Also explore The Graeco-Roman Spring The philosophers, historians, and poets of Greece and Rome — pick a sage to trace where they lived and taught, or select the ideas below to see how they spread across the ancient world.
326 authors · 2,238 works · 464,631 passages · 314 concepts
Map key Jewish source quoting a Greek idea 1
Trace a thinker's life-journey Follow where a philosopher, historian, or poet lived and taught — pin by pin, in the order they traveled.
Popular: ★ Aristotle★ Plato★ Xenophon★ Pythagoras★ Cicero★ Herodotus
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Watch an idea spread Pick any combination of ideas to see every place they appear, lit up across the ancient world.
Popular ideas: Justice Virtue The Good Courage Friendship Happiness
Greek ideas in the Jewish sources 108Greek ideas that medieval & rabbinic Jewish thinkers took up. Pick one to trace its journey from Greece into the world of Torah.
Choose a Greek idea… Form & Matter (εἶδος / ὕλη) — 12 Jewish sources Immortality of the Soul (ἀθανασία ψυχῆς) — 12 Jewish sources Eternity of the World (ἀΐδιος κόσμος) — 11 Jewish sources Providence (πρόνοια) — 11 Jewish sources Eudaimonia (εὐδαιμονία) — 10 Jewish sources The Soul (ψυχή) — 10 Jewish sources The Telos / Final End (τέλος) — 10 Jewish sources Active & Passive Intellect (νοῦς ποιητικός) — 9 Jewish sources The Unmoved Mover (τὸ πρῶτον κινοῦν) — 9 Jewish sources Fate & Free Will (εἱμαρμένη / προαίρεσις) — 8 Jewish sources Negative Theology and the Ineffable First (θεὸς ἄρρητος) — 7 Jewish sources The Four Elements (στοιχεῖα) — 7 Jewish sources The Divine (τὸ θεῖον) — 6 Jewish sources Actuality & Potentiality (ἐνέργεια / δύναμις) — 5 Jewish sources Critique of Anthropomorphism (κατὰ τῆς ἀνθρωπομορφίας) — 5 Jewish sources Time (χρόνος) — 5 Jewish sources Impression / Imagination (φαντασία) — 4 Jewish sources The Argument from Design (ἡ ἐκ τῆς προνοίας ἀπόδειξις θεῶν) — 4 Jewish sources The Blessed, Indifferent Gods (μακάριοι θεοί) — 4 Jewish sources The Celestial Spheres (Geocentric World-System) (σφαῖραι οὐράνιαι) — 4 Jewish sources The Contemplative Life (βίος θεωρητικός) — 4 Jewish sources The Demiurge (δημιουργός) — 4 Jewish sources Virtue (ἀρετή) — 4 Jewish sources Chance and Spontaneity in Nature (τὸ αὐτόματον καὶ ἡ τύχη) — 3 Jewish sources Choice / Rational Decision (προαίρεσις) — 3 Jewish sources Faculties of the Soul (δυνάμεις ψυχῆς) — 3 Jewish sources Infinity / The Unlimited (τὸ ἄπειρον) — 3 Jewish sources Intellect (νοῦς) — 3 Jewish sources Metaphor (μεταφορά) — 3 Jewish sources Motion & Change (κίνησις) — 3 Jewish sources Natural Teleology (The Final Cause) (τὸ οὗ ἕνεκα) — 3 Jewish sources Prime Matter (πρώτη ὕλη) — 3 Jewish sources Privation (στέρησις) — 3 Jewish sources Providence & the Problem of Evil — 3 Jewish sources Self-Sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια) — 3 Jewish sources Substance (οὐσία) — 3 Jewish sources The Cynic Ideal (ἄσκησις) — 3 Jewish sources The Four Causes (αἰτίαι) — 3 Jewish sources The Golden Mean (μεσότης) — 3 Jewish sources The Intelligible and the Sensible (νοητόν / αἰσθητόν) — 3 Jewish sources The One and the Many (ἓν καὶ πολλά) — 3 Jewish sources The Sublunary and Superlunary Realms (τὰ ὑπὸ σελήνην / τὰ ὑπὲρ σελήνην) — 3 Jewish sources Body as Tomb (Sōma Sēma) (σῶμα σῆμα) — 2 Jewish sources Demonstration (ἀπόδειξις) — 2 Jewish sources Kingship (βασιλεία) — 2 Jewish sources Logos (Reason / Cosmic Principle) (λόγος) — 2 Jewish sources Magnitude vs. Number (Continuous and Discrete Quantity) (μέγεθος καὶ ἀριθμός) — 2 Jewish sources Moral Habituation and Settled Disposition (ἕξις / ἐθισμός) — 2 Jewish sources Mystery Cult and Initiation (μυστήρια / τελετή) — 2 Jewish sources Natural Law (lex naturalis) — 2 Jewish sources Piety (εὐσέβεια) — 2 Jewish sources Place & Space (τόπος) — 2 Jewish sources Signs and Inference (σημεῖον) — 2 Jewish sources The One (τὸ ἕν) — 2 Jewish sources The Sphericity of the Earth (σφαιρικὴ γῆ) — 2 Jewish sources The Syllogism (συλλογισμός) — 2 Jewish sources The Tripartite Soul (τριμερὴς ψυχή) — 2 Jewish sources The Two Principles: Active and Passive (τὸ ποιοῦν καὶ τὸ πάσχον) — 2 Jewish sources Transmigration (μετεμψύχωσις) — 2 Jewish sources Aether / The Fifth Element (αἰθήρ) — 1 Jewish source Apatheia (ἀπάθεια) — 1 Jewish source Aporia (Philosophical Impasse) (ἀπορία) — 1 Jewish source Ataraxia (ἀταραξία) — 1 Jewish source Atoms & the Void (ἄτομα καὶ κενόν) — 1 Jewish source Cosmic Sympathy (συμπάθεια) — 1 Jewish source Desire / Appetition (Orexis) (ὄρεξις) — 1 Jewish source Despotic Rule (Mastery) (δεσποτεία) — 1 Jewish source Distributive Justice (Proportional Equality) (τὸ ἴσον κατ' ἀξίαν) — 1 Jewish source Emanation (Procession) (πρόοδος) — 1 Jewish source Fate (the Cosmic Chain of Causes) (εἱμαρμένη) — 1 Jewish source First Principles & Axioms (ἀρχαί / ἀξιώματα) — 1 Jewish source Flux (πάντα ῥεῖ) — 1 Jewish source Generation & Corruption (γένεσις καὶ φθορά) — 1 Jewish source Genus and Species (γένος καὶ εἶδος) — 1 Jewish source Geometric Construction (Problem and Ruler-and-Compass) (κατασκευή / πρόβλημα) — 1 Jewish source Infinite Worlds (ἄπειροι κόσμοι) — 1 Jewish source Likeness to God (ὁμοίωσις θεῷ) — 1 Jewish source Memory (μνήμη) — 1 Jewish source Natural vs Conventional Naming (φύσει ἢ θέσει ὀνόματα) — 1 Jewish source Nomos vs Physis (νόμος / φύσις) — 1 Jewish source Number & Harmony (ἀριθμός / ἁρμονία) — 1 Jewish source Participation (μέθεξις) — 1 Jewish source Practical Wisdom (φρόνησις) — 1 Jewish source Regimen (Diet & Way of Life as Medicine) (δίαιτα) — 1 Jewish source Sameness and Difference (ταὐτὸν καὶ ἕτερον) — 1 Jewish source Self-Mastery (Continence) (ἐγκράτεια) — 1 Jewish source Sophistical Refutations (Fallacies) (σοφιστικοὶ ἔλεγχοι) — 1 Jewish source Suspension of Judgment (ἐποχή) — 1 Jewish source The Best Regime (ἀρίστη πολιτεία) — 1 Jewish source The Cardinal Virtues (ἀρεταί) — 1 Jewish source The Care of the Soul (ἐπιμέλεια ψυχῆς) — 1 Jewish source The Categories (κατηγορίαι) — 1 Jewish source The Classification of Desires (ἐπιθυμίαι φυσικαὶ καὶ κεναί) — 1 Jewish source The Cosmic Vortex (Dinē) (δίνη) — 1 Jewish source The Cosmos (κόσμος) — 1 Jewish source The Demagogue (δημαγωγός) — 1 Jewish source The Divided Line and the Degrees of Cognition (γραμμὴ δίχα τετμημένη (νόησις, διάνοια, πίστις, εἰκασία)) — 1 Jewish source The First Principle (ἀρχή) — 1 Jewish source The Gods (θεοί) — 1 Jewish source The Good (τὸ ἀγαθόν) — 1 Jewish source The Harmony of the Spheres (ἁρμονία τῶν σφαιρῶν) — 1 Jewish source The Receptacle (Khora) (χώρα) — 1 Jewish source The Regimes (πολιτεῖαι) — 1 Jewish source The Self-Moving Soul (τὸ αὑτὸ κινοῦν) — 1 Jewish source The Symposium (symposion) — 1 Jewish source The Void (κενόν) — 1 Jewish source The Voluntary and the Involuntary (τὸ ἑκούσιον καὶ τὸ ἀκούσιον) — 1 Jewish source Virtue Is Knowledge (ἀρετὴ ἐπιστήμη) — 1 Jewish source
↪ Jewish stories that echo a Greek tale →This is an example — you’re tracing the life of Aristotle (384–322 BCE), from his birth in Stagira to Plato’s Academy in Athens, the court at Assos, the island of Lesbos, tutoring the young Alexander at Mieza, founding his own Lyceum back in Athens, and his final retreat to Chalcis. Each pin is a place he lived; the line follows the order he traveled. Click any pin to read what happened there.
↑ Now chart your own : trace a different sage, or pick any idea above — metaphysics, ethics, the cosmos. Choose as many as you like.
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