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	HERACLIDES - LoveToKnow Article on HERACLIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On one occasion, for instance, Heraclea was afflicted with famine, and the Pythian priestess at Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a golden crown to that philosopher.
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honor in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while thc dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bit of a serpent.
		On his death-bed he is said to have requested a friend to hide his body as soon as life was extinct, and, by putting a serpent in its place, induce his townsmen to suppose that he had been carried up to heaven.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HERACLIDES.htm (319 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Heraclides Ponticus (387 - 312 BCE), also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey.
		However, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric, notwithstanding doubts about attribution of many of the works.
		His major distinction is that he realised, as the result of observation, that Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun as satellites.
	heraclides-ponticus.biography.ms (296 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia: UNIVERSE
		The flourishing period of Greek astronomy extends from Heraclides Ponticus in the fourth century B.C. to Hipparchus in the second.
		The hypothesis was then established, probably by Heraclides himself, that the sun revolved annually, with the five planets, around the earth, while the moon remained on her sphere as before.
		Heraclides also made an important step in advance by asserting the diurnal rotation of the earth.
	www.let.uu.nl /~Ben.J.Peperkamp/personal/internet_essays/katholieke_encylopedie/catholic_encyclopedia_universe.htm (3969 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Heraclides Ponticus, Greek philosopher and miscellaneous writer, born at Heraclea in Pontus, flourished in the 4th century BC.
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honour in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while the dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bite of a serpent.
		Whatever may be the truth about these stories, Heracides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric.
	www.theezine.net /h/heraclides-ponticus.html (336 words)

	Heraclides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Perhaps Heraclides had the last laugh here for indeed he did become a hero after is death based on a false interpretation of his writing.
		Heraclides of Pontus, Plato's famous pupil, is known on clear evidence to have discovered that Venus and Mercury revolve round the sun like satellites.
		Heraclides Ponticus, when describing the circle of Venus as well as that of the sun, and giving the two circles one centre and one mean motion, showed how Venus is sometimes above, sometimes below the sun.
	www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Heraclides.html (739 words)

	HERACLIDES PONTICUS - Online Information article about HERACLIDES PONTICUS
		Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a See also:
		Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges
		Whatever may be the truth about these stories, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HERACLIDES_PONTICUS.html (554 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Heraclides Ponticus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Heraclides' father was Euthyphron, a wealthy nobleman who sent him to study at the Academy in Athens under its founder Plato and under his successor Speusippus, though he also studied with Aristotle.
		According to the Suda, Plato, on his departure for Sicily in 360 BCE, left his pupils in the charge of Heraclides.
		Speusippus, before his death in 339 BCE, had chosen Xenocrates as his successor but Xenocrates narrowly triumphed in an ensuing election against Heraclides and Menedemus.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Heraclides-Ponticus.html (382 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus
		This was done; but just as Heraclides was receiving his honor in a crowded assembly, he was seized with apoplexy, while the dishonest priestess perished at the same moment from the bite of a serpent.
		On his deathbed he is said to have requested a friend to hide his body as soon as life was extinct, and, by putting a serpent in its place, induce his townsmen to suppose that he had been carried up to heaven.
		The trick was discovered, and Heraclides received only ridicule instead of divine honors (Diogenes Laërtius V, 6).
	www.nndb.com /people/675/000096387 (297 words)

	Heraclides Ponticus
		Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center.
		Heraclides Ponticus (387 - 312 BC), also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey.
		According to the Suda, Plato, on his departure for Sicily in 360 BC, left his pupils in the charge of Heraclides.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/HeraclidesPonticus.html (403 words)

	Fantastic areas on the Moon
		The higher promontory is called Laplace Promontorium (Cape Laplace) and the lower is Heraclides Promontorium (Cape Heraclides).
		As for Promontorium Heraclides, it was named after Heraclides Ponticus (390 - 310 BC).
		Heraclides was a student of Plato and believed the Earth rotated on its axis.
	www.cfas.org /Library/fantastic_moon1.htm (1841 words)

	Classics Log 9608b - Message Number 32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The identification of the Marathon runner as Pheidippides seems to be a slip by Lucian in _Pro Lapsu_ 3 (who uses the form Phil-).
		Plutarch, _Mor._ 347C, says most sources identify the runner as Eukles, but Heraclides Ponticus says it was Thersippos Eroieus (?) (the demotic is variously emended).
		This Thersippos is known only from this passage (_PA_ 7200), but Heraclides seems to have liked the name: Plutarch, _Solon_ 31.4, cites him for another Thersippos (_PA_ 7196), a contemporary of Solon (this one also known only from the one passage).
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log96/9608b/9608b.32.html (240 words)

	Camillus by Plutarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the third day after the battle, Brennus appeared with his army at the city, and, finding the gates wide open and no guards upon the walls, first began to suspect it was some design or stratagem, never dreaming that the Romans were in so desperate a condition.
		Heraclides Ponticus, who lived not long after these times, in his hook upon the Soul, relates that a certain report came from the west, that an army, proceeding from the Hyperboreans, had taken a Greek city called Rome, seated somewhere upon the great sea.
		Aristotle the philosopher appears to have heard a correct statement of the taking of the city by the Gauls, but he calls its deliverer Lucius; whereas Camillus's surname was not Lucius, but Marcus.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Camillus/6.html (668 words)

	TMTh:: HERACLIDES PONTICUS
		Heraclides was born in Heraclea on the Black Sea.
		Heraclides posited a mixed geo-heliocentric system, according to which the Sun, the Moon and some of the planets revolved around the Earth, while the planets Mercury and Venus revolved around the sun.
		Tycho Brahe, the famous Danish astronomer (1564-1601), based his work on Heraclides' geo-heliocentric system.
	www.tmth.edu.gr /en/aet/2/53.html (132 words)

	20th WCP: Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
		Heraclides of Pontus records that Pythagoras taught that happiness is the scientific knowledge of the perfection of the numbers of the soul.
		This is exactly what the Christians do with those who have proven to be untrue, lamenting over them as if they were already dead, adds Clement.
		Now, as we have seen, among the sources of his information Clement acknowledges Aristoxenus, Aristarchus, Hippobotus, Theopompus, Neanthes, Heraclides, Alexander, Epigenes, Didymus, and some other authors.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciAfon.htm (5803 words)

	Articles - Nicolaus Copernicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Philolaus (4th century BC) was one of the first to hypothesize movement by the Earth, probably inspired by Pythagoras' theories about a spherical Globe.
		Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC had developed some theories of Heraclides Ponticus (speaking of a revolution by Earth on its axis) to propose what was, so far as is known, the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system.
		Plutarch provided an account of the Pythagoreans Heraclides Ponticus, Philolaus, and Ecphantes.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Copernicus?mySession=5ccb7a102aff7e69154ec705ce7ef9a7 (3218 words)

	Aristotle biography
		During this period of discipleship Aristotle seems to have begun to lecture to small circles of listeners, chiefly on the subject of rhetoric; at the same time he trained himself to a high degree of perfection in the practice of oratory.
		His superior genius was so well recognized by his contemporaries that his elders, like Heraclides Ponticus, who was Plato's representative in 361 B.C., were ready to yield to him, and younger men like Theophrastus were glad to be his followers.
		At Plato's death in 348-347 B.C., Speusippus became head of the Academy, and Aristotle had no longer any bonds to bind him to the school.
	www.dromo.info /aristotlebio.htm (2559 words)

	History of Roman Literature, A
		The next series of works that issued from his pen were probably those known as Logistorici (about 56-50 B.C.).
		The model for these was furnished by Heraclides Ponticus, a friend and pupil of Plato, and after his death, of Aristotle.
		He was a voluminous and encyclopaedic writer, but too indolent to apply the vigorous method of his master.
	manybooks.net /pages/cruttweletext058romn10/178.html (333 words)

	Historical Figures - Nicolaus Copernicus
		Philolaus (4th century BC) was one of the first to suppose a movement of the Earth, probably inspired by Pythagoras's theories on a spherical Globe.
		Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century BC) developed some theories by Heraclides Ponticus (already talking about a revolution of our planet on its axis) to propose what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system.
		Unfortunately, his work about his heliocentric hypothesis did not survive, so we can only speculate about what led him to his conclusions.
	www.dailypast.com /historical-figures/nicolaus-copernicus2.shtml (1168 words)

	Humanist - Jus Primae Noctis
		Heraclides Ponticus, in the 4th Century BCE described the "tyrant King of the Island of Cephalonia who made it a practice to deflower all of his maiden subjects.
		A man called Antenor took exception to this, disguised himself as a woman, and gained entrance to His Majesty's bedchamber.
		Whether or not the new monarch re-instituted the same practice Ponticus does not say...(5).
	www.petalk.com /humanist/jpn.html (3215 words)

	Archaic Period-Economy
		Initially, members of the aristocratic class did not participate in transactions, nor in manual occupations, because these were considered activities that did not honour those who engaged in them (Herodotus, Historia 2.167).
		In one extract, Heraclides Ponticus mentions the laws that were in force in Thespiae, Thebes and Boeotia, from which results that aristocrats were excluded from having any contact with the above occupations (Heraclides Ponticus, FHG extract 43).
		As a result, the aristocracy had time to engage in government, judicial and military affairs.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/04/en/economy/tr_intro_gen.html (801 words)

	TMTh:: ZENO OF ELEA
		His pupils included Pericles and later, in Athens, where he and Parmenides both went to teach, Socrates.
		He is cited by Plato, Heraclides Ponticus, Hermippus, Antisthenes, Stobaeus, Aristotle, Plutarch, Eudemus, Philo and Suidas.
		Zeno taught that there is no movement, and he proved it by 4 arguments, which are quoted by Aristotle in his "Physics".
	www.tmth.edu.gr /en/aet/1/99.html (321 words)

	Celestial Sphere Page 15: Does the Earth Spin?
		This fact makes a powerful arguement first put forth by Aristotle that the Earth is just to big to move.
		However, others such as Heraclides Ponticus and Pythagoreas believed that if the rotated much of the motions of the heavens would be easier to explain.
		Besides the ancient greeks the first people to suspect that the Earth was rotating was gunners.
	inkido.indiana.edu /a100/celestialsphere15.html (343 words)

	Plutarch's Life of Solon
		And he added other laws, one of which is that the maimed in the wars should be maintained at the public charge; this Heraclides Ponticus records, and that
		Pisistratus seized the government, as Heraclides Ponticus asserts, a long time; but Phanias the Eresian says not two full years; for
		Pisistratus began his tyranny when Comias was archon, and Phanias says Solon died under Hegestratus, who succeeded Comias.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /plutarch/solon.htm (5855 words)

	Solon
		But that law was yet more rigid which, as Heraclides Ponticus
		Solon lived after Pisistratus seized the government, as Heraclides
		Ponticus asserts, a long time; but Phanias the Eresian says not two
	www6.tltc.ttu.edu /forsythe/Plutarch/solon.htm (9955 words)

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