ABSTRACT
This chapter examines briefly the reports of what Eudemus is supposed to have said about Thales of Miletus. It explores the details of what Eudemus purportedly attributed to Thales concerning solar eclipses and examines the nature of Eudemus' written work on astronomy. According to scholarly tradition of long-standing, Eudemus, who apparently lived in the late fourth and early third centuries bc, was the author of a work on earlier Greek astronomy. According to Clement, Eudemus and Herodotus were in agreement about the circumstances of Thales' prediction of the solar eclipse— which may mean that Herodotus was Eudemus' source. The chapter concludes with the hypotheses that, according to Eudemus, Thales predicted an eclipse as well as explained what this phenomenon is; and that Eudemus' treatise was a doxography organized primarily by person and lacking critical analysis.
