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Anaximenes of Miletus
(fl. c.546 bc)The junior member of the Miletian school, and probably a pupil of Anaximander. His astronomy was relatively unsophisticated, but he is remembered for the doctrine that one primary ...
archive
A historical document. The plural form is also applied to the place where such documents are housed, e.g. a county record office.
atomism
A philosophical doctrine at least as old as Democritus, and plausibly viewed as an attempt to combine an a priori conviction of the unchangeable and immutable nature of the world with the variety and ...
change
The central problems for a philosophy of change are the relationship of change to time, and the relationship of both of them to us. Although change is a fundamental element of the perceived world, a ...
Cleanthes
(c.331–232 bc)Stoic philosopher, and second head of the Stoic school. Coming between Zeno of Citium, the founder, and Chrysippus, the ‘second founder’ of the Stoic school, Cleanthes has usually been ...
Cratylus
(5th c. bc)Greek philosopher, sometimes thought to have been a teacher of Plato before Socrates. He is famous for capping the doctrine of Heraclitus that you cannot step into the same river twice by ...
cult of statues
GreeceThe veneration of images of deities was well ‐established by the 7th cent. bc, when monumental temples to house a cult's principal statue became common; in the manufacture of colossal ...
Diogenes Laertius
(? 3rd c. ad)Greek biographer. Diogenes is not a serious philosopher, but his book Lives of Eminent Philosophers is a major biographical source for all classical Greek and Roman philosophers until ...
etymology
The study of the origins and development of words and their meanings. [From Greek etymos true + logos a word]
fate
A fate worse than death rape; the term is recorded from the early 19th century, although earlier in the mid 17th century Dorothy Osborne in a letter refers to ‘the Roman courage, when they killed ...
fire
One of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy and in astrology (considered essential to the nature of the signs Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius).fire and brimstone torment in hell; often ...
flux
Everything is in flux according to Heraclitus, who is reputed to have said that ‘everything flows’, and that ‘you cannot step into the same river twice’. The idea, in Plato's ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844–1889) British Catholic priest and poetPoems [edited (by) Robert Bridges] (1918) PoetryPoems: Second Edition, with Additional Poems [edited (by) Charles Williams] (1930) PoetryPoems [edited (by) ...
Heraclitus Quick reference
Martha C. Nussbaum
Who's Who in the Classical World
(fl. c.500 bc),
son of Bloson of Ephesus. Of aristocratic birth, he may have surrendered the (honorific) kingship voluntarily to his brother. He is said to have compiled a book ...
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Heraclitus (c.540–c.480bce) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
(c.540–c.480
philosopher. Little is known about Heraclitus’ life, but he was a native of Ephesus and
Heraclitus (c.536–c.470 bc) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
b. Ephesus, Asia Minor. He believed that the outward, unchanging face of the universe masked a dynamic equilibrium in
Heraclitus Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
(c.500 bc),
Greek philosopher. He believed that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion, everything being in a (harmonious) process of constant ...
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Richard L. Gregory
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
(c.540–c.480
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher, born at Ephesus; he founded a school in the Ionian tradition. Fragments exist of his ...
Heraclitus (1) (c.500 bc) Reference library
Martha C. Nussbaum and Malcolm Schofield
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
son of Bloson of Ephesus. Of aristocratic birth, he may have surrendered the (honorific) *kingship voluntarily to his brother. He is said to have compiled a book and deposited it in the ...
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E. L. Hussey
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
(fl.
c.500 bc).
Pre-Socratic philosopher. Nothing is known of his life (the ancient ‘biographies’ are fiction). There is no sign that he ever left his native city, ...
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