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Classical Athens
The city of Athens during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508-322 BC) was a notable polis (city-state) of Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. Athenian democracy was established in 508 BC under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias. This system remained remarkably stable, and with a few brief interruptions remained in place for 180 years, until 322 BC (aftermath of Lamian War) . The peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known as the Age of Pericles.
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. He was accused of contravening the established religion and was forced to flee to Lampsacus.
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Anthemius of Tralles
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – before 558) (Greek ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician. Of his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles; Alexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence; and Metrodorus was a distinguished grammarian in Constantinople.
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Aristaeus the Elder
Aristaeus the Elder (active 370 BC-300 BC) was a Greek mathematician who worked on conic sections. He was a contemporary of Euclid, though probably older. We know practically nothing of his life except that the mathematician Pappus of Alexandria refers to him as Aristaeus the Elder which presumably means that Pappus was aware of another later mathematician also named Aristaeus. Pappus gave Aristaeus great credit for a work entitled Five Books concerning Solid Loci which was used by Pappus but has been lost. He may have also authored the book Concerning the Comparison of Five Regular Solids. This book has also been lost; we know of it through a reference by the Greek mathematician Hypsicles.
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Bryson of Heraclea
Bryson of Heraclea (late 5th-century BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and sophist who contributed to solving the problem of squaring the circle and calculating pi.
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Chrysippus
Chrysippus of Soli (Ancient Greek: , ; c. 279–c. 206 BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school. When Cleanthes died, around 230 BC, Chrysippus became the third head of the school. A prolific writer, Chrysippus expanded the fundamental doctrines of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the school, which earned him the title of Second Founder of Stoicism.
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Conon of Samos
Conon of Samos (ca. 280 BC - ca. 220 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. He is primarily remembered for naming the constellation Coma Berenices.
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Democritus
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Dinostratus
Dinostratus (, ca. 390 BCE - ca. 320 BCE) was a Greek mathematician and geometer, and the brother of Menaechmus. He is known for using the quadratrix to solve the problem of squaring the circle.
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Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laertius (ancient Greek: , Diogenes Laertios; fl. c. 3rd century) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is one of the principal surviving sources for the history of Greek philosophy.
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Diophantus
Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: . b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost. In studying Arithmetica, Pierre de Fermat
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Eudemus of Rhodes
:Eudemus is also the name of a general of Alexander the Great (died 316 BC).
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Eudoxus of Cnidus (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy. Theodosius of Bithynia's Sphaerics may be based on a work of Eudoxus.
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Geminus
Geminus of Rhodes (), was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC. An astronomy work of his, the Introduction to the Phenomena, still survives; it was intended as an introductory astronomy book for students. He also wrote a work on mathematics, of which only fragments quoted by later authors survive.
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Gorgias
Gorgias (, ca. 485-c.380 BCE) "the Nihilist", Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists he was an itinerant, practicing in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. A special feature of his displays was to invite miscellaneous questions from the audience and give impromptu replies."
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Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos (; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian and has written on Christian faith as well.
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Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (born July 29, 1927) is a Dutch author. Along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: — ; c. 535–c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure," and the "Weeping Philosopher."
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Hippias
Hippias of Elis (; late 5th century BCE) was a Greek Sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates. With an assurance characteristic of the later sophists, he claimed to be regarded as an authority on all subjects, and lectured on poetry, grammar, history, politics, mathematics, and much else. Most of our knowledge of him is derived from Plato, who characterizes him as vain and arrogant.
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Hippo (philosopher)
Hippo (or Hippon, ; 5th century BC) was a Presocratic Greek philosopher. He is variously described as coming from Rhegium, Metapontum, Samos, and Croton, and it is possible that there was more than one philosopher with this name.
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Hippocrates of Chios
Hippocrates of Chios was an ancient Greek mathematician, (geometer), and astronomer, who lived c. 470 – c. 410 BCE.
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Hypsicles
This article is about Hypsicles of Alexandria. For the historian, see Hyspicrates (historian).
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Nicoteles of Cyrene
Nicoteles of Cyrene (c. 250 BCE) was a Greek mathematician from Cyrene.
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Oenopides
:Oenopides is also the name of a lunar crater
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Pappus of Alexandria
Pappus of Alexandria (Greek ) (c. 290 – c. 350) was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of Antiquity, known for his Synagoge or Collection (c. 340), and for Pappus's Theorem in projective geometry. Nothing is known of his life, except (from his own writings) that he had a son named Hermodorus, and was a teacher in Alexandria.
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Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (Greek: ; fl. early 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In The Way of Truth (a part of the poem), he explains how reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In The Way of Opinion, he explains the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of Western philosophy.
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Paul Hornschemeier
Paul Hornschemeier (born 1977) is a graphic novelist based in Chicago, Illinois, known for his thought-provoking explorations of the layered complexities of human life in his work.
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Perseus (geometer)
Perseus (c. 150 BC) was an ancient Greek geometer, who invented the concept of spiric sections, in analogy to the conic sections studied by Apollonius of Perga.
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Pherecydes of Syros
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Philon
Philon, Athenian architect of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the portico of the great Hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis and an arsenal at Athens. Of the last we have exact knowledge from an inscription. E. A. Gardner observes that it "is perhaps known to us more in detail than any other lost monument of antiquity." It was to hold the rigging of the galleys; and was so contrived that all its contents were visible from a central hall, and so liable to the inspection of the Athenian democracy. He is known to have written books on the Athenian arsenal and on the proportions of temple buildings, but these are now lost.
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Plato
:For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation) and Platon (disambiguation).
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Protagoras (Greek: ) (ca. 490– 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue. He is also believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that man is the measure of all things. This idea was very revolutionary for the time and contrasting to other philosophical doctrines that claimed the universe was based on something objective, outside the human influence.
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Pythagoras of Samos (, O Pythagoras o Samios, "Pythagoras the Samian", or simply ; c. 570-c. 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of our information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, thus very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and may have travelled widely in his youth, visiting Egypt and other places seeking knowledge. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, a Greek colony in southern Italy, and there set up a religious sect. His followers pursued the religious rites and practices developed by Pythagoras, and studied his philosophical theories. The society took an active role in the politics of Croton, but this eventually led to their downfall. The Pythagorean meeting-places were burned, and Pythagoras was forced to flee the city. He is said to have ended his days in Metapontum.
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Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 3 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was later forced to commit suicide for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder and his older brother was Gallio.
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Theano (philosopher)
Theano (; 6th-century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher. She was said by many to have been the wife of Pythagoras, although others made her the wife of Brontinus. A few fragments and letters ascribed to her have survived which are of uncertain authorship. She is believed by some historians to have been a student of Pythagoras and later a teacher in the Pythagorean school, which had 28 female Pythagoreans participating in it .
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Theodorus of Cyrene
Theodorus of Cyrene () was a Greek mathematician of the 5th century BC. The only first-hand accounts of him that we have are in two of Plato's dialogues: the Theaetetus and the Sophist. In the former, his student Theaetetus attributes to him the theorem that the square roots of the non-square numbers up to 17 are irrational:
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Theon of Alexandria
Theon (, ca. 335 - ca. 405 AD) was a GreekTihon, Anne, "Theon of Alexandria and Ptolemy's Handy Tables", In Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination. Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. Edited by N.M. Swerdlow. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, p. 357.
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Theon of Smyrna
Theon of Smyrna (fl. 100 CE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were strongly influenced by the Pythagorean school of thought. His surviving On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is an introductory survey of Greek mathematics.
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Thymaridas
Thymaridas of Paros (ca. 400 BCE - ca. 350 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and Pythagorean noted for his work on prime numbers and simultaneous linear equations.
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Xenophanes
:For the skipper butterfly genus, see Xenophanes (butterfly).
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Zeno's Paradoxes. Achilles and a Tortoise
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 28 Apr 2011
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
A famous paradox by an ancient Greek philosopher Zeno from Elea.
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Zeno's Paradoxes.wmv
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 10 Feb 2010
- Updated: 28 May 2012
A short description of the three most famous paradoxes attributed to Zeno of Elea.
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Philosophy Day 2011: Zeno of Elea
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- Duration: 0:48
- Published: 17 Nov 2011
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Correction: I meant reductio ad absurdum.
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Achilles and the Tortoise
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 23 May 2008
- Updated: 07 May 2011
zeno of elea paradoxe
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Zenos Wednesday Stained Com Ep1 GraZe Zeno
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- Duration: 5:28
- Published: 11 Feb 2012
- Updated: 27 May 2012
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Math in a Minute: How a tortoise can win a race
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- Duration: 1:06
- Published: 15 Jan 2012
- Updated: 08 Jun 2012
Move over Achilles, a tortoise could outrun the Greek hero given a head start. This animation from The Open University explores the paradox proposed by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea. Suppose Achilles and the tortoise run at a constant speed with the slow tortoise given a slight advantage. While Achilles can cover the lead quickly, by the time he reaches his competitor's starting line the tortoise has lumbered forward a short distance. While this advantage narrows as the race goes on, Achilles will always have further to go at any point the tortoise has passed. Considered further, the puzzle even discredits movement itself. The gap between the contenders is divided an infinite number of intervals, which Zeno argued is impossible to overtake. The puzzle perplexed mathematicians for centauries until Georg Cantor's work on infinite series helped unravel it.
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Zeno explains the greek debt crisis
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 09 Oct 2011
- Updated: 04 May 2012
1+1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32+1/64+1/128+1/256+.... is less than 2 ? Ancient greek philosophy comes to the rescue. Translation into spanish by Google (see below): Buenas noches. Zenón de Elea, explica que Europa no puede pagar las deudas de Grecia. Lo hace con la ayuda de su famosa paradoja de Aquiles y la tortuga. Vaya, Aquiles está desnudo, le cubre. Así, Aquiles tiene que ponerse al día con su tortuga, que está huyendo. Sin embargo, primero tiene que llegar al lugar donde la tortuga ha sido, por lo que no puede alcanzarlo, ya que la tortuga ya ha pasado de ese punto. Si usted se identifica con la UE de Aquiles y la tortuga con Grecia, la brecha entre ambos representa la deuda, que nunca puede ser pagado. Para aquellos que todavía no entiendo, aquí está otro ejemplo: Las líneas convergentes no pueden cruzar, porque siempre es posible extraer una serie de círculos entre las líneas, tocando tanto en las líneas y los círculos vecinos. Sin embargo, las líneas se cruzan, por lo que es todavía la esperanza de Grecia. Sería bueno si la tortuga que dejar de correr! Aquí hay algunos bonos griegos (papel higiénico) para la venta. En algunos países, Aquiles es pobre, y se está alejando de la tortuga ricos. Ahora, eso es una verdadera paradoja!
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Zeno's Ressurection
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- Duration: 8:31
- Published: 21 Sep 2006
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Zeno's Ressurection
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Zeno - from Plato's Podcasts, by Mark Vernon
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- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 04 Sep 2009
- Updated: 02 Mar 2012
Zeno the Stoic's philosophy in a minute, by Mark Vernon, author of the book Plato's Podcasts: The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living (Oneworld)
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zeno balance
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- Duration: 2:21
- Published: 05 Nov 2007
- Updated: 29 Apr 2012
Zeno's body can walk and balance. $200 for this guy? Wow!
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The Widdler - Froggy Style (Zeno - Poison Dart Frog Remix)
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- Duration: 3:58
- Published: 14 Dec 2008
- Updated: 11 Jun 2012
Original Soul Project - Dec 2000 - Zeno's
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- Duration: 14:44
- Published: 16 Nov 2009
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
This video kinda hurts to watch... we loved this group so much and really miss them. Original Soul Project, December 2000, Zeno's, State College PA... It's shaky and dark in the beginning, but I promise that it gets better, and it's definitely worth the watch.
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Zeno Arcade Part 2
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- Duration: 5:49
- Published: 18 Feb 2009
- Updated: 23 Mar 2012
Part 2 of zeno's arcade mode.
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OpTic Zeno's GFX CONTEST!
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- Duration: 0:43
- Published: 08 Dec 2010
- Updated: 25 May 2012
The commentary says it all! The deadline is next wed.
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Zeno's house, in Hungary
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- Published: 10 Nov 2009
- Updated: 07 Jan 2011
Zeno's house, in Hungary
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BeautyStat Member Monica S ZENO Line Rewind Wrinkle Reduction Kit Review
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- Duration: 4:11
- Published: 17 Mar 2011
- Updated: 17 Mar 2011
Save $5 on your ZENO device purchase when you use the code "BeautyStat" at myzeno.com by 4/15/2011! Watch BeautyStat member Monica S's review of ZENO's latest Line Rewind Wrinkle Reduction Kit.
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Death Zeno's Apathy Multi CoD Montage Trailer By OK Verona
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- Duration: 1:05
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Zenón de Elea
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Zeno's Paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise
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demonstrations.wolfram.com The Wolfram Demonstrations Project contains thousands of free interactive visualizations, with new entries added daily. Zeno of Elea (circa 450 BC) is credited with creating several famous paradoxes, but by far the best known is the paradox of the tortoise and Achilles. A fleet-of-foot Achilles is unable to catch a plodding tortoise which has been given a head start, sin... Contributed by: Jon McLoone
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This article is about the 5th century BC Greek philosopher, famed for his paradoxes. For other uses, see Zeno.
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| Died | ca. 430 BC (aged around 60) |
| Era | Pre-Socratic philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Eleatic school |
| Main interests | Metaphysics, Ontology |
| Notable ideas | Zeno's paradoxes |
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Zeno of Elea (
/ˈziːnoʊ əv ˈɛliə/; Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης; ca. 490 BC – ca. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic.[1] He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".[2]
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Life[link]
Little is known for certain about Zeno's life. Although written nearly a century after Zeno's death, the primary source of biographical information about Zeno is Plato's Parmenides dialogue.[3] In the dialogue, Plato describes a visit to Athens by Zeno and Parmenides, at a time when Parmenides is "about 65," Zeno is "nearly 40" and Socrates is "a very young man".[4] Assuming an age for Socrates of around 20, and taking the date of Socrates' birth as 469 BC gives an approximate date of birth for Zeno of 490 BC. Plato says that Zeno was "tall and fair to look upon" and was "in the days of his youth … reported to have been beloved by Parmenides".[4]
Other perhaps less reliable details of Zeno's life are given by Diogenes Laërtius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers,[5] where it is reported that he was the son of Teleutagoras, but the adopted son of Parmenides, was "skilled to argue both sides of any question, the universal critic," and that he was arrested and perhaps killed at the hands of a tyrant of Elea.
According to Plutarch, Zeno attempted to kill the tyrant Demylus, and failing to do so, "with his own teeth bit off his tongue, he spit it in the tyrant’s face."[6]
Works[link]
Although many ancient writers refer to the writings of Zeno, none of his writings survive intact.
Plato says that Zeno's writings were "brought to Athens for the first time on the occasion of" the visit of Zeno and Parmenides.[4] Plato also has Zeno say that this work, "meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides",[4] was written in Zeno's youth, stolen, and published without his consent. Plato has Socrates paraphrase the "first thesis of the first argument" of Zeno's work as follows: "if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like".[4]
According to Proclus in his Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, Zeno produced "not less than forty arguments revealing contradictions", [7] but only nine are now known.
Zeno's arguments are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum, literally meaning to reduce to the absurd. Parmenides is said[citation needed] to be the first individual to implement this style of argument. This form of argument soon became known as the epicheirema (ἐπιχείρημα). In Book VII of his Topics, Aristotle says that an epicheirema is "a dialectical syllogism". It is a connected piece of reasoning which an opponent has put forward as true. The disputant sets out to break down the dialectical syllogism. This destructive method of argument was maintained by him to such a degree that Seneca the Younger commented a few centuries later, "If I accede to Parmenides there is nothing left but the One; if I accede to Zeno, not even the One is left."[8]
Zeno's paradoxes[link]
Main article: Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes have puzzled, challenged, influenced, inspired, infuriated, and amused philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists for over two millennia. The most famous are the so-called "arguments against motion" described by Aristotle in his Physics.[9]
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Notes[link]
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, 8.57, 9.25
- ^ Russell, p. 347: "In this capricious world nothing is more capricious than posthumous fame. One of the most notable victims of posterity's lack of judgement is the Eleatic Zeno. Having invented four arguments all immeasurably subtle and profound, the grossness of subsequent philosophers pronounced him to be a mere ingenious juggler, and his arguments to be one and all sophisms. After two thousand years of continual refutation, these sophisms were reinstated, and made the foundation of a mathematical renaissance..."
- ^ Plato (370 BC). Parmenides, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Internet Classics Archive.
- ^ a b c d e Plato, Parmenides 127b-e
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Scanned and edited for Peithô's Web.
- ^ Plutarch, Against Colotes
- ^ Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, p. 29
- ^ Zeno in The Presocratics, Philip Wheelwright ed., The Odyssey Press, 1966, Pages 106-107.
- ^ Aristotle (350 BC). Physics, translated by R.P. Hardie and R.K. Gaye. Internet Classics Archive.
References[link]
- Plato; Fowler, Harold North (1925) [1914]. Plato in twelve volumes. 8, The Statesman.(Philebus).(Ion). Loeb Classical Library. trans. W. R. M. Lamb. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P. ISBN 978-0-434-99164-8. OCLC 222336129.
- Proclus; Morrow, Glenn R.; Dillon, John M. (1992) [1987]. Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02089-1. OCLC 27251522.
- Russell, Bertrand (1996) [1903]. The Principles of Mathematics. New York, NY: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31404-5. OCLC 247299160.
- Hornschemeier, Paul (2007). The Three Paradoxes. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books.
Further reading[link]
- Early Greek Philosophy Jonathan Barnes. (Harmondsworth, 1987).
- "Zeno and the Mathematicians" G. E. L. Owen. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1957-8).
- Paradoxes Mark Sainsbury. (Cambridge, 1988).
- Zeno's Paradoxes Wesley C. Salmon, ed. (Indianapolis, 1970).
- Zeno of Elea Gregory Vlastos in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Paul Edwards, ed.), (New York, 1967).
- De compositie van de wereld Harry Mulisch. (Amsterdam, 1980).
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| Name | Zeno of Elea |
| Alternative names | Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης; |
| Short description | pre-Socratic Greek philosopher |
| Date of birth | 490 BC? |
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| Date of death | 430 BC? |
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This article is about the fictional character. For the theater, see Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).
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| First appearance | "Ebb Tide" (episode 2.01) |
| Last appearance | "–30–" (episode 5.10) |
| Created by | David Simon |
| Portrayed by | Bill Raymond |
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| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | International smuggling/Organized Crime Boss |
The Greek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Bill Raymond. The Greek is the head of an international criminal organization involved in narcotics and human trafficking.[1] The Greek is a mysterious figure involved in numerous criminal activities. His given name is never mentioned on the show, and though he is known only as "The Greek", he has stated (in the episode Port in a Storm) that he is not actually Greek. A quiet and unassuming man, the Greek prefers to keep a low profile, operating all of his business through his lieutenant Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos. His smuggling organization operated from a small diner in Baltimore for years, and while Vondas would conduct business the Greek would listen in quietly at the counter. Nick Sobotka, upon seeing the Greek identify himself, was amazed that the shadowy figure had been in plain sight the entire time.
Despite his calm appearance, the Greek is cunning and ruthless, and only interested in facts that make him more money. Series creator David Simon has said that The Greek is an embodiment of raw unencumbered capitalism.[2] Anyone interfering in this process is eliminated immediately, and he prefers to leave victims headless and handless to hinder identification.
The Greek's smuggling operation includes importing sex trade workers, illicit drugs, stolen goods and chemicals for drug processing. He bribes union stevedores to move containers through the Baltimore port for him and uses his muscle, Sergei "Serge" Malatov, to run containers back and forth from the port to his warehouse, a front managed by "Double G" Glekas. The Greek supplies the major drug dealers in East Baltimore with pure cocaine and heroin, using Eton Ben-Eleazer to move his drugs. His chief client is Proposition Joe, but he is also affiliated with smaller drug dealing organizations like those run by "White Mike" McArdle. His sex trade interests in Baltimore include a brothel run by a madam named Ilona Petrovitch, bringing in girls from eastern Europe. He manages to avoid prosecution for his crimes because an FBI counter-terrorism agent named Kristos Koutris tips him off if a criminal investigation gets too close. It is suggested he and Vondas may serve as federal informants.
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Season 2[link]
The Greek began to draw police attention in Baltimore when his contact at the docks, Frank Sobotka, became the target of an investigation. At the same time a container of thirteen dead young women intended for the sex trade was discovered at the docks, triggering a high-profile homicide investigation. The container belonged to the Greek and the girls were killed by a crewman onboard the vessel that had delivered them. The ship's crew had been paying the girls for sex and when one of the girls refused, she was killed. The crewman responsible dumped her overboard and collapsed the air pipe to kill the remaining women. The Greek had Sergei track the crewman down, interrogated him personally, and had Vondas kill him.
As the investigation continued the police were able to link Eton and Sergei to the drug smuggling operation. When police began tracking containers as they left the port, The Greek and Vondas began to close down the operation temporarily by dumping their cell phones and stealing "clean" containers. Persuading Sobotka to keep the smuggling operation going he bought further protection from Agent Koutris by betraying a load of Colombian cocaine, giving him time to destroy incriminating evidence in the warehouse and Glekas' store.
The Greek recognized that the investigation was too extensive to stop and made plans to leave, sending Vondas to assure Proposition Joe that supply of drugs would continue albeit with new faces. He attempted to buy Sobotka's silence with promised legal aid for his son, but when he learned from Koutris that Frank was planning to turn informant he had the union man killed. Although Frank's nephew Nick Sobotka was able to identify The Greek in a photo and Sergei was pressured to give up the location of his hotel suite, Vondas and the Greek had already boarded a flight to Chicago. Aware that the Greek and Vondas were gone, the police left the investigation behind and moved on to the drug dealers he supplied.
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The Greek continued to supply "Proposition Joe" Stewart, who formed an organization with other drug dealers called the New Day Co-Op to provide The Greek's product to them in exchange for reduced violence and sharing of territory. When Omar Little steals an entire shipment of heroin from the Greek's men as it is being delivered to Stewart's people, Marlo Stanfield demands a meeting with Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos in order to allay his fears that Stewart was responsible.[3][4] Once Stanfield is satisfied, he waits for the Major Crimes Unit's investigation into his activities to cease and then moves to establish a direct relationship with Vondas and the Greek. After getting in communication with Vondas through former soldier Sergei,[5][6] Marlo eventually sells himself as Joe's replacement by convincing the Greek that he requires an insurance policy in the form of a replacement for Proposition Joe, in the event that anything should happen to him. Realizing that Stanfield will move against Stewart regardless of his approval, the Greek accepts Marlo's proposal to act as an "insurance policy," knowing that it will mean Joe's death.[7][8]
After Stewart's murder, Stanfield meets with Vondas to initiate their new business relationship.[9][10] Stanfield's tenure proves short lived when he is forced into retirement by an investigation, and the other Co-Op members purchase the connection from Stanfield. In the closing scenes of the series finale, Slim Charles and Fat-Face Rick take over meeting with Vondas while the Greek listens quietly in the background.[11][12]
References[link]
- ^ "Character profile - The Greek". HBO. 2004. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/characters/port/the_greek.shtml. Retrieved 2006-08-16.
- ^ Meghan O'Rourke (2006). "Behind The Wire". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2154694/pagenum/all/. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Ernest Dickerson; David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story) (2004-12-10). "Final Grades". The Wire. episode 13. season 4. HBO.
- ^ "The Wire episode guide - episode 50 Final Grades". HBO. 2006. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode50.shtml. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ Ernest Dickerson; William F. Zorzi (story and teleplay), David Simon (story) (2008-01-13). "Unconfirmed Reports". The Wire. episode 2. season 5. HBO.
- ^ "The Wire episode guide - episode 52 Uncomfirmed Reports". HBO. 2008. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode52.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ^ Dan Attias; Ed Burns (story and teleplay), David Simon (story) (2008-01-27). "Transitions". The Wire. episode 4. season 5. HBO.
- ^ "The Wire episode guide - episode 54 Transitions". HBO. 2008. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode54.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ Agnieszka Holland; David Mills (story and teleplay), David Simon (story) (2008-02-03). "React Quotes". The Wire. episode 5. season 5. HBO.
- ^ "The Wire episode guide - episode 55 React Quotes". HBO. 2008. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode55.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
- ^ Clark Johnson; David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story) (2008-03-09). "-30-". The Wire. episode 10. season 5. HBO.
- ^ "The Wire episode guide - episode 60 –30–". HBO. 2008. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode60.shtml. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
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Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He writes for The Guardian, The Philosophers' Magazine, Financial Times and New Statesman. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. He used to be a Church of England priest. He has since become an agnostic Christian, a position he now writes about.[1]
He has a PhD from Warwick University in philosophy, he has a degree in theology from Oxford University and another theology degree and a physics degree from Durham University. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Bibliography[link]
- Plato's Podcasts, Oneworld publications 2009
- 42 on Life, the Universe and Everything, Oneworld publications, 2008
- Wellbeing, Acumen 2008
- Teach Yourself Humanism, Hodder Education 2008
- After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life, 2008
- The Philosophy of Friendship, 2005
- Business: The Key Concepts, 2002
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