Thinkers of the Classical Antiquity
Tatian
120 – 173
Religionquotes
Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions
Justin_Martyr
100 – 165
Philosophyquotes
Justin Martyr, also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and provides various arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church. Justin also indicates that historical manifestations of the Logos predated Christ's incarnation, and that many historical Greek philosophers were unknowing Christians.
The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.
Apuleius
125 – 170
Literaturequotes
Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries.
No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed.
Pausanias
150 – 175
Literaturequotes
Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
Posidonius
135 – present
Mathematicsquotes
Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes", was a Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was considered the most learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. After a period learning Stoic philosophy from Panaetius in Athens, he spent many years in travel and scientific researches in Spain, Africa, Italy, Gaul, Liguria, Sicily and on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.
Words from December 8
"Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions"
Tatian
120
"Die to the world, repudiating the insanity that pervades it. Live to God, and by apprehending God, apprehend your own nature as a spiritual being created in his image."
Tatian
120
"The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated."
Justin_Martyr
100
"No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed."
Apuleius
125
"They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which He has built..."
Apuleius
125
"Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics."
Pausanias
150