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Yesterday I read about #Empedocles, a philosopher who first combined the four "elements" as an explanation of all matter. The driving forces behind all change are "love" and "hate", which creat and destroy all creatures.
But he is most known for the fact (legend, story) that he wanted to proof his godliness,by jumping into the #Etna. Nothing would remain of him, and this would spur the legend that his end was supernatural.
Which the vulcano thwarted by spotting out his one of his shoes.
Het optreden van Karneades toont dat er in Rome weerstand kon zijn tegen de Griekse filosofie. Tegelijk adopteerden de Romeinen uit de Griekse filosofie wat hun van pas kwam. Als het bijvoorbeeld ging om de natuurwetenschappen stonden de Romeinen open voor Griekse ideeën. In de tweede eeuw v.Chr. ontstond een breed gedragen consensus over de wijze […]
but the power that provides unification is foreign to the one who presides over the division and opposition of encosmic things [Ares]. So it is this cooperation of dissimilar causes that the myths have referred to as adultery." Proclus, Commentary on the Republic 141f. (2/2)
I like this from Proclus as it works as a continuation of #Empedocles idea of the Cosmos sustained by Love/Strife
#Proclus #Polytheism #Aphrodite #Ares #Hephaestus #Paganism #Myth #Neoplatonism #GreekMythology #Mythology
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