Categoria: Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy
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chôra
CHORA (χώρα). Place; Space. In Timaeus 52, Plato identifies the receptacle (hypodoche) with “space.” The implication of the passage seems to be that space pre-exists, in some sense, the appearance of phenomena (phainomena) in space. In Physics IV. 1, Aristotle argues for “place” (topos) rather than “space,” i.e., there is no pre-existing or independently existing…
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Dioniso
The traditional view of Dionysos’ worship as an import from Thrace or Phrygia was called into question with the discovery of the name Dionysos on Linear B tablets from Pylos, which show that the name, and probably the god, was known to Bronze Age Greeks. While Dionysiac myths present this most exotic of the Olympians…
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rhetorike
Ῥητορική. Rhetoric, the art of the rhetor, or public speaker. In the latter part of the Phaedrus there is a very interesting summary of the “Art of Rhetoric” as it was taught at the end of the 5th century BCE. Socrates mentions as teachers of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini and his student Polus, Thrasymachus, Theodorus…
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synagoge
Συνάγειν, συναγωγή, συνακτικός. To bring together, collect; a collection. Synagoge is the title of a lost book by Hippias of Elis that seems to have summarized the opinions of earlier thinkers. Plato uses the word as something close to “induction,” gathering together the examples before dividing them (diairesis). This “method of collection and division” appears…
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aither
gr. αιθήρ, aithêr: éter. Trata-se do éter, este corpo eterno, inalterável e imapssível do qual se compõe o céu. O éter não sofre por natureza nenhum corrimento. Sendo composto de éter, o corpo dos astros permanece então perfeitamente imutável. “Ether.” In early Greek thought, including the poets, aither is the purer air breathed by the…