The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their worksFairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy
The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their works
Fairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy, Ancient
Being, 91 f., 108, 124 f., 173, 243;
not moved, 95;
not generated, 95;
not divided, 95, 126
Bias, 51
Blood, seat of thought, 214, 234
Blyson, 23
Body, the tomb of the soul, 133, 214;
subject to change, 146;
infinitely divisible, 146
Breathing, Empedokles on, 195, 227
Cause, active, 22
Change, constant, 35, 165;
impossibility of, 127, 129
Chariot of Parmenides, 87
Chrysippos, 60
Chthonie, 207
Cicero, 7, 16, 21, 108, 151, 233
Circles of the heavens, 99
Clouds, 19, 256
Comets, 84, 255
Community of gods and men, 133
Condensation of matter, 9, 21, 60 f., 125
Counter-earth, 136, 148
Cube, 152 f.
Cycles of the universe, 179, 216
Darkness as first principle, 99
Day and night, 89
Death, 45, 53, 229
Decad, 144, 152
Delphi, oracle at, 27
Demokritos, 18, 33, 248, 250, 254
Destruction of things, 10, 13, 14, 82, 93 f., 119, 124, 165, 222,
245
Diodoros, 153
Diogenes Laertios, 63, 64, 120
Discord, 39
Divisibility of matter, infinite, 115
Dyad, 144, 152
Earth, the, 31, 67 f., 83;
a heavenly body, 13;
form of, 13, 14, 22, 106;
is infinite, 78;
once covered by the sea, 82;
rests on water, 3, 4;
rests on air, 20;
is sinking into the sea, 83
Earthquakes, 7, 18, 22, 261
Eclipses, 7, 15, 63, 84, 148
Ecliptic, 6
Egyptian wisdom, 154
Eleatic school, 64 f.;
unity, 79, 103, 105, 119
Elements, 41, 161, 167, 183, 221, 224;
imperishable, 169, 230;
indivisible, 142;
motion of, 215;
separation of, 12
Embryo, 228
Empedokles, 57, 60, *157 f., 247, 249;
reverenced as a god, 203
Enquiry, ways of, 89
Epikouros, 85
Epiphanius, 108, 119, 129, 154 f., 234
Equality, geometrical, 133
Erinnyes, 33
Esoteric class, 154
Eudemos, 116
Euripides, 257
Eurystratos, 17, 19, 21
Eye, Empedokles on the, 197
False assumptions of Melissos, 129
Fate, 39, 62, 97, 163
Fire, 19, 99, 155, 191;
central Pythagorean, 136;
ever-living, 29;
periodic, 61;
transformations of, 31
First principle, 2, 5, 67, 218, 230, 234, 260;
are ten, 138;
heat and cold as, 104;
is eternal, 13;
is fire, 58;
is water, 4, 67
Flame, sphere of, 14
Flesh forbidden, 205, 213
Fossils, 82
Friendship, 222
Galen, 81, 83, 119
Gate of Parmenides, 89
Generation, 10, 13 f., 20, 82, 93 f., 119, 124, 129 f., 163, 245
Genesis, 165
God, 33, 39, 47, 65, 79, 147, 151, 173, 201, 222, 254
Gods, 2, 3, 7, 21, 41, 58, 201, 233;
anthropomorphic, 67, 77;
are born, 16, 171;
Homeric treatment of, 67;
goddess of Parmenides, 89
Good and bad, 39, 57
Habit, 93
Hades, 35
Hail, 20
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