Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

Even so Anaxagoras was forced to retire from Athens to Lampsacus in Troad ( c. 434 – 433 BC ).

His education was not confined to athletics: he also studied painting and philosophy under the masters Prodicus and Anaxagoras.

Anaxagoras ( c. 450 BC ) agreed that the Earth was flat, and his pupil Archelaus believed that the flat Earth was depressed in the middle like a saucer, to allow for the fact that the Sun does not rise and set at the same time for everyone.

Anaxagoras ( 480 BC ) was known as " Nous " (" Mind ") because he taught that " all things " were created by Mind, that Mind held the cosmos together and gave human beings a connection to the cosmos or a pathway to the divine.

The first known mention of the term was in the writings of the 5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.

* 457 Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms

At a later date the narrative was embellished with anecdotal detail: Melampus lived in Pylos during the reign of Anaxagoras or possibly Proetus.

In another version of Melampus ' story, when the women of Argos were driven mad by Dionysus, in the reign of Anaxagoras or possibly Proetus, Melampus was brought in to cure them, but demanded a third of the kingdom as payment.

He was the father of Argeus and possibly Anaxagoras ( or else Anaxagoras was his grandson through Argeus ).

In Greek mythology, Anaxagoras () was a king of Argos and son of either Megapenthes or his son Argeus.

When the women of Argos were driven mad by Dionysus, in the reign of Anaxagoras, Melampus was brought in to cure them, but demanded a third of the kingdom as payment.

Anaxagoras, whose works were studied by Socrates, was living in Athens when Aristophanes was a youth.

Anaxagoras enjoyed the patronage of influential figures such as Pericles, but oligarchic elements also had political advocates and Anaxagoras was charged with impiety and expelled from Athens around 437 BC.

The power of Parmenides ' logic was such that some subsequent philosophers abandoned the monism of the Milesians, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, where one thing was the arche, and adopted pluralism, such as Empedocles and Anaxagoras.

Anaxagoras appears as a character in The Ionia Sanction, by Gary Corby

The Philosophy of Anaxagoras: An attempt at reconstruction King's Crown Press, New York OCLC 2692674 ; republished in 1973 by Nijhoff, The Hague, as The Philosophy of Anaxagoras: As reconstructed ISBN 90-247-1573-3

In the 5th century BC, Anaxagoras and Leucippus replaced the reality of Being ( unique and unchanging ) with that of Becoming and therefore by a more fundamental and elementary ontic plurality.

This thesis originated in the Greek-ion world, stated in two different ways by Anaxagoras and by Leucippus.

* Anaxagoras is arrested by Pericles ' political opponents on a charge of contravening the established dogmas of Athenian religion.

Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.

There were, they said, multiple elements which were not reducible to one another and these were set in motion by love and strife ( as in Empedocles ) or by Mind ( as in Anaxagoras ).

The great statesman Pericles was closely associated with this new learning and a friend of Anaxagoras, however, and his political opponents struck at him by taking advantage of a conservative reaction against the philosophers ; it became a crime to investigate the things above the heavens or below the earth, subjects considered impious.

This he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, and asserted that air, the primal force, was intelligent:

Anaxagoras is a relatively recent impact crater that is young enough to still possess a ray system that has not been eroded by space weathering.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Anaxagoras.

An application: Famously and controversially, in the philosophy of the Greek Anaxagoras ( at least as it is discussed by the Roman Atomist Lucretius ), it was assumed that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance: so atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

Among the most important were Heraclitus (" all is fire ", all is chaotic and transitory ), Anaxagoras ( reality is so ordered that it must be in all respects governed by mind ), the Pluralists and Atomists ( the world is composite of innumerable interacting parts ), the Eleatics Parmenides and Zeno ( all is One and change is impossible, as illustrated by his famous paradoxes of motion ), the Sophists ( became known, perhaps unjustly, for claiming that truth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusions they wished ).

Sedley states that Anaxagoras was recognized by Plato as " the first overt champion of a creative cosmic intelligence.

The prince, Anaxagoras ' son, suffered from a strange malady and the king offered a reward for anybody that could heal him.

Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous ( mind ), as an ordering force.

Anaxagoras appears to have had some amount of property and prospects of political influence in his native town of Clazomenae in Asia Minor.

Valerius Maximus preserves a different tradition: Anaxagoras, coming home from a long voyage, found his property in ruin, and said: " If this had not perished, I would have.

Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from Ionia to Athens.

About 450 BC, according to Laertius, Pericles spoke in defense of Anaxagoras at his trial.

Anaxagoras wrote a book of philosophy, but only fragments of the first part of this have survived, through preservation in work of Simplicius of Cilicia in the sixth century AD.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

Anaxagoras proceeded to give some account of the stages in the process from original chaos to present arrangements.

Thus Anaxagoras distrusted the senses, and gave the preference to the conclusions of reflection.

Anaxagoras marked a turning-point in the history of philosophy.

" Empedocles and Anaxagoras: Responses to Parmenides " Chapter 8 of Long, A.

Anaxagoras ' theory of matter.

From the lifetime of the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras in the 5th century BCE to the 14th century CE, earthquakes were usually attributed to " air ( vapors ) in the cavities of the Earth.

Ancient Greek philosophers like Thales, Anaxagoras ( ca.