https://www.superphysics.org/tags/egyptians/ Recent content in Egyptians on Superphysics Hugo en Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-76/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-76/ <p>¹ Herodotus and Duris and Democritus say that Thales was:</p> <ul> <li>the son of Euxamius and Cleobule</li> <li>of the family of the Thelidæ, who are Phœnicians by descent</li> <li>among the most noble of all the descendants of Cadmus and Agenor, as Plato testifies.</li> </ul> <p>He was the first man to whom the name of Wise was given, when Damasius was Archon at Athens, in whose time also the seven wise men had that title given to them, as Demetrius Phalereus records in his Catalogue of the Archons.</p>