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by A. A. Long


  141-142 245 n2

  Theophrastus (FHSG)

  fr. 227 269 n26

  fr. 227D 41 n24

  fr. 233 43 n46

  fr. 241A 41 n24

  Metaphysics

  11 84

  On the senses (De sensibus)

  1ff. 247 n17, 248 n31

  2 265

  3 255, 270 n38

  3-4 36

  7 263–5

  8 263

  9 265–6

  10 248 n29, 256–7, 270 n43

  11 243, 263

  15 265

  22 266

  25 257–8, 265–6

  26 263–4

  27 263–4, 266

  28 265

  29 263

  36 263–4

  37 266

  38 257, 264

  39 252

  39–45 xx

  40 263–5

  42 263

  43 258, 265

  43-45 254

  44 257–8, 268 n16

  44-45 265

  50 263–5

  50-54 264

  55-56 263, 265

  58 257, 259

  72 265

  Thucydides

  I.10.3 343

  I.11.1 288 n12

  I.23.5 277

  I.23.6 277

  I.39.3 277

  I.69.6 277

  I.146 277

  II.37.1.3 321

  II.48.3 278

  II.49.2 287 n11

  II.53 322

  II.60.4-7 277

  II.65.8 288 n12

  III.13 287 n11

  III.37.3-4 323

  III.45 322

  III.82-83 322

  III.82.8 288 n12

  III.89.5 278

  IV.114.5 277

  V.89 323

  VI.105.2 287 n11

  VIII.68 xix, 331 n31

  Xenophon

  Memorabilia

  I.1.13-14 41 n18

  1.6 330 n29

  1.6. 1–5, 10-15 xix

  II.1.21-34 xxv

  IV.4 xxiii

  IV.4.12-18 330 n20

  INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS

  Note: names of modern scholars are included in this index only if their views are cited in the main text or discussed in footnotes.

  abstraction, 15, 93

  Academics, 1, 18, 32–3

  on Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, 66, 68–9

  account, see logos

  Adkins, A. W. H., 275

  Aenesidemus, 23, 34

  Aeschylus,

  on co-responsibility, 283, 288 n17

  Eumenides, 311

  Aetius, 23–6, 30–1, 33, 35, 37, 41 n24

  agôn, see competition

  aidôs (“mutual respect”), 319

  air (see also elements)

  in Anaxagoras, 163

  in Anaximander, 48

  in Anaximenes, 57–9, 176–7, 252

  in Diogenes of Apollonia, xx, 206, 252, 258

  aither, 46, 79, 163, 240

  aitia, aition, see cause

  Alcidamas, 292

  Alcmaeon, 28, 257–8, 264, 267

  “all things,” accounting for, 10–14, 79, 211, 229, 232, 273, 348

  allegorical interpretation, see poetics

  Ameinias, and Parmenides, xxiv

  analogy,

  in Democritus, 201

  in Empedocles, 160, 356–7

  in Heraclitus, 92–3, 96, 107

  inherited from Homer, 351

  in Milesians, 48, 59, 62, 65 n38, 351

  in Philolaus, 82–3

  Anaxagoras, 159, 162–8, 170–80, 182

  apeiron, 79

  basic postulates, 163–4

  changing ratios, 174

  cosmogony, 162–3

  elements, 163–5, 170–1, 173–4

  “everything mixed with everything,” 163–5, 173

  on Homer, 11, 340

  homoiomereity, 163–4

  infinite divisibility, 163, 175

  life and writings, xvii

  mind (nous), xx, 162–4, 172, 206, 228, 251, 260–1, 266, 273, 348

  mixture, 162–5, 171

  no becoming or perishing, 163, 167, 174–5

  reflected in Derveni papyrus, 341

  relation to

  atomists, 182

  later Eleatic objections, 172–6

  Parmenides, 165–72, 174–6

  Plato, 273

  seeds, 54, 180 n37, 273

  sources for, 38–9

  thought and sensation, 255, 259, 264, 266

  Anaxarchus, 181

  Anaximander,

  apeiron, 47, 53, 56–7, 348

  as first philosopher, 8–9

  astronomy, 47–8, 55–6

  compared with Hesiod, 47–9

  cosmology, 55–7, 228, 272–3

  on divinity of first principle, 53, 205–7

  on evolution of human beings, 11, 48–9

  equilibrium, 55

  life and writings, XVII–XVII, 349–51

  misinterpreted by Aristotle, 50–1, 57–8

  on shape of the earth, 55, 351

  sources for, 33

  zoogony, 48–9

  Anaximenes,

  apeiron, 57–8

  condensation and rarefaction, 57–9

  and Diogenes of Apollonia, 43 n36

  divine air as basic stuff, 53, 57–9, 176–7, 348

  on the earth and astronomy, 59

  life and writings, XVIII, 351

  misinterpreted by Aristotle, 176–7

  soul as air, 11, 59, 252

  anthropology,

  Democritus on, 12

  sophists on, 291, 318

  anthropomorphism,

  criticism of, 16, 46, 209, 212,

  replaced by naturalism, 48, 53

  Antiphon,

  arguments from eikos, 296–7

  as inspiration for Glaucon’s argument in Republic 11, 316, 325

  contrasted with

  Protagoras, 317, 324; with Socrates, 330 n29

  on human nature, 324–8

  on law and justice, 198, 275, 323–8

  life and writings, XVIII–XIX, 275, 292, 317, 329, n9, 331 n31

  On truth, 317, 323–7

  opposition to democracy, 323, 327–8

  psychological language, 327

  Antisthenes, 143–4

  apeiron (“boundless,” “unlimited”)

  in Anaxagoras, 79

  in Anaximander, 56–7, 79

  in Anaximenes, 57–8, 79

  in atomists, 184

  in Melissus, 126

  in Philolaus, 79–82

  in Zeno, 139–41

  Apollodorus, 42 n32

  apothegms, 37, 43 n44

  appearance vs. reality

  in allegorical interpretation, 340

  in discussion of justice, 315, 318, 321

  in Parmenides, 117–18, 120–1, 123–5

  sophists on, 291, 324

  archê (see also principle), 80, 349

  Archelaus, 43 n35

  Archytas, 28, 84, 117

  Areopagus, 311

  arguments (see also Parmenides; Melissus; Zeno of Elea; eikos; sophists)

  against change, 128

  against corporeality, 129

  against divisibility, 119

  against generation and destruction, 118–19

  against motion, 119, 129

  against plurality, 130, 135–9

  against “what is not,” 114–16

  defeasible, 297

  Aristophanes Clouds, xx, 6, 12, 224 n4, 290, 293, 323

  Aristotle, 193–5 26–33,

  on arguments from eikos, 296–8

  on atomists, 179 n24, 181, 84–7, 189, 193–5

  Categories, 29

  on causes, 7, 28, 50–1, 271–2, 274, 282, 284–6

  and early Greek philosophy, 1, 5, 7–8, 11, 22, 26–36, 41 n21, 54, 57, 176–7, 217, 244–5, 253, 255–60, 332–3

  on Heraclitus, 97, 99, 101, 108

  on Hesiod, 8
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br />   Metaphysics, 28, 49–52

  on Milesians, 49–55, 57, 176–7

  on Parmenides, 124

  Physics, 29–30, 38, 41 n24, 272, 274

  on physiologoi vs. poets, 50, 332, 360

  on project of philosophy, 17

  on Protagoras, 302

  on psychology, 250

  on Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, 67–9, 72, 78

  Topics, 28–30

  unmoved mover and Xenophanes, 211

  on Zeno’s paradoxes, 140–2, 145, 151–3

  Aristoxenus, 67, 317

  Arnold, M., 18

  Asia, 16

  astronomy, xvii, xix, xxiii, xxvii, 12, 45, 47–9, 55–6, 83, 100, 106, 123–4, 291

  Athens, xvii–xviii, xx, xxiv, xxvi, xxviii, 293–4, 301, 311, 314, 317–18, 321, 323–5, 327

  atomists (see also Democritus; Leucippus), 33, 54, 58, 181–204

  Aristotle on, 181–7, 189, 193–5

  atoms, 16, 182–85, 221

  on chance and necessity, 185–89

  compared with Anaxagoras and Empedocles, 182

  on indivisibility, 182–3

  on motion, 183–5

  never mentioned by Plato, 7, 181

  principle of Sufficient Reason, 182–3

  responding to Eleatics, 181–3

  on secondary qualities, 190–3

  theology, 220–2

  void, 183–4

  Babylon, 16

  Baconian theory of science, 61–3

  Barnes, J., 19 n6, 20 n21, 44 n48, 177 n1, 178 n13, 203 n12

  Being (see also Parmenides; Gorgias), 27, 54, 170, 306

  Bias, 89

  biographies of early philosophers, 34

  relation to doxography, 22, 35

  blood, 80, 219, 251, 261

  body, and soul, 251–3

  brain, 80, 252–3

  Burkert, W., 68–9, 73

  Burnet, J., 19 n8, 19 n12, 64 n19, 122

  Butler, J., 198

  calendar, 45

  Callicles, 198, 324, 328 n2

  cause(s) (see also Aristotle; Hippocratics; explanation; principles; prophasis), 271–89

  as treated by historians, 276–9

  aitia, aition, aitios, 271, 274–84

  in atomists, 185–9

  conceived as culpability, 274–7, 281, 282–3, 285

  conceived as power, 273, 286

  and concomitant factors, 283

  denial of spontaneity, 283

  and effect, 277, 279, 284, 348

  few in number, 348

  in Hippocratics, 279–86

  Humean conception of, 272

  new conception in On ancient medicine, 284–6

  not explicitly theorized by early philosophers, 271–2, 274–6

  chance, 185–9, 223

  Chaos, 46

  Cherniss, H., 41 n23

  Christian transmission of early Greek philosophy, 37–8, 108

  Chrysippus, 31, 35

  Cicero, 23, 25, 40 n4, 42 n30

  Cleanthes, 17

  Clement of Alexandria, 37

  Clidemus, 257, 264

  competition (agôn), as feature of early Greek philosophy, 10, 16, 352

  compounds,

  in Anaxagoras and Empedocles, 159–62, 163–4, 166–7, 171–5

  in the atomists, 182

  condensation and rarefaction, 57–9

  contradiction, impossibility of, xxv, 300, 302

  convention (nomos; see also nature), 190, 198–9, 300–1

  Cornford, F. M., 122

  cosmogony, 46

  cosmology,

  Anaxagoras, XVII, 162–3

  atomists, 185–9

  Empedocles, 159–63

  Heraclitus, 89, 98–101

  Milesian beginnings, 5, 11, 47–65

  Parmenides, 122–5, 169–70

  Philolaus, 79, 82

  scope, 11

  theological dimension, 205–7

  Cratylus, 43 n35, 99

  Critias, 222–3, 292, 330 n17

  criticism

  of anthropomorphic gods, 59–60, 209–11

  of authorities, 9–11, 88–90, 231, 233–4, 334, 337–8, 353

  of law, see Antiphon

  of popular beliefs, 2, 13, 15, 88, 95

  Cudworth, R., 53

  Cynics, 33

  daimôn, 71, 103–4, 273

  day, see night

  death, 47, 70, 101–3, 213, 325, 357–8

  democracy (see also law; Athens; Protagoras; Antiphon), xx, 294, 317–18, 323

  Democrates, xix–xx

  Democritus (see also atomists), 181–204

  on aitia, 275, 287 n5

  compared to Socrates, 7, 197

  on conscience, 198–9

  cosmology, 186–9

  epistemology, 189–96, 257

  ethics and politics, 197–9, 222, 253

  ethics in relation to atomism, 200–1

  life and writings, XIX–XX

  on mind, soul, and thought, 196–7, 252–3

  on necessity, 185–9, 228

  poetics, 339, 353

  relation to

  Leucippus, 181; to Protagoras, 8, 33, 189, 193, 195, 199, 307

  and scepticism, 18, 33, 190–6

  scope of interests, 12

  on sensation, 190–6, 257, 264

  sources for, 28, 30, 34, 37, 39

  theology, 220–2

  “truth is in the depths,” 190

  on vision, 264

  Derveni papyrus, 112 n35, 341

  Descartes, R., 215, 250

  Diels, H.

  doxographical work, 23–6, 30, 33, 35–6

  and Presocratics, 5–6, 19 n11

  dikê, see justice

  Diller, H., 286, 288 n21

  Diogenes Laertius, 24, 32–6, 67

  Diogenes of Apollonia,

  on air, 252–3, 258, 348

  on divinity of first principle, 18, 206–7, 221

  life and writings, xx, 350

  reflected in Derveni papyrus, 341

  on sensation and thought, 258–9, 264–5

  on soul and mind, 252, 260

  sources for, 33, 38–9

  Dissoi logoi (“Twofold arguments”), 292, 318, 329 n13

  divine inspiration,

  Democritus on, 339, 353

  divinity (see also theology)

  in Anaximander, 53, 120

  in Anaximenes, 53, 120

  in atomists, 221–2

  Critias on, 222

  in Diogenes of Apollonia, 221

  in Empedocles, 216–20, 355–6

  in Heraclitus, 120, 212–14

  as human invention, 222–3

  interpreted allegorically, 340

  in Melissus, 120

  in Parmenides, 113–14, 123, 214–16, 353–5

  Prodicus on, xxv

  Protagoras on, 306–7

  in Thales, 53

  in Xenophanes, 209–12, 338

  divisibility, see arguments against; Anaxagoras; Zeno of Elea

  doxography (see also Aetius; Theophrastus; Placita), 22–44

  dialectical aspect

  in Aristotle, 28–31

  in Hippocratics, 285

  in Plato, 27–8

  in Seneca, 31–2

  in Theophrastus, 30–1

  doxai (“tenets”), 23, 29

  relation to biography, 22, 35

  dry and wet, 48, 79, 100, 102, 162–3, 251, 254

  dualism, see Parmenides; body, and soul

  earth, the (see also elements),

  in Anaxagoras, 163

  in Anaximander, 47–8

  in Anaximenes, 57–9

  in Hesiod, 46

  stability of, 52, 59

  in Thales, 50–2

  in Xenophanes, 60, 209

  education,

  based on Homer and Hesiod, 4, 334

  as philosophical goal, 13–15

  by sophists, 12, 290–3

  Egypt, xix, xxvi, 16, 70–1

  eikos (“probable,
plausible”) (see also relativism; sophists; Thucydides), 272, 296–8, 301, 304, 308

  Elea, 2

  Eleatics (see also Melissus; Parmenides; Zeno), 2, 15, 32–3, 54, 144, 166, 172–6, 181–2, 258

  refuted by Gorgias, 306

  elements (see also pinciple(s)), 50, 57, 347

  of Anaxagoras, 163–5, 170–1

  of Empedocles, 76, 160–1

  of Parmenides, 123–4, 237

  Eliot, T. S., 18

  emanations, 264

  Empedocles, 2, 14, 159–62, 164–78, 182, 207–8

  as self-proclaimed god and miracle worker, 75, 77, 220, 355, 361 n29

  cosmic cycle, 160–2, 216–19, 349, 356

  cosmic Sphere, 160, 216–19, 267

  criticized, 285

  fate of daimones, 77, 217–18, 252, 356

  four-element theory, 54, 76, 159–60, 164, 173, 216–17, 267, 348

  holy mind, 260

  life and writings, xx–xxi, 350

  “like knows like,” 243–4, 269 n23

  Love and Strife/Hate, 76, 160–1, 164, 216–20, 266–7, 273

  on mixture, 159–62, 165–7

  on natural selection, 161

  no becoming or perishing, 166–7, 174–5, 242

  on one and many, 161–2

  on physiology of sensation, 264–7

  poetry, 4, 162, 333, 353, 355–7, 359–60

  on psychê, 251–2

  rejection of blood sacrifice, 2, 76–7

  relation to

  atomists, 182

  later Eleatic objections, 172–6

  Parmenides, 165–72, 174–6, 241–2

  Pythagoras, 72, 75–8, 162,

  on sense perception, 262, 266–7

  sources for, 28, 33–4, 36, 38–9

  theology, 216–20

  on thought, mind, and knowledge, 219–20, 241–45, 256, 258, 266–7

  on transmigration of souls, 70–1, 75, 162, 217

  unity of thought, 75

  zoogony, 161, 216, 224 n10

  Epaminondas, 84

  Epicharmus, 226

  Epicureans, 23, 33–4, 198–9

  Epicurus, 17–18, 33, 59, 61, 181

  debt to Democritus, 17, 181

  epistemology (see also criticism; relativism; scepticism; sensation; truth; wisdom; Democritus; Empedocles; Gorgias; Heraclitus; Parmenides; Protagoras; Xenophanes), 225–49

  a priori versus empirical, 238–41

  divine versus human, 228–31

  empirical inquiry, 230–1, 234–5

  grasping causal origin, 349

  grasping essential nature, 235–6, 244–5

  philosophical optimism, 226–8

  pluralist, 245

  poetic pessimism, 225–6

  poets’ claims to knowledge, 343

  equality before the law, 321

  Eros, in Hesiod, 46–7

  ethics (see also justice; Socrates; sophists),

  in Democritus, XIX, 197–9, 222

  in Heraclitus, 103–4

  of Homer, 340

  and theology, 222–3

  in Xenophanes, 209–11, 337–8, 353

  euboulia (“good judgement”) (see also Protagoras), 296–8, 308, 320

  Eudemus, 52, 127

  Euripides, 14, 222

  Eurytus, 78, 84

 

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