Notes - EthoPlasìn

LEGEND

= means a work of literature, science, or art, mostly books.

-  means BC.

+ means AD

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-570/-495

Pythagoras

Pythagore

 

Πυθαγόρας

 

= Pythagorean Theorem

= Tetractys (geometry & soul)

= Sacred Geometry

= Golden Verses

-535/-475

Heraclitus

 

 

Ἡράκλειτος

 

= On Nature

-525/-455 Aeschylus   Eschilo Αἰσχύλος   = Father of Tragedy (preceding Sophocles and Euripides) with the Oresteia trilogy of plays:  Agamemnon, Libation Bearers (Χοηφόροι, Choēphoroi), and Eumenides. 

-469/-399

Socrates

Socrate

Socrate

Σωκράτης

 

 

-446/386

Aristophanes

 

 

ριστοφάνης

 

Father of comedy and Playwright of 40 plays

= 11 plays: The Archanians, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace, The Birds, The Frogs+

-427/-347

Plato

Platon

Platone

Πλάτων

 

 

= Alcibiades

 

 

 

 

Re: Platonic Love

 

= Charmides

 

 

 

 

Re: Temperance

 

= Gorgias

 

 

 

 

Re: Philosopher-King

 

= Lysis

 

 

 

 

Re: Friendship

 

= Parmenides

 

 

 

 

Re: Forms and Archetypes

 

= Phaedrus

 

 

 

 

Re: Love

 

= Republic

 

 

 

 

Re: Democracy (Meritocracy)

 

= Symposium

 

 

 

 

Re: Love

 

= Timaeus

 

 

 

 

Re: World creation by Forms and Patterns

-384/-322

Aristotle

Aristote

Aristotele

ριστοτέλης

 

= Corpus Aristotelicum

-365/-280

Euclid

Euclide

 

Εκλείδης

 

= Father of Geometry

= Elements (and Number Theory)

-341/-270

Epicurus

Epicure

Epicuro

 

 

= Scritti Morali

= Lettere sulla fisica, il cielo e la felicita

-106/-43 

Cicero

Cicéron

Cicerone

 

 

Introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy. Rediscovered by Petrarch, he later influenced Renaissance and Enlightenment (Locke, Hume, Montesquieu).

= Laelius De Amicitia

= De Re Publica

-4/+65

Seneca

Sénèque

Seneca

 

 

= Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

= De Tranquillitate Animi

+46/120

Plutarch

 

 

Πλούταρχος

 

= Parallel Lives (biographies) + Moralia

+55/135

Epictetus

Épictète

Epitteto

 

 

= Manual (of ethical behavior)

+121/180

Marcus Aurelius

Marc Aurèle

Marco Aurelio

 

 

One of the most important members of the Stoic philosophers.

= Meditations

+204/270

Plotinus

 

 

Πλωτνος

 

Founder of Neo-Platonism with A. Saccas.

= The 6 Enneades (edited by Porphyry)

+234/305

Porphyry

 

 

Πορφύριος

 

= The 6 Enneades (on the work of Plotinus)

= Philosophy From The Oracles

= Against the Christians

+412/485

Proclus

 

 

Πρόκλος

 

Neo-Platonism

= Comments on Plato’s : Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus)

+1304/1374

Petrarch

Pétrarque

Petrarca

 

 

Father of humanism.