Klearchos from Soloi
Clearchus von Soloi was a Greek philosopher, a disciple of Aristotle and a first generation Peripatetic . The exact dates of his life are not known, but can be deduced: born before 340 BC In Soloi on Cyprus , Klearchus probably lived until the middle of the 3rd century BC. He is distinguished among the Peripatetics by the fact that he did not turn away from Plato . Interested in biographical and psychological questions, he wrote "On Education" (peri paideias) .
According to Louis Robert, Klearchus is the founder of an inscription that was found in 1965 during excavations in the Greek colony in Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan (possibly Alexandreia on Oxus ). There Klearchus had a stone column with the sayings of the " Seven Wise Men " set up in the sacred grove of the city's founder, Kineas . This inscription is an outstanding example of the spiritual Hellenization and the propagation of Greek culture in Alexander's empire .
Text output
- Fritz Wehrli: The school of Aristotle . Vol. 3, Issue 2: Klearchos . 2nd, supplemented and improved edition. Schwabe, Basel 1969 (collection of the fragments of the Klearchos with commentary).
literature
Overview representations in manuals
- Hans Gottschalk: Klearchos [6] . In: Der Neue Pauly , Vol. 6, Stuttgart 1999, p. 502
- Jean-Pierre Schneider: Cléarque de Soles. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-271-05195-9 , pp. 415-420
- Fritz Wehrli , Georg Wöhrle , Leonid Zhmud: The Peripatos until the beginning of the Roman Empire. In: Hellmut Flashar (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity. Volume 3: Older Academy - Aristotle - Peripatos. 2nd edition, Schwabe, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7965-1998-9 , pp. 493–666, here: 583–587
Investigations
- Stavros Tsitsiridis: Contributions to the fragments of Clearchus by Soloi. De Gruyter, 2013. ISBN 978-3-11-025967-4 (print edition); ISBN 978-3-11-025968-1 (e-book).
On the inscription from Ai Khanoum :
- Louis Robert : De Delphes à l 'Oxus. Inscriptions grecques nouvelles de la Bactriane . In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et de Belles Lettres 1968, pp. 416-457. Reprinted in: Opera Minora Selecta . Vol. 5. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1989. pp. 510-552 (with illustration).
- Reinhold Merkelbach , Josef Stauber: The stone pigrams of the Greek East . Vol. 2. Saur, Munich 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Klearchos von Soloi in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klearchos from Soloi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clearchus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 340 BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soloi (Cyprus) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |