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18 results for "courage"
1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 4.2.33 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in antisthenes Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 352
4.2.33. ἀλλʼ ἥ γέ τοι σοφία, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἀναμφισβητήτως ἀγαθόν ἐστι· ποῖον γὰρ ἄν τις πρᾶγμα οὐ βέλτιον πράττοι σοφὸς ὢν ἢ ἀμαθής; τί δέ; τὸν Δαίδαλον, ἔφη, οὐκ ἀκήκοας ὅτι ληφθεὶς ὑπὸ Μίνω διὰ τὴν σοφίαν ἠναγκάζετο ἐκείνῳ δουλεύειν καὶ τῆς τε πατρίδος ἅμα καὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἐστερήθη καὶ ἐπιχειρῶν ἀποδιδράσκειν μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τόν τε παῖδα ἀπώλεσε καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἐδυνήθη σωθῆναι, ἀλλʼ ἀπενεχθεὶς εἰς τοὺς βαρβάρους πάλιν ἐκεῖ ἐδούλευε; λέγεται νὴ Δίʼ, ἔφη, ταῦτα. τὰ δὲ Παλαμήδους οὐκ ἀκήκοας πάθη; τοῦτον γὰρ δὴ πάντες ὑμνοῦσιν ὡς διὰ σοφίαν φθονηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως ἀπόλλυται. λέγεται καὶ ταῦτα, ἔφη. ἄλλους δὲ πόσους οἴει διὰ σοφίαν ἀνασπάστους πρὸς βασιλέα γεγονέναι καὶ ἐκεῖ δουλεύειν; 4.2.33. But wisdom now, Socrates, — that at any rate is indisputably a good thing; for what is there that a wise man would not do better than a fool? Indeed! have you not heard how Daedalus was seized by Minos because of his wisdom, and was forced to be his slave, and was robbed of his country and his liberty, and essaying to escape with his son, lost the boy and could not save himself, but was carried off to the barbarians and again lived as a slave there? That is the story, of course. And have you not heard the story of Palamedes? Surely, for all the poets sing of him, how that he was envied for his wisdom and done to death by Odysseus. Another well-known tale! And how many others, do you suppose, have been kidnapped on account of their wisdom, and haled off to the great King’s court, and live in slavery there? 4.2.33. But wisdom now, Socrates, — that at any rate is indisputably a good thing; for what is there that a wise man would not do better than a fool?" "Indeed! have you not heard how Daedalus was seized by Minos because of his wisdom, and was forced to be his slave, and was robbed of his country and his liberty, and essaying to escape with his son, lost the boy and could not save himself, but was carried off to the barbarians and again lived as a slave there?" "That is the story, of course." "And have you not heard the story of Palamedes? Surely, for all the poets sing of him, how that he was envied for his wisdom and done to death by Odysseus." "Another well-known tale!" "And how many others, do you suppose, have been kidnapped on account of their wisdom, and haled off to the great King's court, and live in slavery there?"
2. Antisthenes, Fragments, 53.1, 54.6, 54.8, 54.9, 54.10, 54.13, 54.14, 156, 176, 22, 41, 54 (odysseus) (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 342
3. Isocrates, Helen, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in antisthenes Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 352
1. Speech 10 HelenThere are some who are much pleased with themselves if, after setting up an absurd and self-contradictory subject, they succeed in discussing it in tolerable fashion; and men have grown old, some asserting that it is impossible to say, or to gainsay, what is false, or to speak on both sides of the same questions, others maintaining that courage and wisdom and justice are identical, and that we possess none of these as natural qualities, but that there is one sort of knowledge concerned with them all.; and still others waste their time in captious disputations that are not only entirely useless, but are sure to make trouble for their disciples.
4. Antisthenes, Fragments, 53.1, 54.6, 54.8, 54.9, 54.10, 54.13, 54.14, 156, 176, 22, 41, 54 (odysseus) (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 342
5. Antisthenes of Rhodes, Fragments, 53.1, 54.6, 54.8, 54.9, 54.10, 54.13, 54.14, 156, 176, 22, 41, 54 (odysseus) (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 342
6. Plutarch, On Having Many Friends, 96a (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
7. Plutarch, Fragments, 93 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
8. Plutarch, Table Talk, 728c, 728b (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
9. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
10. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, 10.452d (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.1, 8.17, 8.33, 8.35 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
8.1. BOOK 8: 1. PYTHAGORASPythagoras Having now completed our account of the philosophy of Ionia starting with Thales, as well as of its chief representatives, let us proceed to examine the philosophy of Italy, which was started by Pythagoras, son of the gem-engraver Mnesarchus, and according to Hermippus, a Samian, or, according to Aristoxenus, a Tyrrhenian from one of those islands which the Athenians held after clearing them of their Tyrrhenian inhabitants. Some indeed say that he was descended through Euthyphro, Hippasus and Marmacus from Cleonymus, who was exiled from Phlius, and that, as Marmacus lived in Samos, so Pythagoras was called a Samian. 8.17. The following were his watchwords or precepts: don't stir the fire with a knife, don't step over the beam of a balance, don't sit down on your bushel, don't eat your heart, don't help a man off with a load but help him on, always roll your bed-clothes up, don't put God's image on the circle of a ring, don't leave the pan's imprint on the ashes, don't wipe up a mess with a torch, don't commit a nuisance towards the sun, don't walk the highway, don't shake hands too eagerly, don't have swallows under your own roof, don't keep birds with hooked claws, don't make water on nor stand upon your nail-and hair-trimmings, turn the sharp blade away, when you go abroad don't turn round at the frontier. 8.33. Right has the force of an oath, and that is why Zeus is called the God of Oaths. Virtue is harmony, and so are health and all good and God himself; this is why they say that all things are constructed according to the laws of harmony. The love of friends is just concord and equality. We should not pay equal worship to gods and heroes, but to the gods always, with reverent silence, in white robes, and after purification, to the heroes only from midday onwards. Purification is by cleansing, baptism and lustration, and by keeping clean from all deaths and births and all pollution, and abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg-sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform rites in the sanctuaries. 8.35. Not to break bread; for once friends used to meet over one loaf, as the barbarians do even to this day; and you should not divide bread which brings them together; some give as the explanation of this that it has reference to the judgement of the dead in Hades, others that bread makes cowards in war, others again that it is from it that the whole world begins.He held that the most beautiful figure is the sphere among solids, and the circle among plane figures. Old age may be compared to everything that is decreasing, while youth is one with increase. Health means retention of the form, disease its destruction. of salt he said it should be brought to table to remind us of what is right; for salt preserves whatever it finds, and it arises from the purest sources, sun and sea.
12. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 154, 196, 231, 42, 85-86, 84 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
13. Iamblichus, Protrepticus, 112.24-113.7, 113.19, 113.20, 113.21, 113.22, 113.23, 113.24, 113.25, 117.7-118.3, pp. 47.24-48.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
14. Demetrius of Byzantium, Apud Ath., 10.452d  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13
18. Aristotle, Protrepticus, apud iamb. protr. 8.47.24-8.48.2  Tagged with subjects: •courage (andreia), in pythagorean acusmata Found in books: Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 13