EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY VI
DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA [64 DK]
P Chronology and Philosophical Affiliations (P1–P2)P1 (< A1) Diog. Laert. 9.57
Διογένης Ἀπολλοθέμιδος1 Ἀπολλωνιάτης, ἀνὴρ φυσικὸς καὶ ἄγαν ἐλλόγιμος. ἤκουσε δέ, φησὶν Ἀντισθένης [FGrHist 508 F15], Ἀναξιμένους. ἦν δὲ ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις κατ᾽ Ἀναξαγόραν [. . . = P4].
P2 (< A5) Simpl. In Phys., p. 25.1–3 (cf. Theophr. Frag. 226A FHS&G)
καὶ Διογένης δὲ ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης, σχεδὸν νεώτατος γεγονὼς τῶν περὶ ταῦτα σχολασάντων, τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα συμπεφορημένως γέγραφε,1 τὰ μὲν κατὰ Ἀναξαγόραν, τὰ δὲ κατὰ Λεύκιππον λέγων [. . . = D8].
DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA
DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA
P Chronology and Philosophical Affiliations (P1–P2)P1 (< A1) Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes of Apollonia, son of Apollothemis, a natural philosopher and a man of great reputation. Antisthenes says that he studied with Anaximenes; but in chronological terms he lived at the time of Anaxagoras [. . .].
P2 (< A5) Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Diogenes of Apollonia, virtually the youngest of those who taught on this subject [i.e. the principle from which the world came], wrote about most subjects in a composite manner, sometimes following Anaxagoras, other times Leucippus.