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Headword:
Thalês
Adler number: theta,17
Translated headword: Thales
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Examyas and Kleobouline; Milesian, but as
Herodotos [says] Phoenician.[1] He lived before the time of Kroisos, in the 35th Olympiad,[2] but according to Phlegon he was already known in the 7th.[3] He wrote on astronomical phenomena in hexameters,
On the Equinox, and many other works. He died an old man, while watching a sports event, being squeezed by the crowd and fainting from the heat.
Thales was the first to have the name of Sage, and first proclaimed the soul immortal, and understood eclipses and equinoxes.[4] His apophthegms are very numerous: "know thyself" is the one constantly repeated.[5] For "make a pledge and suffer for it" belongs rather to Chilon, who appropriated it.[6] Also[7] "nothing in excess."
Greek Original:Thalês, Examuou kai Kleoboulinês, Milêsios, hôs de Hêrodotos Phoinix: gegonôs pro Kroisou, epi tês le# olumpiados, kata de Phlegonta gnôrizomenos êdê epi tês z#. egrapse peri meteôrôn en epesi, Peri isêmerias, kai alla polla. eteleutêse de gêraios, theômenos gumnikon agôna, pilêtheis de hupo tou ochlou kai eklutheis hupo tou kaumatos. prôtos de Thalês to tou sophou eschen onoma kai prôtos tên psuchên eipen athanaton ekleipseis te kai isêmerias kateilêphen. apophthegmata de autou pleista: kai to thrulloumenon: gnôthi sauton. to gar, engua, para d' ata, Chilônos esti mallon, idiopoiêsamenou auto: kai to, mêden agan.
Notes:
OCD4 s.v. '
Thales' and 'Seven Sages'. See also
theta 18 (and
theta 19). The material of the present entry has close affinities with parts of the biography of Th. by
Diogenes Laertius (1.22-23 and 39-40).
[1] i.e. by descent (
Herodotus 1.170.3, web address 1).
[2] 640-637.
[3] 752-749. (For Phlegon see
phi 527.)
[4] For
Thales' prediction of a solar eclipse (probably May 28, 585) see
Herodotus 1.74 (web address 2, cf. J. Burnet,
Early Greek Philosophy 35), and under
theta 18.
[5] cf.
gamma 333 and
gamma 334.
[6] See Diog.Laert. 2.73. (For Chilon see
chi 311.)
[7] Meaning also attributed, by some, to Chilon: see Diog.Laert. 2.39.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: athletics; biography; chronology; daily life; ethics; geography; medicine; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; proverbs; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 28 November 2001@16:58:01.
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