Description - Dicaearchus of Messana by William W. Fortenbaugh
This tenth volume in the series Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities is devoted to Dicaearchus of Messana (fl. c. 320 B.C.), a peripatetic philosopher, who, like Theophrastus of Eresus, was a pupil of Aristotle. Dicaearchus's life is not well documented. There is no biography by Diogenes Laertius, and what the Suda offers is meager. The interests of Dicaearchus were in certain respects narrower than those of Aristotle. In contrast, his work On the Soul recalls the Aristotelian treatise of the same title, but Dicaearchus's work, which was not an esoteric treatise, was a dialogue in two parts - The Corinthian and Lesbian Dialogue. His interest in good and bad life styles found expression in works such as On the Sacrifice at Ilium, and On the Destruction of Human Beings, in which he presented man himself, not wild animals and natural disasters, as the greatest threat to mankind. He wrote on the constitutions of Pellene, Corinth, and Athens. Circuit of the Earth was a work of descriptive geography in which Dicaearchus said that the earth has the shape of a globe.
This interest in earth's sphericity led him to make maps and discuss other phenomena like the cause of ebb- and flood tide and the source of the Nile River. The largest number of texts in the collection deal with cultural history, most of which stem from his Life of Greece, while the smallest section deals with politics.
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