ABSTRACT
The mid- and late fifth century Bc was characterised by a rich proliferation of philosophy in a diversity of schools in greater or less contact with one another. Melissus, referred to on p. 83, for example, was associated with the Eleatic School of Lower Italy, although he worked in his home town in Samos, where he held high municipal offices and enjoyed close contact with Athens. Anaxagoras was born in 499 Bc in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, but spent most of his life in Athens, where his pupil Archelaus of Miletus probably also studied with him. He in turn became one of Socrates' tutors. Cratylus, a pupil of Heraclitus of Ephesus, likewise seems to have lived mainly in Athens.
