You are able to search for more information in greater and/or surrounding areas by choosing one of the titles below and clicking on "more". Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinksĪ dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. 1830, 8vo, with a copious dissertation on his philosophy. The fragments of Diogenes have been collectedĪnd published, with those of Anaxagoras, by Schorn, Bonn, 1829, 8vo and aloneīy Panzerbeiter, Lips. Original, has been translated according to Panzerbeiter's explanation, not asīeing entirely satisfactory, but as being the best that has hitherto been proposed.ĭiogenes also imputed to air an intellectual energy, though without recognizingĪny distinction between mind and matter. Hardening from cold." The last paragraph, which is extremely obscure in the ![]() Its shape from the whirling round of the warm vapours, and its concretion and To nothing that the earth was round, supported in the middle, and had received Members of the universe that nothing was produced from nothing, or was reduced Worlds, and an infinite void that air, densified and rarified, produced the different Philosophical opinions given by Diogenes Lartius :-" He maintained thatĪir was the primal element of all things that there was an infinite number of Of the origin and distribution of the veins. The third book of his History of Animals, and which contains an interesting description The longest of these is that which is inserted by Aristotle in ![]() Work only a few short fragments remain, preserved by Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius,Īnd Simplicius. To have treated of physical science in the largest sense of the words. On Nature," which consisted of at least two hooks, and in which he appears ix.57.) He wrote a work in the Ionic dialect, entitled Peri Phuseos, " Diogenes Apolloniates, (Diogenes ho Apolloniates), an eminent natural philosopher, who lived in the fifth century B. That his philosophical opinions were dangerous to the religion of the state. Trouble from some unknown cause, which is conjectured to have been the supposition Diogenes of Apollonia (/ d a d n i z / dy-OJ-in-eez Ancient Greek:, romanized: Diogéns ho Apollniáts fl. Of the events of his life, except that he was once at Athens, and there got into He was a native of Apollonia in Crete, hisįather's name was Apollothemis, and he was a pupil of Anaximenes. See Ionian' School.Diogenes Apolloniates, (Diogenes ho Apolloniates), an eminent natural philosopher, Panzerbieter, Diogenes Apolloniates (1830), with philosophical dissertation J. Mullach, Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum, i. His most important work was 11Epi cuo ew ( De natura), of which considerable fragments are extant (chiefly in Simplicius) it is possible that he wrote also Against the Sophists and On the Nature of Man, to which the well-known fragment about the veins would belong possibly these discussions were subdivisions of his great work.įragments in F. The air as the origin of all things is necessarily an eternal, imperishable substance, but as soul it is also necessarily endowed with consciousness." In fact, he belonged to the old Ionian school, whose doctrines he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, although he avoided his dualism. His chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence- "the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed. Like Anaximenes, he believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction. The views of Diogenes are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of Aristophanes to Socrates. There seems no doubt that he lived some time at Athens, where it is said that he became so unpopular (probably owing to his supposed atheistical opinions) that his life was in danger. ![]() ![]() Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (physical philosophers). 460 B.C.), Greek natural philosopher, was a native of Apollonia in Crete.
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