
Heraclides of Pontus on nature
Author(s) -
Eugene Afonasin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
shole
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.191
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1995-4336
pISSN - 1995-4328
DOI - 10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-2-733-739
Subject(s) - soul , nothing , philosophy , literature , politics , art history , art , epistemology , law , political science
Heraclides of Pontus (c. 388–310 BCE), a Platonic philosopher, worked in various literary genres. He discussed such typical Platonic topics as the transmigration of the soul, composed philosophical lives, dialogues or treaties about politics, literature, history, geography, etc., and wrote a series of works on astronomy and the philosophy of nature. Nothing is preserved. The present publication contains a collection of scant doxographic testimonies about Heraclides’ lost physical writings. The evidences are translated and numbered according to a new edition by Schütrumpf et al. 2008.