Griekse filosoof democritus biography

Was Anacharsis a seasoned traveller, an occasional voyager, a Scythian tourist with a one-way ticket to Greece, or was he a globetrotter, a wanderer with no destination? Was his thirst for knowledge, a philosophical quest for the truth, a... more

Was Anacharsis a seasoned traveller, an occasional voyager, a Scythian tourist with a one-way ticket to Greece, or was he a globetrotter, a wanderer with no destination? Was his thirst for knowledge, a philosophical quest for the truth, a desire to see the world with his own eyes, that made him one of the proverbial Seven Sages, or did his attraction to Greece originate from a necessity to belong? Or was it none of all this, and his travels were motivated simply by an appetite for educated conversation? 1 The answers to these questions are as varied as the identities of Anacharsis that emerge from the ancient sources available to us. 2 Herodotus comes first, chronologically: "when Anacharsis, having seen much of the world (γῆν πολλὴν θεωρήσας) and showed much wisdom through that (ἀποδεξάμενος κατ' αὐτὴν σοϕίην πολλὴν), was coming back to the Scythian country, sailing through the Hellespont, he puts in at Cyzicus." (4.76.2). There is a clear connection here between 'seeing' and 'wisdom'; it is through his

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