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Speusippus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Speusippus , fl. 347-339 BC, Greek philosopher; disciple and nephew of Plato, whom he succeeded as head of the Academy . Speusippus distinguished 10 grades of being, thereby prefiguring Neoplatonism. He held that the good is not the source...
Heraclides of Pontus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...charge of the Academy when Plato went to Sicily in 360 B.C. He later studied under Aristotle, but, when a successor to Speusippus was elected in 339 B.C., his candidacy was defeated by Xenocrates and he returned to Pontus. Heraclides was a most prolific...
Xenocrates
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Xenocrates , 396-314 BC, Greek philosopher, b. Chalcedon, successor of Speusippus as head of the Academy . He was a disciple of Plato, whom he accompanied to Sicily in 361 BC His ascetic life and noble character...
Isocrates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...historians Theopompus and Ephorus; Nicocles, King of Cyprus; the orators Isaeus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus; and the philosopher Speusippus. The last period of his unusually long and productive life was devoted to writing. His Works Though some 60 of Isocrates...
Academy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...modified in various ways. These have been frequently divided into three phases: the Old Academy (until c.250 BC) of Plato, Speusippus , and Xenocrates ; the Middle Academy (until c.150 BC) of Arcesilaus and Carneades , who introduced and maintained skepticism...

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Platonism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...begin at Plato's death in 347 b.c.e. when his nephew Speusippus (c. 410 – c. 339 b.c.e.) succeeded him...the Academy (founded by Plato in 386 b.c.e.). Under Speusippus, a Pythagorean metaphysics linking thought and numbers was...
Menaechmus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...yet another passage Proclus discusses the division of propositions into problems and theorems. 11 While the followers of Speusippus and Amphinomus held that all propositions were theorems, the school of Menaechmus maintained that they were all problems...
Aristotle
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...professional, a dislike of philosophical tendencies represented in the Academy by Plato ’ s nephew and successor, Speusippus, but more probably it was political, the new anti-Macedonian mood of the city. He returned in 335 when Athens had come...
Aristotle: Natural History and Zoology
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the formal groups of animals, and thus to classify them, and to explain their functioning as part of nature. Plato and Speusippus opposed the materialism of those like Democritus, whose lost books, entitled Causes Concerning Animals , were probably intended...

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Two Studies in the Early Academy.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...Academy: the immanentism of Eudoxus and Speusippus's view that although The One is the...attribute positions to Eudoxus and to Speusippus, but to show how these views grow reasonably...in the Peri Ideon). Study 2 treats Speusippus's claim that the One is both first...
Corrigan, Kevin and Turner, John, eds.: Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...it is mathematizing in any significant way" (pp. 134, 144). Bechtle presents pertinent texts in Plato, Aristotle, Speusippus, Syrianus, Boethius, and Gilbert of Poitiers to reveal how modern concepts can be "hermeneutically useful" in Viewing...
Fronterotta, Francesco and Leszl, Walter, editors. Eidos-Idea: Platone, Aristotele e la Tradizione Platonica.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...pp. 105, 114) M. Isnardi Parente examines interpretations of the eide proposed in the Ancient Academy, especially by Speusippus and Xenocrates, who served as sources for Aristotle's depictions of the Ideas, and emphasizes that Aristotle in the Metaphysics...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/16/1999; 381 words ; ...Amundsen, 1912. Tomorrow is the Feast Day of St Antony the Abbot, St Genulf or Genou, St Julian Sabas, St Richimir, St Sabinus of Piacenza, Saints Speusippus, Eleusippus and Meleusippus and St Sulpicius II or Sulpice of Bourges.
Anniversaries: 17th January 1996
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/17/1996; 309 words ; ...South Pole, 1912. Today is the Feast Day of St Antony the Abbot, St Genulf or Genou, St Julian Sabas, St Richimir, St Sabinus of Piacenza, Saints Speusippus, Eleusippus and Meleusippus and St Sulpicius II or Sulpice of Bourges.
Saint of the internet
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 2/7/2001; ; 380 words ; ...but unbaptised. Aristotle and Plato had a try at a compendium of knowledge, and even they were beaten to it by the Greek Speusippus in 339 BC. So the next time your computer crashes while you are on line, don't thump the machine. Just log on to Saint...
BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/13/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...wich all disciplines flowed into each other, formed the basis of free- born education in ancient Greece. Plato's pupil Speusippus produced an encyclopaedia, long- vanished, as did Cato the Very Depressing, as did Varro. But it was in the 18th century...
Encyclopedias on the arts.(Link-up@home: your personal guide to the Web)
Magazine article from: Information Today; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...give students an all-around education in science, math, philosophy, and literature. For instance, Plato's nephew Speusippus aggregated concepts of philosophy, math, and natural history in a series of articles. Today, of course, many general...
New in Paperback
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/22/1998; 700+ words ; ...city of salt. As for encyclopedias, the earliest surviving example, which survives only in fragments, was compiled by Speusippus, a nephew of Plato. Even slurs can be traced to interesting origins. "Gringo," a Mexican term for an American, comes...