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Zeno’s writings Zeno’s work is known only through the reportage of others, chiefly Proclus, Simplicius and Plato. Further reading Text Diels, H. ), Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 11th edn, Zurich: Weidmann, 1964. These are the pre-Socratic texts in Greek. Freeman, K. ), Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, a complete translation of the fragments in Diels, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. , The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. , The Pre-Socratics, 2 vols, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979; 1-vol.
In Epistle VII, the dialectic is described in the following way: after practising detailed comparisons of names and definitions and visual and other sense-perceptions, after scrutinising them in benevolent disputation by the use of question and answer without jealousy, at last in a flash understanding of each blazes up, and the mind, as it exerts all its powers to the limit of human capacity, is flooded with light. ’7 But in spite of Aristotle’s rejection of the Theory of Forms, both it and Platonism in general became profoundly influential.
He then went to Assos in Asia Minor and for the next five years worked with a small group of scholars on philosophical and biological topics, spending the last two years of this time at Mitylene in Lesbos. In 342 BC he was invited to return to Macedonia as tutor to the boy who was to become Alexander the Great. He left Macedonia in 335 BC, returned to Athens and there founded his own school, the Lyceum, where he taught for twelve years. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, there was strong feeling in Athens against Macedonia, and Aristotle, because of his Macedonian connections, became the object of hostility.