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subject	book bibliographic info
anaxarchus	Long (2006) 74, 85, 89, 157 Taylor (2012) 23
anaxarchus, atomism, of	Wolfsdorf (2020) 686, 687, 689, 690
anaxarchus, cicero, as source for	Wolfsdorf (2020) 687
anaxarchus, democritus, and	Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690
anaxarchus, law, nomos, and power in	Wolfsdorf (2020) 692, 693
anaxarchus, of abdera	Baumann and Liotsakis (2022) 203 Levine Allison and Crossan (2006) 386
anaxarchus, pyrrho, and	Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 690, 691
anaxarchus, xxv	Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698
anaxarchus, xxv, and indifference regarding value	Wolfsdorf (2020) 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 695
anaxarchus, xxv, attitude to law and custom	Wolfsdorf (2020) 691, 692, 693, 694, 695
anaxarchus, xxv, textual evidence	Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 695, 696, 697, 698

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "anaxarchus"

1. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anaxarchus of Abdera • Anaxarchus xxv • Anaxarchus xxv, attitude to law and custom • Anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence • law (nomos), and power in Anaxarchus

Found in books: Baumann and Liotsakis (2022) 203; Wolfsdorf (2020) 692, 693, 697

2. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anaxarchus • Anaxarchus xxv • Anaxarchus xxv, and indifference regarding value • Anaxarchus xxv, attitude to law and custom • Anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence • Cicero, as source for Anaxarchus • Democritus, and Anaxarchus • atomism, of Anaxarchus

Found in books: Long (2006) 85; Wolfsdorf (2020) 687, 688, 695

3. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 9.61-9.63, 9.67 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anaxarchus • Anaxarchus xxv • Anaxarchus xxv, and indifference regarding value • Anaxarchus xxv, attitude to law and custom • Anaxarchus xxv, textual evidence • Democritus, and Anaxarchus • Pyrrho, and Anaxarchus • atomism, of Anaxarchus

Found in books: Long (2006) 74, 85; Wolfsdorf (2020) 680, 681, 682, 683, 690, 695, 696

9.61. 11. PYRRHOPyrrho of Elis was the son of Pleistarchus, as Diocles relates. According to Apollodorus in his Chronology, he was first a painter; then he studied under Stilpo's son Bryson: thus Alexander in his Successions of Philosophers. Afterwards he joined Anaxarchus, whom he accompanied on his travels everywhere so that he even forgathered with the Indian Gymnosophists and with the Magi. This led him to adopt a most noble philosophy, to quote Ascanius of Abdera, taking the form of agnosticism and suspension of judgement. He denied that anything was honourable or dishonourable, just or unjust. And so, universally, he held that there is nothing really existent, but custom and convention govern human action; for no single thing is in itself any more this than that." "9.62. He led a life consistent with this doctrine, going out of his way for nothing, taking no precaution, but facing all risks as they came, whether carts, precipices, dogs or what not, and, generally, leaving nothing to the arbitrament of the senses; but he was kept out of harm's way by his friends who, as Antigonus of Carystus tells us, used to follow close after him. But Aenesidemus says that it was only his philosophy that was based upon suspension of judgement, and that he did not lack foresight in his everyday acts. He lived to be nearly ninety.This is what Antigonus of Carystus says of Pyrrho in his book upon him. At first he was a poor and unknown painter, and there are still some indifferent torch-racers of his in the gymnasium at Elis." '9.63. He would withdraw from the world and live in solitude, rarely showing himself to his relatives; this he did because he had heard an Indian reproach Anaxarchus, telling him that he would never be able to teach others what is good while he himself danced attendance on kings in their courts. He would maintain the same composure at all times, so that, even if you left him when he was in the middle of a speech, he would finish what he had to say with no audience but himself, although in his youth he had been hasty. often, our informant adds, he would leave his home and, telling no one, would go roaming about with whomsoever he chanced to meet. And once, when Anaxarchus fell into a slough, he passed by without giving him any help, and, while others blamed him, Anaxarchus himself praised his indifference and sang-froid.
9.67. They say that, when septic salves and surgical and caustic remedies were applied to a wound he had sustained, he did not so much as frown. Timon also portrays his disposition in the full account which he gives of him to Pytho. Philo of Athens, a friend of his, used to say that he was most fond of Democritus, and then of Homer, admiring him and continually repeating the lineAs leaves on trees, such is the life of man.He also admired Homer because he likened men to wasps, flies, and birds, and would quote these verses as well:Ay, friend, die thou; why thus thy fate deplore?Patroclus too, thy better, is no more,and all the passages which dwell on the unstable purpose, vain pursuits, and childish folly of man.'". None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
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