![]() ![]() ![]() c And for a while, it is said, he prosecuted his studies in common with the other philosophers, but afterwards put forward independent views by the foundation of the school called after him. ![]() For some time he stayed there and gathered disciples, but returned to Athens in the archonship of Anaxicrates. Upon the death of Alexander of Macedon and the expulsion of the Athenian settlers from Samos by Perdiccas, b Epicurus left Athens to join his father in Colophon. He is said by Heraclides a in his Epitome of Sotion, as well as by other authorities, to have been brought up at Samos after the Athenians had sent settlers there and to have come to Athens at the age of eighteen, at the time when Xenocrates was lecturing at the Academy and Aristotle in Chalcis. 32.Epicurus, son of Neocles and Chaerestrate, was a citizen of Athens of the deme Gargettus, and, as Metrodorus says in his book On Noble Birth, of the family of the Philaidae. Power of forecasting the weather or the seasons, on the strength of his scientific attainments. Recta, interrupting the extract from Antisthenes, finds itsĬounterpart in the stories attributing to Democritus the Demetrius, however, says that it was not Democritus himself but his relatives who read the Great Diacosmos, and that the sum awarded was 100 talents only with this account Hippobotus agrees.Īristoxenus in his Historical Notes affirms that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus that he could collect, but that Amyclas and Clinias Democritus, understanding this, and fearing lest he should be at the mercy of any envious or unscrupulous prosecutors, read aloud to the people his treatise, the Great Diacosmos, the best of all his works and then he was rewarded with 500 talents and, more than that, with bronze statues as well and when he died, he received a public funeral after a lifetime of more than a century. a There was a law, says Antisthenes, that no one who had squandered his patrimony should be buried in his native city. But his reputation rose owing to his having foretold certain future events and after that the public deemed him worthy of the honour paid to a god. The same authority states that, when he returned from his travels, he was reduced to a humble mode of life because he had exhausted his means and, because of his poverty, he was supported by his brother Damasus. He would train himself, says Antisthenes, by a variety of means to test his sense-impressions by going at times into solitude and frequenting tombs. Apollodorus of Cyzicus, again, will have it that he lived with Philolaus. He was taught by one of the Pythagoreans, and Glaucus was his contemporary. ![]() But Eubulides in his book on Diogenes says that Diogenes himself did this and was forced to leave home along with his father. Diocles relates that he went into exile because his father was entrusted with the money of the state and adulterated the coinage. ![]()
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