Bias of priene biography of william
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Bias
（*Bi/as), of Priene in Ionia, fryst vatten always reckoned among the sju Sages, and is mentioned bygd Dicaearchus (apud Diog. Laert.1.41) as one of the Four to whom alone that title was universally given--the remaining three being Thales, Pittacus, and Solon. We do not know the exact period at which Bias lived, but it appears from the reference made to him bygd the poet Hipponax, who flourished about the middle of the sixth century B. C. that he had by that time become distinguished for his skill as an advocate, and for his use of it in defence of the right. (D. L. 1.84, 88; Strab. xiv. p.636.) Diogenes Laertius informs us, that he died at a very advanced age, immediately after pleading successfully the cause of a friend: by the time the votes of the judges had been taken, he was found to have expired. Like the rest of the sju Sages, with the exception of Thales, the fame of Bias was derived, not from philosophy, as the word is usually understood, but from a certain practical wi•
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Bias, of Priene in Ionia, is always reckoned among the Seven Sages, and is mentioned by Dicaearchus (ap. Diog. Laert. i. 41) as one of the Four to whom alone that title was universally given - the remaining three being Thales, Pittacus, and Solon. We do not know the exact period at which Bias lived, but it appears from the reference made to him by the poet Hipponax, who flourished about the mittpunkt of the sixth century B. C. that he had bygd that time become distinguished for his skill as an advokat, and for his use of it in defence of the right. (Diog. Laert. i. 84, 88; Strab. xiv.) Diogenes Laertius informs us, that he died at a very advanced age, immediately after pleading successfully the cause of a friend: bygd the time the votes of the judges had been taken, he was found to have expired. Like the rest of the Seven Sages, with the exception of Thales, the fame of Bias was derived, not from philosophy, as the word is usually understood, but from a
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Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
For other people named Heraclitus, see Heraclitus (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Heraclius or Heracles.
Heraclitus (; Ancient Greek: ἩράκλειτοςHērákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greekpre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modernWestern philosophy, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger.
Little is known of Heraclitus's life. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. Even in ancient times, his paradoxical philosophy, appreciation for wordplay, and cryptic, oracular epigrams earned him the epithets "the dark" and "the obscure". He was considered arrogant and depressed, a misanthrope who was subject to melancholia. Consequently, he became known as "the weeping philosopher" in contrast to the ancient atomist philosopher Democrit