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Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
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Details
Instance of
human
Born
500 BCE
Died
428 BCE
Place of birth
Klazomenai
Place of death
Lampsacus
Sex or gender
male
Present in work
The Divine Comedy
Movement
Pluralist school
,
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Field of work
astronomy
,
mathematics
,
philosophy
Occupation
mathematician
,
philosopher
,
physicist
,
astronomer
,
writer
birth name
Ἀναξαγόρας
depicted by
Statue of Anaxagoras, Irakleio
described by source
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
,
Encyclopedic Lexicon
,
Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia
,
Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon
,
Pauly–Wissowa
,
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
,
Library of the World's Best Literature
,
The New Student's Reference Work
,
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1
different from
Greece
languages spoken, written or signed
Ancient Greek
name in native language
Ἀναξαγόρας
significant place
Klazomenai
student
Metrodorus of Lampsacus
,
Empedocles
,
Carneades of Athens
time period
ancient history
writing language
Ancient Greek
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
On Nature
Appears in
The Divine Comedy
Subject of
Anaxagoras 4 (Pauly-Wissowa)
EB-11 / Anaxagoras
EB-9 / Anaxagoras
The New Student's Reference Work/Anaxagoras
DGRBM-1870 / Anaxagoras 1.
Philosophy program for Italian high school
Depicted in
Statue of Anaxagoras, Irakleio
Influenced
Socrates
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