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Heraclides Ponticus
Heraclides Ponticus
c. 390 BCE–c. 310 BCE · Athens
Heraclides Ponticus (c. 390-c. 310 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and astronomer of the Academy at Athens, originally from Heraclea on the Black Sea. He is remembered especially for proposing that the Earth rotates on its own axis, an important early astronomical idea, and he wrote widely on philosophy, literature, and natural science in dialogue form. His many works survive only in fragments.
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides
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In the same tradition
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus
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