File Stobaeus Eklogai apophthegmaton 1536 page 1.jpg right thumb Page one of the Florilegium of Stobaeus, from the 1536 edition by Vettore Trincavelli . For the composer see Johann Stob us Joannes Stobaeus Pronunciation needed needing not the original Latin Greek pronunciation, but the Anglicized pronunciation that Classics Philosophy History etc. scholars use in English lang el 5th century , from Stobi in Macedonia Roman province 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. The two volumes became separated in the manuscript tradition, and the first volume became known as the Extracts Eclogues and the second volume became known as the Anthology Florilegium . Modern editions now refer to both volumes as the Anthology . The Anthology contains extracts from hundreds of writers, especially poets, historians, orators, philosophers and physicians. The subjects covered range from natural philosophy , dialectics , and ethics , to politics , economics , and maxims of practical wisdom. The work preserves fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown ... , or Anthology . ref name mason The extracts were intended by Stobaeus for his son Septimius, and were ... name mason Stobaeus quoted more than five hundred writers, generally beginning with the poets, and then proceeding ... assigned to this term is often untrustworthy. ref name eb1911 Stobaeus betrays a tendency to confound ... name mason The first edition of the whole of Stobaeus together was one published at Geneva in 1609 ... by Stobaeus. ref name scottferguson Citations Reflist References Charles Peter Mason, http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 3247.html Stobaeus entry, in William Smith lexicographer William ... www.archive.org details adw8682.indx.001.umich.edu Appendix Index of Authors Persondata NAME Stobaeus ... Stobaeus letterkundige pt Estobeu ru fi Johannes Stobaios sv Johannes Stobaeus uk ... more details
Naumachius was a Greece Greek gnomic poetry gnomic poet . Of his poems, seventy three hexameter s in three fragments are preserved by Joannes Stobaeus Stobaeus in his Florilegium they deal mainly with the duty of a good wife. From the remarks on celibacy and the allusion to a mystic marriage it has been conjectured that the author was a Christian . The fragments, translated anonymously into English under the title of Advice to the Fair Sex 1736 , are in Thomas Gaisford Gaisford s Poetae minores Graeci , iii 1823 . References 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Naumachius ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Ancient Greek poets Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Ancient Greece writer stub Greece poet stub pl Naumachios ... more details
Agesilaus Greek language Greek lang grc was a Greek historian who wrote a work on the early history of Italy, ref name DGRBM Citation last Mason first Charles Peter author link contribution Agesilaus 3 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 70 publisher Little, Brown and Company place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0079.html ref fragments of which are preserved in Plutarch s Parallel Lives , ref Plutarch , Parallela , p. 312 ref and in Stobaeus Florilegium . ref Stobaeus Florilegium ix, 27 liv. 49 lxv. 10 ref References reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Agesilaus Historian Category Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources Category Epithets of Hades Category Ancient Italian history ca Agesilaos hr Agezilaj it Agesilao storico nl Agesila s historicus ... more details
Ocellus Lucanus , a Pythagorean philosopher , born in Lucania in the 5th century BC, was perhaps a pupil of Pythagoras himself. Stobaeus Ecl. Phys. i. 13 has preserved a fragment of his if he was really the author in the Doric Greek Doric dialect , but the only one of his alleged works which is extant is a short treatise in four chapters in the Ionic dialect generally known as On the Nature of the Universe . Excerpts from this are given in Stobaeus i. 20 , but in Doric. It is certainly not authentic, and cannot be dated earlier than the 1st century BC. It maintains the doctrine that the universe is uncreated and eternal that to its three great divisions correspond the three kinds of beings gods, men and daemons and, finally, that the human race with all its institutions the family, marriage and the like must be eternal. It advocates an ascetic mode of life, with a view to the perfect reproduction of the race and its training in all that is noble and beautiful. Editions of the , by A. F. Rudolph 1801, with commentary , and by Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach F. W. A. Mullach in Fragmenta philosophorum graecorum , i. 1860 see also Eduard Zeller , History of Greek Philosophy , i. Eng. trans. , and J de Heyden Zielewicz in Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen , viii. 3 1901 . There is an English translation 1831 by Thomas Taylor neoplatonist Thomas Taylor , the Platonist. References 1911 External links Edicion completa Bilingue Griego Espa ol http www.archive.org details OcellusLucanus LaNaturalezaDelUniverso DEFAULTSORT Lucanus Category 5th century BC births Category 5th century BC philosophers Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia Category Ancient Greek physicists Category Doric Greek writers Category Ionic Greek writers Category Lucanian Greeks it Ocello Lucano hu Ocellus Lucanus ... more details
Eurytus lang el , an eminent Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher, lived c. 400 BC, who Iamblichus in one passage ref Iamblichus, de Vit. Pyth. 28 ref describes as a native of Croton , while in another, ref Iamblichus, de Vit. Pyth. 36 ref he enumerates him among the Taranto Tarentine Pythagoreans. He was a disciple of Philolaus , and Diogenes La rtius ref Diogenes La rtius iii. 6, viii. 46 ref mentions him among the teachers of Plato , though this statement is very doubtful. It is uncertain whether Eurytus was the author of any work, unless we suppose that the fragment in Stobaeus , ref Stobaeus, Phys. Ecl. i. ref which is there ascribed to one Eurytus, belongs to this Eurytus. Aristotle , Metaphysics Aristotle Metaphysics 1092b mentions Eurytus, speaking about points as limits of spatial magnitude It was in this sense that Eurytus determined the number of anything for he computed the number of a man or that of a horse or of any living thing by outlining its shape with pebbles, as one would number the sides of a triangle or a square, ref Aristotle, Metaphysics , 1092b. translated by Richard Hope, p. 314, Columbia University Press, 2008. ref Notes reflist SmithDGRBM Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Eurytus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Eurytus Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia Category Ancient Crotonians Category 4th century BC philosophers Category 4th century BC deaths ca Eurit de Eurytos Philosoph it Eurito pitagorico fi Eurytos filosofi roa tara Eurito, pitagoriche uk ... more details
For the Macedonian officer Monimus general Image Monimus.jpg right thumb Monimus of Syracuse Monimus lang el 4th century BCE of Syracuse, Italy Syracuse , was a Cynic philosopher. According to Diogenes La rtius , Monimus was the slave of a Corinth ian money changer who heard tales about Diogenes of Sinope from Xeniades , Diogenes master. In order that he might become the pupil of Diogenes, Monimus feigned madness by throwing money around until his master discarded him. Monimus also became acquainted with Crates of Thebes . ref Diogenes La rtius, vi. 82 ref He was famous for saying that everything is vanity, ref Diogenes La rtius, vi. 83 compare Marcus Aurelius, Meditations , ii. 15. ref tuphos , literally mist or smoke . According to Sextus Empiricus , Monimus was like Anaxarchus , because they compared existing things to a scene painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness. ref Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians , 7.88. ref He said that it was better to lack sight than education, because under the first affliction, you fall to the ground, under the latter, deep underground, ref Stobaeus, Florilegium , ii. 13. 88 ref and he also said that Wealth is the vomiting of Fortune. ref Stobaeus, Florilegium , iv. 31. 89 ref He wrote two books On Impulses , and an Exhortation to Philosophy , and he also wrote some jests mixed with serious themes, ref Diogenes La rtius, vi. 83 ref presumably related to Cynic style Spoudaiogeloion spoudogeloia . Notes reflist External links Commonscat Monimus ws Diogenes La rtius , s Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book VI Monimus Life of Monimus , translated by Robert Drew Hicks 1925 Cynics DEFAULTSORT Monimus Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Ancient Syracusians Category Cynic philosophers de Monimos es M nimo de Siracusa fr Monime it Monimo nl Monimos pl Monimos z Syrakuz ru sk Monimos fi Monimos ... more details
Onatas lang el 5th century BC? of Croton ref Iamblichus , Vit. Pyth. 267 ref or Tarentum ref Joannes Laurentius Lydus , De Mens. 2. 12 ref was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher. ref Trevor Curnow, 2006 , The philosophers of the ancient world an A to Z guide , page 201 ref Nothing is known about his life, but a long passage from a work entitled On God and the Divine lang el is preserved Stobaeus . ref Stobaeus, i. 1. 39 ref The work probably dates from the 1st century BC or AD and is part of the pseudonym ous Neo Pythagorean literature. The author Pseudo Onatas argues that God is a governing part of the universe, ref Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 1999 , Volume 10, page 3. Societ internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino, Centro italiano di studi sull alto Medioevo. ref although the universe itself is not God but only divine. ref P. L. Reynolds, The Essence, Power and Presence of God in douard Jeauneau, Haijo Jan Westra, 1992 , From Athens to Chartres neoplatonism and medieval thought, page 355. BRILL ref He argued against the belief in a single deity on the basis of the many powers in the universe they must belong to different gods. ref James M. Reese, 1970 , Hellenistic influence on the Book of Wisdom and its consequences , page 56. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum ref He also claimed that the earthy mixture of the body defiles the purity of the soul. ref James M. Reese, 1970 , Hellenistic influence on the Book of Wisdom and its consequences , page 87. Pontificium Institutum Biblicum ref Notes Reflist Category 5th century BC Greek people Category 5th century BC philosophers Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia ca Onates de Crotona ... more details
Phanocles , Greece Greek elegiac poet , probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great . His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philitas of Cos , Callimachus and Hermesianax . He was the author of a poem on pederasty . A lengthy fragment in Stobaeus Florilegium , 64 describes the love of Orpheus for the youthful Cala s, son of Boreas, and his subsequent death at the hands of the Thracian women. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry. References cite book author Nicolaus Bachius Bach title Philetae Coi, Hermesianactis Colophonii, atque Phanoclis Reliquiae location Halle publisher Libraria Gebaueria date 1829 language Latin cite book author Ludwig Preller title Ausgew hlte Aufs tze aus dem Gebiete der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft location Berlin publisher Weidmannsche Buchhandlung date 1864 language German 1911 Category Ancient Greek poets Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC poets Category Ancient Greek elegiac poets Category Greek mythology of Thrace de Phanokles el it Fanocle nl Phanocles no Fanokles ... more details
Eusebius of Myndus was a 4th century philosopher, a distinguished Neoplatonist . He is described by Eunapius as one of the links in the Golden Chain of Neoplatonism . He was a pupil of Aedesius of Pergamon Pergamum . He devoted himself principally to logic and ventured to criticize the magical and theurgic side of the doctrine. By this he exasperated the later Emperor Julian the Apostate Julian , who preferred the mysticism of Maximus of Ephesus Maximus and Chrysanthius . Stobaeus collected a number of ethical dicta of one Eusebius, who may perhaps be identical with the Neoplatonist. References 1911 Platonists DEFAULTSORT Eusebius Of Myndus Category 4th century Romans Category 4th century philosophers Category Neoplatonists Category Roman era philosophers philosopher stub bg ca Eusebi de Mindos de Eusebios von Myndos it Eusebio di Mindo nl Eusebius van Myndus ru sh Euzebije iz Minda fi Eusebios Myndoslainen ... more details
Phintys or Phyntis , lang el 4th or 3rd century BC was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher. Nothing is known about her life, nor where she came from. She wrote a work on the correct behaviour of women, two extracts of which are preserved by Stobaeus . Nothing is known about the life of Phintys. It is not even certain whether she wrote the work which bears her name. Stobaeus calls her the daughter of Callicrates ref Stobaeus, iv. 23.11 ref and it has been suggested that she was the daughter of Callicratidas , the Sparta n admiral who lived in the late 5th century BC, ref Mary Ellen Waithe 1987 ref but this is pure conjecture. ref name plant Ian Plant 2004 ref Two fragments of her work survive, written in the Doric Greek Doric dialect of the 4th or 3rd century BC. ref name plant Iamblichus lists a Philtys of Croton, daughter of Theophrius, in his catalogue of female Pythagoreans, ref Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras , 267 ref but apart from a similarity in names, there is no other reason to connect the two figures. The two extracts of her work which survive are each about a page long. They focus on the need for a woman to be chaste , arguing that a woman wrongs the gods and natural law if she does not do so. She further states that a woman s greatest honour is to bear children which resemble their father, and that a woman must dress in moderation and not embellish her appearance. Although her arguments favour a traditional role for women, she does argue that it is important for a woman to practice philosophy because courage , justice , and intelligence are common to both men and women. Notes reflist References Citation last Plant first Ian year 2004 title Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome An Anthology pages 84 86 publisher Equinox isbn 1904768024 Citation last Waithe first Mary Ellen year 1987 title A History of Women Philosophers Volume I Ancient Women Philosophers, 600 BC 500 AD publisher Springer isbn 9024733685 External links http www.stoa.org dio ... more details
Image Stob us.jpg thumb Johann Stob us. Johann Stob us 6 July 1580 11 September 1646 was a North German composer and lutenist. Stob us was born at Graudenz . From 1599 to 1608 he was a pupil of Johannes Eccard , the Kapellmeister of K nigsberg. In 1601 he joined the princely Kapelle as a bass singer, and in 1602 he became Kantor at K nigsberg Cathedral . In 1626 he succeeded Eccard as Kapellmeister, remaining in post until his death. He died at K nigsberg . Stob us wrote music for liturgical use, as well as songs and compositions for lute. Much of his manuscript music was lost in World War II what remains is largely held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Stob us s Commonplace Book, containing songs, instrumental music and drawings of instruments, is preserved at the British Library Sloane MS 1021 . Works Cantiones Sacrae 5 10. v. item Magnificat, Frankfurt Oder 1624 Geistliche Lieder auf gew hnliche Preu ische Kirchenmelodien, Danzig 1634 Erster und Ander Theil der Preu ischen Fest Lieder, 5 8st. incomplete , Elbing 1642 and K nigsberg 1644 Recordings Stobaeus, Johann Lob unnd Danck Lied Gott ist und bleibt der K nig , ref Dem grossen Gott zu schuldigen Ehren dass er seinen...Zorn wegen des...Kriegswesens...von diesem Lande und dessen Bewohnern abgewendet durch den zwischen beyden K nigreichen Pohlen und Schweden getroffenen und confirmirten sechsj hrigen Stillstand... in der gemeinen und gebr uchlichen Kirchen Melodey Hertzlich thut mich verlangen . K nigsberg Lorentz Segebad, 1630. Motette zu 6 Stimmen SSATTB , Text Georg Weissel, 6 Strophen. Neuausgabe in Eccard Stobaeus Preussische Festlieder auf das ganze Jahr 1642 und 1644 , hg. v. G. W. Teschner, Leipzig 1858, S. 60 61. ref and Ein anderes auf denselben von Gott gn digst verliehenen sechsj hrigen Stillstand. Anno 1630 . K nigsberg Lorentz Segebad, 1630. ref Motette zu 6 Stimmen SSATTB , Text Georg Weissel, 5 Strophen. Neuausgabe in Eccard Stobaeus Preussische Festlieder auf das ganze Jahr 1642 und 1644 , hg. ... more details
Moderatus of C diz Gades was a Greek philosopher of the Neopythagorean school, who lived in the 1st century AD, contemporary with Apollonius of Tyana . He wrote a great work on the doctrines of the Pythagoreans , and tried to show that the successors of Pythagoras had made no additions to the views of their founder, but had merely borrowed and altered the phraseology. He has been given an exaggerated importance by some commentators, who have regarded him as the forerunner of the Alexandrian School of philosophy . Eduard Zeller Zeller has shown that the authority on which this view is based is unsound. Moderatus is thus left as an unimportant though interesting representative of a type of thought which had almost disappeared since the 5th century BC. Stobaeus , in his Eclogae , preserves a fragment of his writings. References 1911 Category 1st century philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Neo Pythagoreans Category Roman era philosophers Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category People from Cadiz ca Moderat de Gades de Moderatos von Gades es Moderato de C diz fr Moderatus de Gad s it Moderato di Cadice ru fi Moderatos ... more details
This is a list of mayors of Regensburg . It includes the First Mayors Erster B rgermeister and Lord Mayor s of Regensburg Oberb rgermeister der Stadt Regensburg since 1811 1818. class wikitable From To Mayor 1811 1814 Franz Gruber musician Franz Xaver Gruber 1814 1815 Kitzinger 1815 1818 Josef Bohonowsky 1818 1828 Johann Karl Martin Mauerer 1828 1832 Sigmund Maria Edler von Eggelkraut 1832 1835 Friedrich Br gel 1836 1848 Gottlieb Freiherr von Thon Dittmer 1849 1856 Georg Satzinger 1856 1868 Friedrich Schubarth 1868 1903 Oskar von Stobaeus 1903 1910 Hermann Geib 1910 1910 Alfons Auer 1910 1914 Otto Ge ler 1914 1920 Josef Bleyer 1920 1933 Otto Hipp 1933 1945 Otto Schottenheim 1945 1946 Gerhard Tietze Dr. Gerhard Tietze 1946 1948 Alfons Hei 1948 1952 Georg Zitzler 1952 1959 Hans Herrmann 1959 1978 Rudolf Schlichtinger 1978 1990 Friedrich Viehbacher 1990 1996 Christa Meier 1996 Hans Schaidinger Category Lists of mayors of places in Germany Regensburg Category Politics of Bavaria Mayors of Regensburg Category Regensburg Mayors de Liste der Oberb rgermeister von Regensburg ... more details
Democrates lang el a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher, concerning whom little is known. A collection of moral maxim philosophy maxims , called the Golden Sentences lang el has come down to us under his name. They are written in the Ionic Greek Ionic dialect, from which some writers have inferred, that they were written at a very early period, whereas others think it more probable that they are the production of the age of Julius Caesar. But nothing can be said with certainty, for want of both external and internal evidence. Some of these sentences are quoted by Stobaeus , and are found in some manuscripts under the name of Democritus . Apollonius of Tyana wrote at least one letter to a Democrates, Epistle 88 . It is possible that the sayings of Democrates all came from an original collection of sayings of Democritus, but other scholars believe that there was a different unknown Democrates whose name became confused with the better known Democritus the Democrates sayings show little sign of Democritean technical vocabulary. ref Taylor, C., The Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus Fragments a Text and Translation . Page 224 225. University of Toronto Press. 1999 . ref References reflist SmithDGRBM External links http www.sacred texts.com cla gvp gvp05.htm The Golden Sentences of Democrates Category Pythagoreans Category Ionic Greek writers ca Dem crates fil sof pitag ric no Democrates ... more details
orphan date May 2010 Agetor Ancient Greek lang grc was an epithet given to several gods of Greek mythology , ref name DGRBM Citation last Schmitz first Leonhard author link contribution Agetor editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 71 publisher Little, Brown and Company place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0080.html . ref for instance, to Zeus at Lacedaemon . ref Stobaeus . Sermones , 42. ref The name seems to describe Zeus as the leader and ruler of men, although others think that it is synonymous with another epithet of Zeus Agamemnon Zeus Agamemnon . Agetor was also an epithet of Apollo , although some writers, such as Peter Elmsley , think this epithet was not Agetor but Hagetor lang grc . ref Euripides . Medea play Medea , 426. ref Finally, it was also an epithet applied to Hermes , who conducts the souls of men to the lower world. Under this name Hermes had a statue at Megalopolis, Greece Megalopolis . ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias . Description of Greece , viii. 31. 4. ref References reflist 2 Sources SmithDGRBM Category Epithets of Apollo Category Epithets of Zeus Category Epithets of Hermes Category Religion in ancient Sparta de Agetor ... more details
For others with this name, see Agrippinus . Paconius Agrippinus was a Stoicism Stoic philosopher of the 1st century. ref name DGRBM Citation last Smith first William author link William Smith lexicographer contribution Agrippinus, Paconius editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 82 publisher Little, Brown and Company place Boston year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0091.html ref His father was put to death by the Roman emperor Tiberius on a charge of treason. ref Suetonius , Tiberius 61 ref Agrippinus himself was accused at the same time as Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus Thrasea , around 67 AD, and was banished from Italy. ref Tacitus , Annals Tacitus Annales xvi. 28, 29, 33 ref As a philosopher he was spoken of with praise by Epictetus . ref Epictetus , ap. Stobaeus Serm. 7 Discourses of Epictetus Discourses , i. 1. 28 30 ref References reflist SmithDGRBM interwiki linking DEFAULTSORT Paconius Agrippinus Category 1st century philosophers Category Roman era Stoic philosophers Category Philosophers of Roman Italy ca Paconi Agrip ... more details
For another name used by Bolus of Mendes Pseudo Democritus Bolus of Mendes 4th century BC was an ancient Greek philosophy Greek philosopher and writer of medical works. The Suda , and Eudocia after him, ref Suda, Bolus , 482 cf. Eudocia ref mention a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher of Mendes in Egypt , who wrote on marvels, potent remedies, and astronomical phenomena. The Suda, however, also describes a Bolus who was a philosopher of the school of Democritus , ref Suda, Bolus , 481 ref who wrote Inquiry , and Medical Art , containing natural medical remedies from some resources of nature. But, from a passage of Columella , ref Columella, vii. 5 comp. Stobaeus, Serm. 51 ref it appears that Bolus of Mendes and the follower of Democritus were one and the same person and he seems to have lived to the time of Theophrastus , whose work Historia Plantarum On Plants he appears to have known. ref Stephanus of Byzantium Apsynthus Scholium ad Nicand. Theriac. 764 ref Notes reflist SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Bolus of Mendes Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek physicians Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Pythagoreans de Bolos von Mendes fr Bolos de Mend s it Bolo di Mende la Democritus scriptor pseudonymus pl Bolos z Mendes sv Bolos av Mendes ... more details
Antonius Melissa c. 11th century , is the name given to a Greek monk who wrote a compilation of moral sentences called Loci Communes . Nothing is known about Antonius. The surname traditionally applied to him, Melissa the Bee , seems to have been, in fact, the original title of his compilation. ref Ezra Abbot, 2008 , The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel And Other Critical Essays , page 300 ref The compilation is usually referred to as the Loci Communes , and is a collection of sermones or sentences on virtues and vices. It is similar to another work called Loci Communes , ref Luke Timothy Johnson, William S. Kurz, 2002 , The future of Catholic biblical scholarship a constructive conversation , page 42 ref which is attributed to Maximus Confessor but which is in reality by an anonymous author. Both works contain extracts from the early Church father Christian fathers , and also contain quotations from earlier Jewish and Gentile authors. The two works have often been printed together, and have often been printed at the end of the editions of Stobaeus . Notes Reflist Category 11th century Byzantine people Category 11th century Eastern Orthodox Christians Category 11th century writers Category Byzantine writers ca Antoni Melissa pt Ant nio Melissa ... more details
one source date February 2012 no footnotes date February 2012 Platonism Hierocles of Alexandria was a Greece Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430. He studied under Plutarch of Athens Plutarch the Neoplatonist at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his abode in Constantinople , where he gave such offence that he was thrown into prison and cruelly flogged. The causes of this are not recorded it is mere speculation that he was flogged for being a pagan. The only complete work of his which has been preserved is the commentary on the Golden verses of Pythagoras Chrysa Epe Golden Verses of Pythagoras . It enjoyed a great reputation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , and there are numerous translations in various European languages. Several other writings, especially one on providence and fate, a consolatory treatise dedicated to his patron Olympiodorus of Thebes , are quoted or referred to by Photios I of Constantinople Photius and Stobaeus . Hierocles argued against astrological fatalism on the basis that it is supported by an irrational necessity rather than a divine, rational Providence of God. For the same reason, he opposed theurgic and magic practices as they were attempts to supersede the divine providential order http www.iep.utm.edu a astr hel.htm SH7e . Although he never mentions Christianity in his surviving works, his writings have been taken as an attempt at reconciliation between Greek religion traditions and the Christian beliefs he may have encountered in Constantinople http www.ccel.org w wace biodict htm iii.viii.xxvi.htm . The collection of some 260 witticisms attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius has no connection with Hierocles of Alexandria, but is probably a compilation of later date, founded on two older collections. It is now agreed that the fragments of the Elements of Ethics preserved in Stobaeus are from a work ... more details
by the extant Rhetoric Aristotle Rhetorica . Stobaeus quotes the following pessimistic passage from an unknown tragedy of his Snell fr. 12 Stobaeus, Anthologium 3.32.14 style border 0px margin ... more details
About Aetius the doxographer other persons of this name Aetius disambiguation Aetius was a 1st or 2nd century doxographer and Eclecticism Origin Eclectic Philosophy philosopher . None of Aetius works survive today, but he solves a mystery about two major compilations of philosophical quotes. There are two extant books named Placita Philosophorum , Opinions of the Philosophers and Eclogae Physicae , Physical and Moral Extracts . The first of these is Pseudo Plutarch and the second is by Stobaeus . They are clearly both abridgements of a larger work. Hermann Diels , in his great Doxographi Graeci , discovered that the 5th century theologician Theodoret had full versions of the quotes which were shortened in the abridgements. This means that Theodoret had managed to procure the original book which Pseudo Plutarch and Stobeaus had shortened. He calls this book Aetiou t n peri areskont n sunag g n, and therefore we ascribe the original Placita to Aetius. Diels claimed that Aetius himself was merely abridging a work which Diels called the Vetusta Placita because he wrote his paper in Latin literally, Older Tenets . Unlike Aetius, whose existence is attested by Theodoret, the Vetusta Placita is Diels invention and is generally disregarded by modern classicists, e.g., the 1999 Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy . Quotes which are ascribed to Aetius in scholarly essays were actually discovered in either the abridgements of Pseudo Plutarch or Stobaeus, or Theodoret s full quotes in rare cases, or finally one of several ancient authors who provided corrections to misquotes in one of these works. External links http faculty.evansville.edu tb2 courses phil211 burnet note.htm 9 John Burnet s Early Greek Philosophy Section B Note on the Sources sep entry doxography ancient Doxography of Ancient Philosophy Jaap Mansfeld Complete text of the Placita http remacle.org bloodwolf historiens Plutar ... more details
Apollodorus lang el of Seleucia on the Tigris Seleucia , flourished c. 150 BC , was a Stoicism Stoic philosopher , and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon . He wrote a number of handbooks lang el on Stoicism, including ones on Ethics and Physics which are frequently cited by Diogenes La rtius . ref name diog1 Diogenes La rtius, http www.fordham.edu halsall ancient diogeneslaertius book7 stoics.html The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, VII ref Apollodorus is famous for describing Cynic ism as the short path to virtue , ref name diog1 and he may have been the first Stoic after the time of Zeno of Citium Zeno to systematically attempt to reconcile Stoicism with Cynicism. The lengthy account of Cynicism given by Diogenes La rtius, ref Diogenes La rtius, http www.fordham.edu halsall ancient diogeneslaertius book6 cynics.html The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, VI ref which is presented from a Stoic point of view, may be derived from Apollodorus, ref Dawson, D., Cities of the Gods Communist Utopias in Greek Thought , Oxford University Press. 1992 . ref and it is possible that he was the first Stoic to promote the idea of a line of Cynic succession from Socrates to Zeno Socrates Antisthenes Diogenes of Sinope Diogenes Crates of Thebes Crates Zeno . His book on Physics was well known in ancient times, and the Stoic Theo of Alexandria wrote a commentary on it in the 1st century AD. ref Suda, Theo . ref It is quoted several times by Diogenes La rtius, and Stobaeus records Apollodorus views on the nature of time blockquote Time is the dimension of the world s motion and it is infinity infinite in just the way that the whole number is said to be infinite. Some of it is past , some present, and some future . But the whole of time is present, as we say that the year is present on a larger compass. Also, the whole of time is said to belong, though none of its parts belong exactly. ref Stobaeus, 1.105, 8 16 ref blockquote References reflist S ... more details
otheruses Sotion Sotion 1st century , a native of Alexandria , was a Neopythagorean philosopher who lived in the age of Tiberius . ref Seneca, Epistles , ws s Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 108 cviii. 22 ref He belonged to the school of Quintus Sextius which combined Pythagoreanism with Stoicism . Sotion was the teacher of Seneca the Younger , who sat as a lad, in the school of the philosopher Sotion. ref Seneca, Epistles , ws s Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 49 xlix. 2 ref Seneca derived from him his admiration of Pythagoreanism , ref Seneca, Epistles , ws s Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 108 cviii. 17 21 ref and quotes Sotion s views concerning vegetarianism and the metempsychosis migration of the soul blockquote You do not believe that souls are assigned, first to one body and then to another, and that our so called death is merely a change of abode? You do not believe that in cattle, or in wild beasts, or in creatures of the deep, the soul of him who was once a man may linger? You do not believe that nothing on this earth is annihilated, but only changes its haunts? And that animals also have cycles of progress and, so to speak, an orbit for their souls, no less than the heavenly bodies, which revolve in fixed circuits? Great men have put faith in this idea therefore, while holding to your own view, keep the whole question in abeyance in your mind. If the theory is true, it is a mark of purity to refrain from eating flesh if it be false, it is economy. And what harm does it do to you to give such credence? I am merely depriving you of food which sustains lions and vultures. ref Seneca, Epistles , ws s Moral letters to Lucilius Letter 108 cviii. 20 21 ref blockquote It was perhaps this Sotion who was the author of a treatise on anger, quoted by Stobaeus . ref Stobaeus, Floril. xiv. 10, xx. 53, lxxxiv. 6 8, 17, 18, cviii. 59, cxiii. 15 ref Plutarch also quotes a Sotion ref Plutarch, Alex. 61 ref as the authority for certain statements respecting towns founde ... more details
Aesara of Lucania or Aisara, lang el 4th or 3rd century BC was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher, who wrote a work On Human Nature , of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus . Life Nothing is known about the life of Aesara, she is known only from a one page fragment of her philosophical work entitled On Human Nature preserved by Stobaeus . ref Stobaeus, i. 49. 27 ref Lucania , where she came from, was an ancient district of southern Italy and part of Magna Graecia where many Pythagorean communities existed. It has been conjectured that her name is a variation on the name Aresa , who, according to one minor tradition, was a daughter of Pythagoras and Theano philosopher Theano . ref Harvnb Plant 2004 pp 81 82 ref A male writer from Lucania called Aresas is also mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras . ref Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras , 266 ref Work On Human Nature is written in the Doric Greek Doric prose characteristic of the 3rd century BC or earlier, ref Harvnb Waithe 1987 p 72 Harvnb Plant 2004 pp 81 82 ref although that doesn t exclude the possibility that it was written later in an archaic style. ref Harvnb Waithe 1987 p 68 ref It has been argued that the fragment is a Neopythagorean forgery dating from the Roman era , although this at least implies that there was an earlier Pythagorean called Aesara of Lucania worth imitating. ref Harvnb Waithe 1987 pp 61 62 ref It has also been suggested that the fragment is pseudonym ous, and comes from a textbook produced by one of the dissenting successor schools to Archytas of Tarentum in Italy in the 4th or 3rd century BC. ref Harvnb Waithe 1987 pp 63 65 ref In the absence of any strong evidence supporting either hypothesis, there is no reason to suppose that the fragment was not written by a woman philosopher called Aesara in the 4th or 3rd centuries BC. ref Harvnb Waithe 1987 pp 72 73 Harvnb Plant 2004 pp 81 82 ref Aesara argues that it is by studying our own human nature and specifically ... more details
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