosophers, remembered by later tradition as the earliest Greek philosophers. The evidence describes him as a pupil of Thales, which may be true, but his ideas are much more sophisticated and abstract.

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