Hippo (philosopher)
Hippo ( and it is possible that there was more than one philosopher with this name.
Although he was a natural philosopher, Aristotle refused to place him among the other great Pre-Socratic philosophers "because of the paltriness of his thought."[5] At some point Hippo was accused of atheism,[6] but since his works have perished, we cannot be certain why. He was accused of impiety by the comic poet Cratinus in his Panoptae,[7] and, according to Clement of Alexandria, Hippo supposedly ordered the following couplet to be inscribed on his tomb:[8]
Behold the tomb of Hippo, whom in death
Fate made an equal of the immortal gods.
According to
scholium on Aristophanes' The Clouds attributes to Hippo the view that the heavens were like the dome (πνιγεύς) of an oven covering the Earth.[10]
Notes
- ^ a b Hippolytus, i.16
- ^ Censorinus; Claudius Mamertinus
- ^ Iamblichus[full citation needed]
- ^ a b Medical Writings, London Papyrus 137, col. xi. 22–42
- ^ Aristotle, Metaphys. i.3.984a3
- ^ Simplicius, in Physics, 23.21–29: "Hippo, who is actually thought to have been an atheist"
- DK38 A 2
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks, iv. 55 (DK 38 B 2)
- ^ Simplicius, in Physics, 23.21–29
- Douglas M. MacDowell, (1995), Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays, page 120. Oxford University Press.
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