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Tag Archives: 3rd Century
370 BC: Numberless Democrituses Like Himself
The pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) believed in an infinite universe, and therefore in an infinite number of worlds. Some might be bigger or smaller than earth, he concluded; some might have more moons or suns, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, 3rd Century, 4th Century BC, Animals, Art, Astronomy, Birds, Crows, Democritus, Great Britain, Greece, Hippolytus, Leonora Carrington, Mexico, Philosophy, Printmaking, Pseudo-Hippocrates, Women
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3rd Century AD: A Slave Rebellion on Chios
Athenaeus of Naucratis relates the story of a slave revolt in an early 3rd-century Greek work called the Deipnosophistae. It takes place on the Greek island of Chios, close to what is now Turkey. Athenaeus first explains that, unlike other … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, 3rd Century, Art, Athenaeus of Naucratis, Greece, Labor, Lysippus, Rebellion, Rome, Scopas, Sculpture, Slavery
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