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Anaxagoras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Kathleen Freeman
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Extract

Anaxagoras was a man of one book; and that book, save for a few quotations in other authors and several summaries, is lost. A very potent and tantalizing book it must have been, to judge from all that we hear of it; the opinion of antiquity, preserved in Diogenes Laertius, was that its doctrines were expounded ‘in a pleasant and lofty style’, and the fragments which remain confirm this judgement. It was not merely a philosophical or scientific treatise; it was a work of art, in which the style rose and fell with the subject-matter.

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 4 , Issue 11 , February 1935 , pp. 65 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1935

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References

page 68 note 1 In EGP4, Burnet prefers the view that Anaxagoras' residence in Athens occurred twenty years earlier, from 480–450 b.c.