An Ancient History: From the Creation to the Fall of the Western Empire in a ...
An Ancient History: From the Creation to the Fall of the Western Empire in a ...
Arsenius John Baptist Vuibert
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He sings of love and wine with hearty good will, and his death was worthy of his life, if we may believe the account that he was choked by a grape-stone. The Seven Sages. — The name of the Seven Sages has been given to certain personages who flourished in various parts of the Grecian world, during the sixth century before the Christian era, and who were noted for their practical yGoogk B. C. 750-500. t>HlLOSOf»HBRS. $$$ sagacity and wise sayings. Those most commonly honored with the title are S...olon, Thales, Periander, Pittacus, Cleobu- lus, Chilo, and Bias. Of Solon, the legislator of Athens, we have already spoken ; and Thales win presently claim our attention as the founder of Grecian philosophy. Periander, who was despot of Corinth from 625 to 585 b. c, made that city the wealthiest and the most powerful of all the commercial communities of Greece. He welcomed to his court the poet Arion and the philosopher Anarcharsis, and was a warm patron of literature and art Pittacus, a native of Mytilene, stood as the champion of the people against the nobles.
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