An Abridged History of Greek Literature

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For Anaximenes, it was air, that, by rarefaction, produced fire, and by condensation, water and land. Anaximander was, like Thales, a sage. To him was attributed the construction of a gnomon for astronomical observar tions, and that of the first map made in Greece.* Heraclitus, the * [This name is given also in the form Ylerr^fiuxotj — Cave with the Five Re- cesses, Cf . the articles by H. Diels in SUzungsbericht d. Berl. Akad, d, Wissen- schqften for 1897, pp. 144-156 ; and by L. Preller in Rh... M. for 1846, pp. 877 ff.
The title ^Eirrdfwxot doubtless comes from Suidas, 8.v. ^pticObrtt Bd/3uot Z^piot ; but, as Preller shows, the work was probably named from the five elemental principles, — ether, fire, air, water, and earth. — Tr.] ^ *' There existed Zeus and Chronos and Chthonia. But Chthonia came to be called Ge when Zeus bestowed honor upon her.'* * Strabo, I, 11.
Digitized by Google 154 Greek Literature latest of the lonians in date, conceived of fire as the beginning of things, the principle of movement and life, which incessantly trans- forms the appearance of all things.

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