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The first Greek philosophers (1)

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11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11 Language, communication, libraries and education



 		Keywords
presocratics
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Jewish-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.2.14:
… the first Greek philosophers to treat of celestial and divine subjects, such as Pherecydes of Syros, Pythagoras, and Thales, were, as the world unanimously admits, in their scanty productions the disciples of the Egyptians and Chaldeans.

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Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.2.14

Bibliography

Thackeray 1926, I 168-169Thackeray, H. St. J. Josephus. 8 Vols. London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1926.

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Amar Annus


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