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Anaxagoras · Arthur Fairbanks (1898)
The first philosopher to make his home in Athens (c. 500–428 BCE) and the teacher of Pericles. He taught that there is a portion of everything in everything, and that a cosmic Mind — Nous — set the boundless primordial mixture whirling and so ordered the world. He held the sun to be a white-hot stone and the moon to shine by borrowed light, and stood trial at Athens for impiety. The fragments, with the ancient testimonia of Plato, Aristotle, and the doxographers — translated by Arthur Fairbanks (1898). ANAXAGORAS of Klazomenae, son of Hegesiboulos, was born in the seventh Olympiad (500-497) and died in the first year of the eighty-eighth Olympiad (428), according to the chronicles of Apollodoros. It is said that he neglected his possessions in his pursuit of philosophy; he began to teach philosophy in the archonship of Kallias at Athens (480). The fall of a meteoric stone at Aegos …
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