Miscellanies 1.14.63 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:39–40

ἀλλʼ ἡ μὲν ἐν Μεταποντίῳ τῆς Ἰταλίας ἡ κατὰ Πυθαγόραν φιλοσοφία ἡ Ἰταλικὴ κατεγήρασεν. Ἀναξίμανδρος δὲ Πραξιάδου Μιλήσιος Θαλῆν διαδέχεται, τοῦτον δὲ Ἀναξιμένης Εὐρυστράτου Μιλήσιος, μεθʼ ὃν Ἀναξαγόρας Ἡγησιβούλου Κλαζομένιος. οὗτος μετήγαγεν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰωνίας Ἀθήναζε τὴν διατριβήν. τοῦτον διαδέχεται Ἀρχέλαος, οὗ Σωκράτης διήκουσεν. ἐκ δʼ ἄρα τῶν ἀπέκλινε λαοξόος, ἐννομολέσχης, Ἑλλήνων ἐπαοιδός, ὁ Τίμων φησὶν ἐν τοῖς Σίλλοις διὰ τὸ ἀποκεκλικέναι ἀπὸ τῶν φυσικῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ἠθικά. Σωκράτους δὲ ἀκούσας Ἀντισθένης μὲν ἐκύνισε, Πλάτων δὲ εἰς τὴν Ἀκαδημίαν ἀνεχώρησε. παρὰ Πλάτωνι Ἀριστοτέλης φιλοσοφήσας μετελθὼν εἰς τὸ Λύκειον κτίζει τὴν Περιπατητικὴν αἵρεσιν. τοῦτον διαδέχεται Θεόφραστος, ὃν Στράτων, ὃν Λύκων, εἶτα Κριτόλαος, εἶτα Διόδωρος. Σπεύσιππος δὲ Πλάτωνα διαδέχεται. τοῦτον δὲ Ξενοκράτης, ὃν Πολέμων. Πολέμωνος δὲ ἀκουσταὶ Κράτης τε καὶ Κράντωρ, εἰς οὓς ἡ ἀπὸ Πλάτωνος κατέληξεν ἀρχαία Ἀκαδημία. Κράντορος δὲ μετέσχεν Ἀρκεσίλαος, ἀφʼ οὗ μέχρι Ἡγησίνου ἤνθησεν Ἀκαδημία ἡ μέση.

English · Claude translation

The Italian philosophy of Pythagoras grew old at Metapontum in Italy. Anaximander of Miletus, son of Praxiades, succeeded Thales; Anaximenes of Miletus, son of Eurystratus, succeeded him; and after him Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, son of Hegesibulus. He moved the school from Ionia to Athens. Archelaus succeeded him, whom Socrates heard. “From these turned aside the stone-cutter, the prater about laws, the enchanter of the Greeks,” says Timon in his Silloi, because he turned aside from natural philosophy to ethics. Of those who heard Socrates, Antisthenes became a Cynic, and Plato withdrew to the Academy. Aristotle, having studied philosophy with Plato, moved to the Lyceum and founded the Peripatetic school. Theophrastus succeeded him, then Strato, then Lycon, then Critolaus, then Diodorus. Speusippus succeeded Plato; Xenocrates him, and Polemo him. The hearers of Polemo were Crates and Crantor, in whom the Old Academy of Plato ended. Arcesilaus studied with Crantor, and from him until Hegesinus the Middle Academy flourished.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:39–40 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 2, Stromata Buch I–VI, GCS 15 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1906); vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 2–3 (GCS 15, 17, 1906–1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1906–1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Timon of Phlius, Silloi, fragment 25 (Diels), mocks Socrates (a stone-cutter's son).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misreading in the digital text; stray period in the digital text): ἀπέκλινε λαοξόος. ἐννομολέσχης → ἀπέκλινε λαοξόος, ἐννομολέσχης; εἶτα Δτόδωρος → εἶτα Διόδωρος.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.14.63 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/14/63/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.14.63 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/14/63/).