person
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
Anaxagoras
Pre-Socratic philosopher (c. 500-428 BC); the first to bring philosophy to Athens; teacher of Pericles.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.104 Finely said by Anaxagoras, who, when he was dying at Lampsacus
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, the Ionian philosopher who died at Lampsacus (c. 428 BC); asked whether he wished to be carried home, he answered that 'from everywhere the road to the underworld is the same length.' A serene dismissal of where one is buried.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.30 For he had been a pupil of Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-428 BC), the Ionian natural philosopher, reputedly a teacher of Euripides. His reply on hearing of his son's death ('I knew that I had fathered a mortal') is a stock consolation-saying.