Anaxagoras
c. 500 BCE–c. 428 BCE · Clazomenae
Held that Nous (Mind) orders the cosmos and that 'in everything there is a portion of everything.'
“Mind (Nous) set in order all things that were to be... and arranged them all.”
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ClazomenaeIonia (Asia Minor)
What they did here
Born c.500 BCE in the Ionian Greek city of Clazomenae (in Lydia, Asia Minor), per Diogenes Laertius (2.6-7); birth date inferred from his floruit and a reported lifespan of c.72 years.
About Clazomenae
An Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor, birthplace of Anaxagoras—the philosopher who brought natural science to Athens and taught that a cosmic Mind set the universe in order.
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Anaxagoras’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Aeschylus, Themistocles, Parmenides, Sophocles, Herodotus, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Anaxagoras’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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