https://www.superphysics.org/tags/pre-socratic/ Recent content in Pre-Socratic on Superphysics Hugo en Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-57/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-57/ <p>¹ Parmenides was:</p> <ul> <li>the son of Pyres</li> <li>a citizen of Velia</li> <li>a pupil of Xenophanes</li> </ul> <p>Theophrastus, in his Abridgment, says that he was also a pupil of Anaximander. However, though he was a pupil of Xenophanes, he was not afterwards a follower of his; but he attached himself to Aminias, and Diochaetes the Pythagorean, as Sotion relates, which last was a poor but honourable and virtuous man. And he it was whose follower he became, and after he was dead he erected a shrine, or ἡρῷον, in his honour. And so Parmenides, who was of a noble family and possessed of considerable wealth, was induced, not by Xenophanes but by Aminias, to embrace the tranquil life of a philosopher.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-81/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-81/ <p>¹ Xenophanes was:</p> <ul> <li>the son of Dexius, or, as Apollodorus says, of Orthomenes. He was a citizen of Colophon; and is praised by Timon.</li> </ul> <p>Accordingly, he says:</p> <p>Xenophanes, not much a slave to vanity, The wise reprover of the tricks of Homer.</p>