Miscellanies 1.14.64
Summary: The Stoic and Eleatic successions are traced to Epicurus; next Clement will give their dates to prove that Hebrew philosophy is many generations older.
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Greek text · Stählin 2:40–41
εἶτα Καρνεάδης διαδέχεται Ἡγησίνουν καὶ οἱ ἐφεξῆς· Κράτητος δὲ Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεὺς ὁ τῆς Στωικῆς ἄρξας αἱρέσεως γίνεται μαθητής. τοῦτον διαδέχεται Κλεάνθης, ὃν Χρύσιππος καὶ οἱ μετʼ αὐτόν. τῆς δὲ Ἐλεατικῆς ἀγωγῆς Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος κατάρχει, ὃν φησι Τίμαιος κατὰ Ἱέρωνα τὸν Σικελίας δυνάστην καὶ Ἐπίχαρμον τὸν ποιητὴν γεγονέναι, Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ κατὰ τὴν † τεσσαρακοστὴν ὀλυμπιάδα γενόμενον παρατετακέναι ἄχρι τῶν Δαρείου τε καὶ Κύρου χρόνων. Παρμενίδης τοίνυν Ξενοφάνους ἀκουστὴς γίνεται, τούτου δὲ Ζήνων, εἶτα Λεύκιππος, εἶτα Δημόκριτος. Δημοκρίτου δὲ ἀκουσταὶ Πρωταγόρας ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης καὶ Μητρόδωρος ὁ Χῖος, οὗ Διογένης ὁ Σμυρναῖος, οὗ Ἀνάξαρχος, τούτου δὲ Πύρρων, οὗ Ναυσιφάνης. τούτου φασὶν ἔνιοι μαθητὴν Ἐπίκουρον γενέσθαι. Καὶ ἡ μὲν διαδοχὴ τῶν παρʼ Ἕλλησι φιλοσόφων ὡς ἐν ἐπιτομῇ ἥδε, οἱ χρόνοι δὲ τῶν προκαταρξάντων τῆς φιλοσοφίας αὐτῶν ἑπομένως λεκτέοι, ἵνα δὴ ἐν συγκρίσει ἀποδείξωμεν πολλαῖς γενεαῖς πρεσβυτέραν τὴν κατὰ Ἑβραίους φιλοσοφίαν.
English · Claude translation
Then Carneades succeeded Hegesinus, and those after him. Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school, became a pupil of Crates. Cleanthes succeeded him, then Chrysippus and those after him. Xenophanes of Colophon founded the Eleatic school; Timaeus says he lived in the time of Hiero, the ruler of Sicily, and of Epicharmus the poet, while Apollodorus says that, born about the … fortieth Olympiad, he lived on to the times of Darius and Cyrus. Parmenides was a hearer of Xenophanes, Zeno of him, then Leucippus, then Democritus. The hearers of Democritus were Protagoras of Abdera and Metrodorus of Chios, whose pupil was Diogenes of Smyrna; his was Anaxarchus, and his Pyrrho, and his Nausiphanes. Some say that Epicurus was his pupil. This, then, is the succession of the philosophers among the Greeks in summary; the dates of the founders of their philosophy must be given next, so that we may show by comparison that the philosophy of the Hebrews is many generations older.
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- The number of the Olympiad is corrupt (dagger).
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- Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ὃν): Κλεάνθης, ὅν Χρύσιππος → Κλεάνθης, ὃν Χρύσιππος; ὅν φησι Τίμαιος → ὃν φησι Τίμαιος.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.14.64 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/14/64/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.14.64 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/14/64/).
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