Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.

Several centuries later Ionia was the place where western philosophy began and was the homeland of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. They were natural-philosophers of the Ionian school of philosophy and tried to explain the phenomena according to no-supernatural laws. They also searched a simple material-form behind the appearances of things ( origin ) and this conception had a great influence on the early archaic art in Greece.

In ancient Greece, pre-Socratic thinkers such as Anaximander, Xenophanes, Anaximenes, and Heraclides speculated about the nature and substance of the stars and planets.

It may be traced to the ancient Ionian philosophers ( particularly Anaximenes ), from whom Aristotle, Hegel and Engels inherited the concept.

Diogenes, like Anaximenes, believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction.

Like Anaximenes, he believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction.

18 ; 20-21 .</ ref > These examples further show how Anaximenes like the other Milesians looked for the broader picture in nature, seeking unifying causes for diversely occurring events rather than treating each one on a case-by-case basis or attributing them to gods or a personified nature.

Having concluded that everything in the world is composed of air, Anaximenes then used his theory to devise a scheme explaining the origins and nature of the earth as well as of the surrounding celestial bodies.

According to Pausanias ( 6. 18. 6 ), Anaximenes was " the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously.

The more ambitious theory of Wilhelm Nitsche, which assigned to Anaximenes a larger part of the Demosthenic corpus ( speeches 10-13 and 25, letters 1-4, proems ), can be rejected.

His younger contemporary, Anaximenes ( 585-525 BCE ), took for his principle air ( aether ), conceiving it as modified, by thickening and thinning, into fire, wind, clouds, water, and earth.

* Anaximenes of Lampsacus ( 4th century BC ), Greek rhetorician and historian

* Anaximenes of Miletus ( 6th century BC ), Greek pre-Socratic philosopher

* Anaximenes ( crater ), a lunar crater

Whereas animism tends to view life as taking the form of discrete spirits, and panpsychism tends to refer to strictly philosophical views like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, hylozoism refers largely to views such as those of the earliest Greek philosophers ( 6th and 5th centuries BC ), who treated the magnet as alive because of its attractive powers ( Thales ), or air as divine ( Anaximenes ), perhaps because of its apparently spontaneous power of movement, or because of its role as essential for life in animals.

Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes ( Against the Letter of Philip ) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes ' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.

The Letter of Philip ( speech 12 ) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers.

Plutarch criticizes Anaximenes, together with Theopompus and Ephorus, for the " rhetorical effects and grand periods " these historians implausibly gave to men in the midst of urgent battlefield circumstances ( Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 803b ).

" His most noted students were Anaximenes of Miletus (" all is air ") and Anaximander ( all is apeiron ).

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

He wrote, apparently about the year 1143, a chronicle entitled Annales sive Historia de gestis regum Britanniae, which begins with Brutus and carries the history of England down to 1129.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

He also wrote several books on the history of Number Theory.

He wrote a boyish history of Corsica.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

In the month he spent traveling the region Guthrie wrote 26 songs, which have become an important part of the cultural history of the region.

The great historian of the Crusades, Sir Steven Runciman, wrote that the sack of Constantinople is “ unparalleled in history ”.

These were partly the result of the tireless travels he had begun in 1839 in search of unread manuscripts of the New Testament, " to clear up in this way ," he wrote, " the history of the sacred text, and to recover if possible the genuine apostolic text which is the foundation of our faith.

The church's archivist, fired in anticipation of the book's publication, wrote to branch churches to inform them of the book's history.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

Suetonius wrote his history on Caligula 80 years after his death, while Cassius Dio wrote his history over 180 years after Caligula's death.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

Paul and " Sosthenes our brother " wrote this epistle to " the church of God which is at Corinth ", in Greece.

The study of the physical material of the Earth dates back at least to ancient Greece when Theophrastus ( 372-287 BCE ) wrote the work Peri Lithon ( On Stones ).

At that time, John Cuthbert Lawson wrote: "... there is probably no nook or hamlet in all Greece where the womenfolk at least do not scrupulously take precautions against the thefts and malice of the nereids, while many a man may still be found to recount in all good faith stories of their beauty, passion and caprice.

* Hidden messages within wax tablets — in ancient Greece, people wrote messages on the wood, then covered it with wax upon which an innocent covering message was written.

His student Theophrastus ( Greece, 370-285 BC ) carried on this tradition, and wrote a classification of 480 plants called Historia Plantarum.

In 1983 Vangelis wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis ' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed featuring Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece.

He wrote on the history and geography of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece.

* Jean Giono ( 1895 – 1970 ), born in Manosque, wrote about peasant life in Provence, inspired by his imagination and by his vision of Ancient Greece.

It also states that he wrote two letters ( though the second letter, 2 Clement, is no longer ascribed to him ) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor Trajan's reign, or 101 AD.

Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece.

The book is presented as a thesis that combines with Velikovsky's series Ages in Chaos, concluding through his revision of Egyptian history that the Greeks who wrote the tragedy of Oedipus may have penned it in likeness of the life and story of Akhnaton, because in the revision Akhnaton would have lived much closer to the time when the legend first surfaced in Greece, providing an historical basis for the story.

Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.

Pausanias ( author of Periegesis of Greece ) wrote this of Amphiaraus in Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century A. D .:

Apparently as criticism, about 2, 400 years ago, in 390 BCE, Aristophanes wrote a play, Ecclesiazusae, about women gaining legislative power and governing Athens, Greece, on a limited principle of equality.

She also visited Switzerland, Italy, Palestine, and Greece between 1856 and 1861, and wrote popular accounts of her travels.

He also wrote marginal notes on the Description of Greece () of Pausanias.

During 1964, he wrote the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film Zorba the Greek, whose main theme, since then, exists as a trademark for Greece.

In November 1943 George wrote to the Prime Minister-in-exile Emmanouil Tsouderos, " I shall examine anew the question of the date of my return to Greece in agreement with the Government ".

Under the reign of the restored King Constantine I, Greece went on to lose the Greco-Turkish war with heavy military and civilian casualties ; Winston Churchill later wrote that " it was a monkey bite that caused the death of those 250, 000 people.

Often he would play the piano or spontaneously write short verses for such visitors, confining himself to conventional subjects such as Greece, the Seasons, or The Spirit of the Times, pure in versification but almost empty of affect, although a few of these ( such as the famous ' The Lines of Life ', Die Linien des Lebens, which he wrote out for his carer Zimmer on a piece of wood ) have a piercing beauty and have been set to music by many composers.

Callisthenes wrote an account of Alexander's expedition up to the time of his own execution, a history of Greece from the Peace of Antalcidas ( 387 ) to the Phocian war ( 357 ), a history of the Phocian war, and other works, all of which have perished.