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The term doxa is an ancient Greek noun related to the verb dokein (δοκεῖν), meaning 'to appear, to seem, to think, to accept'. [1]Between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, the term picked up an additional meaning when the Septuagint used doxa to translate the Biblical Hebrew word for "glory" (כבוד, kavod).
1-200 AD: Politicus 257B, 261D-262C: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library Papyrus 187 : 1-250 AD: Laches 181a8-182a4: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library Papyrus 2048 : 100-300 AD: Phaedrus: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library P.Oxy.LII 3667 : 200-300 AD: Alcibiades II 142 B-143 C: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford P.Oxy.XV 1808 ...
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Successions of Philosophers were works whose purpose was to depict the philosophers of different schools in terms of a line of succession of which they were a part. From the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC there were Successions (Greek: Διαδοχαί) written by Antigonus of Carystus, Sotion, Heraclides Lembos (an epitome of Sotion), Sosicrates, Alexander Polyhistor, Jason of Nysa, Antisthenes ...
The Greek gods Athene and Apollo collect 10,000 human children from throughout history, and place them on the island of Thera prior to its volcanic destruction.There, a collection of adult supervisors (who are likewise from throughout history) will raise the children to achieve the ideal society as described in Plato's Republic – which becomes much more difficult when Socrates arrives.
[a] His dates are uncertain; according to doxographer Diogenes Laërtius, he flourished just before 500 BC, [b] which would put his year of birth near 540 BC, but in the dialogue Parmenides Plato has him visiting Athens at the age of 65, when Socrates was a young man, c. 450 BC, [c] which, if true, suggests a year of birth of c. 515 BC. [1]
The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista [1]) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stranger employ the method of division in order to classify and define the sophist and describe his essential attributes and differentia vis a vis the philosopher and statesman.
The Theaetetus is one of the few works of Plato that gives contextual clues on the timeline of its authorship: The dialogue is framed by a brief scene in which Euclid of Megara and his friend Terpsion witness a wounded Theataetus returning on his way home after from fighting in an Athenian battle at Corinth, from which he apparently died of his wounds.