Early Greek Philosophy, LCL 526: Early Greek Philosophy III Translated by Andre Laks and Glenn W. Most
Number of quotes: 8
Book ID: 429 Page: 77
Section:
2B1
R2 (Metaphysics
Xenophanes, the first of those [scil. Together with Parmenides and Melissus] to have taught the One […].
Quote ID: 8705
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Book ID: 429 Page: 77
Section:
2B1
For Xenophanes said of this one and whole that it is god. He demonstrated that he is one on the basis of the fact that he is the strongest of all; for, he says, if there were more than one, ruling would necessarily belong to all of them in a similar way....
Quote ID: 8706
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Book ID: 429 Page: 103
Section:
2B1
[…]Xenophanes affirmed dogmatically, against the conceptions of all other humans, that the whole is one, that god is [scil. consubstantially] mixed with the nature of all things….
Quote ID: 8707
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Book ID: 429 Page: 105
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2B1
R22 (A35) Ps.-Galen, Philosophical History
[…]Xenophanes was in aporia about all things, and held as his only dogmatic view that all things are one and that this is god, who is limited, rational, and changeless […].
*John’s Note: aporia = an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction *
Quote ID: 8708
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Book ID: 429 Page: 143
Section:
4B
D13 (B29) Clement of Alexandria, Stromata
The best men choose one thing instead of all others, the ever-flowing fame of mortals….
Quote ID: 8709
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23
Book ID: 429 Page: 281
Section:
2B2,4B
R74 (cf. Nachtrag I, p. 491.42) Philo, Questions Genesis
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Heraclitus wrote the book on nature; which [scil. he wrote] having learned from the theologian [i.e. Moses] the ideas about the opposites, and having added to it an infinity of laborious arguments.{1}
Quote ID: 8710
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Book ID: 429 Page: 285
Section:
2C,4A,4B
R77 (≠ DK) Justin Martyr, Apology
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And those people who have lived with the Word were Christians, even if they were considered to be atheists, as for example, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus, and those men similar to them, and, among the barbarians, Abraham […].
Quote ID: 8711
Time Periods:
2
Book ID: 429 Page: 287
Section:
4A,4B
Clement cites Heraclitus [PJ: c. 535 BC– c. 475 BC] often.