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Aristocles (other)
Aristocles may refer to: *Plato, Greek philosopher whose given name was Aristocles but who became best known by his nickname, Plato. *Aristocles of Rhodes (fl. 1st century BCE), grammarian, rhetorician and Platonist *Aristocles of Pergamon (fl. 1st century), rhetorician *Aristocles (physician) (fl. 1st century) physician of Ancient Greece *Aristocles of Messene (fl. 2nd century), Peripatetic philosopher *Aristocles, a Stoic philosopher, who wrote a commentary in four books on a work of Chrysippus some time after the 3rd century *Aristocles, a musician to whom Athenaeus attributes a worked titled "On Song" ( grc, περὶ χόρων, link=no) *Aristocles, the otherwise unknown author of a solitary epigram in the Greek Anthology *Aristocles, author of a work on paradoxes ( grc, Παράδοξα, link=no). Some scholars believe this person is identical with Aristocles of Messene Aristocles of Messene (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ Μεσσήνιος), in Sicily,Suda, ''Aris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocles Of Rhodes
Aristocles (; grc, Ἀριστοκλῆς) of Rhodes was grammarian, rhetorician, Platonist, and musician of Ancient Greece, who was a contemporary of Strabo. He is probably the writer whose work "On Poetics" ( grc, περὶ ποιητκῆς) is mentioned in the book "On the Differences of Synonymous Expressions" ( grc, περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων), which was traditionally attributed to Ammonius Grammaticus, but which scholars since the 19th century have begun to believe was actually written by Philo of Byblos. There are several other grammatical and historical works that are only ascribed to "Aristocles" and which some writers over the years have ascribed or suspected were the works of this Aristocles but it is ambiguous whether Aristocles of Rhodes, specifically, was intended as the writer, or some other Aristocles was meant: * "On Plato's Dialogues" ( grc, περὶ διαλέκτου) * "The Spartan State" ( grc, Λακῶνων πολιτε ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocles Of Pergamon
Aristocles of Pergamon (; grc, Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ ἐκ τοῦ Περγάμου) was a sophist and rhetorician who lived in the time of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian. He spent the early part of his life on the study of Peripatetic philosophy, and during this period he completely neglected his outward appearance. But afterwards he was seized by the desire of becoming a rhetorician, and went to Rome, where he enrolled himself among the pupils of Herodes Atticus. After his return to Pergamus, he made a complete change in his mode of life, and appears to have enjoyed a great reputation as a teacher of rhetoric. His declamations are praised for their perspicacity and for the purity of the Attic Greek; but they were wanting in passion and animation, and resembled philosophical discussions. In the Suda, it is ascribed to him a work on rhetoric ( grc, τέχνη ῥητορική), letters, declamations, and other subjects. Eudokia Makrembolitissa, ''Collection Collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocles (physician)
Aristocles (; grc, Ἀριστοκλῆς) was a physician of the ancient world whose medicines are several times quoted by one of the physicians named Andromachus. He is also mentioned in the first volume of John Cramer's ''Anecdota Graeca''.Ap. Gal. ''De Compos. Medicam. sec Locos'' vi. 6, vol. xii, p.936. Nothing is known of the events of his life, but he must have lived some time in or before the first century. References {{DGRBM, author=WAG, title=Aristocles, volume=1, page=302, url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/317 Ancient Greek physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocles Of Messene
Aristocles of Messene (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ Μεσσήνιος), in Sicily,Suda, ''Aristokles'' was a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD. He may have been the teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias. According to the Suda and Eudokia, he wrote several works: *Πότερον σπουδαιότερος Ὅμηρος ἢ Πλάτων – ''Whether Homer or Plato is more Worthy''. *Τέχναι ῥητορικαί – ''Arts of Rhetoric''. *A work on the god Serapis. *A work on Ethics, in nine books. *A work on Philosophy, in ten books. The last of these works appears to have been a history of philosophy in which he wrote about the philosophers, their schools, and doctrines. Several fragments of it are preserved in Eusebius' work '' Praeparatio Evangelica.'' One particularly important fragment is known as the ''Aristocles Passage'' in which Pyrrho summarizes his philosophy of Pyrrhonism. This summary includes a translation of the Buddhist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peripatetic School
The Peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece. Its teachings derived from its founder, Aristotle (384–322 BC), and ''peripatetic'' is an adjective ascribed to his followers. The school dates from around 335 BC when Aristotle began teaching in the Lyceum. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. After the middle of the 3rd century BC, the school fell into a decline, and it was not until the Roman era that there was a revival. Later members of the school concentrated on preserving and commenting on Aristotle's works rather than extending them; it died out in the 3rd century. The study of Aristotle's works by scholars who were called Peripatetics continued through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the works of the Peripatetic school were lost to the Latin West, but they were preserved in Byzantium and also incorporated into early Islamic phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenaeus
Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The ''Suda'' says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus. Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume '' Deipnosophistae'' mostly survives. Publications Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the ''thratta'', a kind of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. The ''Deipnosophistae'' The '' Deipnosophistae'', which means "dinner-table philosophers", survives in fifteen books. The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Anthology
The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Palatine Anthology'' of the 10th century and the '' Anthology of Planudes'' (or ''Planudean Anthology'') of the 14th century.: Explanatory text for the book of W. R. Paton entitled "The Greek Anthology with an English Translation" (1916), the same text is also at the introduction in page http://www.ancientlibrary.com/greek-anthology/ before the facsimile copy of the pages of the same book] The earliest known anthology in Greek was compiled by Meleager of Gadara in the first century BC, under the title ''Anthologia'', or "Flower-gathering." It contained poems by the compiler himself and forty-six other poets, including Archilochus, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Simonides. In his preface to his collection, Meleager describes his arrangement o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradox
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion. A paradox usually involves contradictory-yet-interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time. They result in "persistent contradiction between interdependent elements" leading to a lasting "unity of opposites". In logic, many paradoxes exist that are known to be invalid arguments, yet are nevertheless valuable in promoting critical thinking, while other paradoxes have revealed errors in definitions that were assumed to be rigorous, and have caused axioms of mathematics and logic to be re-examined. One example is Russell's paradox, which questions whether a "list of all lists that do not contain themselves" would include itself, and showed that attempts to found set theory on the identification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
