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La supposta identificazione di un Nilo2

  • Livio Rossetti
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Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy
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Abstract

Among the doctrines ascribed to Thales, his conjecture on what is likely to cause Nile’s floods has a special interest since some time later Euthymenes of Massalia wrote a report of his superb navigation made outside the Columns of Heracles until the mouth of the river now known as the Senegal, and claimed to have seen the other mouth of the Nile. The fact is hardly doubtful for many reasons, to begin with what is reported about Hecataeus of Miletus, who is said to have claimed that the river Halys has two mouths, one in the Pontus Euxinus and the other in the Caspian Sea (understood as part of the Oceanus surrounding the earth), and the same happens with the Nile. To our relief, in what Euthymenes is said to have reported it is relatively easy to distinguish facts from ungrounded conjectures. His conjectures unveil how great Thales’ prestige is likely to have been to his eyes, at least.

Abstract

Among the doctrines ascribed to Thales, his conjecture on what is likely to cause Nile’s floods has a special interest since some time later Euthymenes of Massalia wrote a report of his superb navigation made outside the Columns of Heracles until the mouth of the river now known as the Senegal, and claimed to have seen the other mouth of the Nile. The fact is hardly doubtful for many reasons, to begin with what is reported about Hecataeus of Miletus, who is said to have claimed that the river Halys has two mouths, one in the Pontus Euxinus and the other in the Caspian Sea (understood as part of the Oceanus surrounding the earth), and the same happens with the Nile. To our relief, in what Euthymenes is said to have reported it is relatively easy to distinguish facts from ungrounded conjectures. His conjectures unveil how great Thales’ prestige is likely to have been to his eyes, at least.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy 1
  4. Part I: Archaic Voices: Reconstructing and Interpreting Ancient Greek Thought
  5. The 'Sentence' of Anaximander 11
  6. La supposta identificazione di un Nilo2 33
  7. Phérécyde astronome 45
  8. La prose de Phérécyde de Syros comme pratique signifiante 77
  9. Héraclite et la satire de ses prédécesseurs : le cas de Pythagore 99
  10. Vérité et référence 125
  11. ‘Paying heed to the deceitful order of words’ 141
  12. Les limites du politique selon Les Sept contre Thèbes d’Eschyle 173
  13. Verso una rivalutazione di Diogene di Apollonia, filosofo e fisiologo monista 199
  14. Part II: Altered Echoes : Archaic Greek Thought in Different Times and Lands
  15. Aristotle on Parmenides’ Changeless Being and the Foundations of Physics 225
  16. L’usage de la théorie de l’intellect d’Anaxagore dans le commentaire de Simplicius à la Physique 261
  17. Revisiting the Greek Origins of Islamic Atomism 275
  18. A puzzle of motivation: Greco-Roman echoes in Sahagún’s Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España 303
  19. The Deficit of Balance between Power and Justice since Plato 327
  20. Les paroles de la pensée 337
  21. Orphée juif lisant sa main 355
  22. Cavafy antiquisant 369
  23. Index Auctorum Recentiorum 377
  24. Index Fontium 383
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561448-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy 1
  4. Part I: Archaic Voices: Reconstructing and Interpreting Ancient Greek Thought
  5. The 'Sentence' of Anaximander 11
  6. La supposta identificazione di un Nilo2 33
  7. Phérécyde astronome 45
  8. La prose de Phérécyde de Syros comme pratique signifiante 77
  9. Héraclite et la satire de ses prédécesseurs : le cas de Pythagore 99
  10. Vérité et référence 125
  11. ‘Paying heed to the deceitful order of words’ 141
  12. Les limites du politique selon Les Sept contre Thèbes d’Eschyle 173
  13. Verso una rivalutazione di Diogene di Apollonia, filosofo e fisiologo monista 199
  14. Part II: Altered Echoes : Archaic Greek Thought in Different Times and Lands
  15. Aristotle on Parmenides’ Changeless Being and the Foundations of Physics 225
  16. L’usage de la théorie de l’intellect d’Anaxagore dans le commentaire de Simplicius à la Physique 261
  17. Revisiting the Greek Origins of Islamic Atomism 275
  18. A puzzle of motivation: Greco-Roman echoes in Sahagún’s Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España 303
  19. The Deficit of Balance between Power and Justice since Plato 327
  20. Les paroles de la pensée 337
  21. Orphée juif lisant sa main 355
  22. Cavafy antiquisant 369
  23. Index Auctorum Recentiorum 377
  24. Index Fontium 383
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