Clazomenae

(kləzŏm`ĭnē), ancient city of W Asia Minor, 20 mi (32 km) W of present-day Izmir, Turkey. It was one of the 12 Ionian cities of Asia Minor. The city was founded on the mainland but was later moved to a small island, and Alexander the Great built a causeway to it. The town continued to flourish through the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It was the birthplace of the philosopher Anaxagoras.

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00--While Anaxagoras of Clazomenae is best known as the thinker who introduced a teleological orientation to philosophy but failed to exploit his own insight, he is a formidable thinker who deserves to be better appreciated.

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84) Apollodorus of Cyzicus, Phanosthenes of Andros and Heraclides of Clazomenae.

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He joined the ranks of earlier monists, such as Thales of Miletus and Anaximander of Miletus, who claimed that all things were composed of a single substance, (17) and stood in opposition to later pluralists, such as Empedocles of Acragas (492-432 BCE) and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (500-428 BCE), who posited the existence of multiple substances.

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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia collects all the surviving fragments of the writings of the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa 500 B.

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The eclipse was visible in Anaxagoras' native Clazomenae on the central Aegean coast of Asia Minor.

Anaxagoras and the solar eclipse of 478 BC

The dialogue opens with an intricate web of displacements: Cephalus brings his friends, philosophers from Clazomenae, to Athens, where they run into Adeimantus and Glaucon (Plato's brothers).

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Bederman notes the case of Clazomenae and Cyme who were fighting about

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More than two millenniums have passed since Anaxagoras of Clazomenae realized that lunar eclipses are caused by the Earth's shadow.

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Clazomenae was a special case of a polis in that it was built partly on the mainland, partly on an off-coast island.

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He is sometimes referred to as Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, after his birthplace in Asia Minor.

Anaxagoras

A native Greek, Scopelian of Clazomenae, was "given to pitch-plasters and professional hair-removers" [LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Vs 536) and attracted a brilliant band of devoted students with his powers of delivery.

Reclaiming the Theatrical in the Second Sophistic

In the race between Clazomenae and Cyme, the plurality of runners is explained by the requirement to offer a sacrifice at the boundary: Diodorus 15.