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Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe

by Ocellus Lucanus

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Attributed to Ocellus of Lucania, a follower of Pythagoras, though probably written later, this short Greek treatise argues that the universe was never generated and will never perish. Thomas Taylor, the Platonist translator, adds a fragment on laws preserved by Stobaeus, Taurus on the eternity of the world, and extracts from Proclus and Julius Firmicus Maternus.

An interesting relic of ancient cosmology for students of Greek philosophy and its English revival. Download the free EPUB.

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