From the Beginning to Plato

eality, Parmenides on 132, 135, 139–45,
149–51, 171–2
reciprocity, in Hesiod 18–19
recollection 203, 362–3, 373–5, 432
(see also Forms, Platonic, recollection
of)
regular solids 276–7, 282, 298, 311n7
reincarnation 129–30, 427, 428
relativism:
cultural 2, 5, 10;
Dissoi Logoi on 264–5
religion, ritual 25–8, 90–5, 96, 102, 104–5,
114–15, 117n8, 118n10, 119n34;
cult statues 13, 26, 27–8;
processions 25, 26;
sacrifice 17–18, 25, 27, 93, 198–9
(see also festivals;
gods, worship of)
respiration 193–4, 197, 201
rhapsodes 19
rhetoric 20, 247–8, 255–6, 332, 337, 343,
446;
and democracy 40;
in Iliad 22
river fragments (Heraclitus) 99, 101,
121n55
satyrs 33, 37
scepticism 68, 77–8;
was Democritus a sceptic? 228–33
Sceptics 89, 106
science:
Parmenides’ requirements for scientific
cosmology 147–9, 164, 172;
scientific instruments 47–8
sculpture 13–14, 27;
development of 12–14
sea 63–4, 75–6, 78, 82
seasons 102, 121n25
secondary qualities 228, 233–4
‘seeds’ (spermata), in Anaxagoras 210
senses:
hearing 191, 193;
sight 191–3;
smell 192–3, 201
(see also perception)
silver mines 39
INDEX OF TOPICS 437
skill, art, craft (technē) 334, 347n51,
349n72
slavery 39;
slave and free, contrast of 103, 105
sleep 95, 97, 98, 100, 104, 105, 109
sophia 9, 16–17, 32, 40;
in Plato 325, 328, 330–4, 336–7, 330–
40, 345n23, 346nn29 & 39, 347n43,
349n69, 350n75, 402
sophists 244–70, 332, 333, 335, 341, 343,
345n18, 346nn30 & 42, 350n76;
sophistic methods of argument 246–8;
sophistic morality 332–5;
the term sophistēs 244
soul (psuchē) 3, 7, 48, 60, 69, 99, 104–5,
107, 121n55, 129, 234, 329, 331, 332,
342, 344n13, 351n85, 425–37, 447n1;
tripartition of, in Plato 399–404, 405–
6, 409, 430–2, 433–7, 441–2
spatial words and properties:
in Parmenides 143–4;
in Zeno 154, 159
sphere 52, 55, 59, 73–4
‘stadium’ argument:
see ‘dichotomy’
stars 50, 57–60, 76
sun 49–50, 57–60, 67, 76–7, 79–81
Stoics 89, 120n60
Strife (Neikos), in Empedocles 182–6, 191,
198, 200, 203
succession myths 19
sufficient reason, principle of 51–5, 61, 67,
80, 139, 141, 148, 212, 221–2, 224, 225–
6
sumbola:
see akousmata
sumptuary legislation 31
swirl, cosmic 186, 219, 224–5
syllabaries 11
symmetry 53–5, 80
symposium 32–3
system 57–60, 68, 76, 83
temperance (sōphrosunē) 328, 334, 335,
337, 338, 350n75, 402–4
temples 26–7, 31
tense-logic 140