Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testomonia

by Anaxagoras

Book Overview

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442611634
• ISBN13: 9781442611634
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"