Clearchus of Soli

Clearchus of Soli was a Greek philosopher, student of Aristotle and the Peripatetics first generation. The exact survival data are not recorded, but to open up: born before 340 BC in Soli in Cyprus, Klearchos probably lived until the middle of the 3rd century BC Among the Peripatetics, it is characterized by the fact that he not turned away from Plato. At biographical and psychological issues of interests, he wrote "On Education" (peri paideias ).

Klearchos is by Louis Robert, the founder of an inscription that during excavations in the Greek colony in Ai Khanoum in Afghanistan (possibly Alexandria on the Oxus ) was found in 1965. There Clearchus was a stone pillar with the sayings of the set " Seven Sages " in the sacred grove of the city founder Kineas. This inscription is an outstanding example of the spiritual Hellenization and the promotion of Greek culture in the empire of Alexander.

Literature and sources

• Hans Gottschalk: Klearchos. In: Brill's New Pauly, Volume 6, Stuttgart 1999, p 502
• Fritz Wehrli: The school of Aristotle. Vol 3, Issue 2: Klearchos. 2, supplemented and revised edition. Schwabe, Basel, 1969 ( collection of fragments d Klearchos a comment).
• Stavros Tsitsiridis: Contributions to the fragments of Clearchus of Soli. De Gruyter, 2013 ISBN 978-3-11-025967-4 [ print edition ]. ; ISBN 978-3-11-025968-1 [ eBook ]

For inscription from Ai Khanoum:

• Louis Robert De Delphes à l' Oxus. Inscriptions grecques nouvelles de la Bactriane. In: Comptes rendus de l' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de 1968, p 416-457. Reproduction in idem: Opera Minora Selecta. Vol 5 Hakkert, Amsterdam 1989. Pp. 510-552 ( with illustration).
• Reinhold Merkel Bach, Josef Stauber: The Steinepigramme of the Greek East. Vol 2 Saur, Munich, 2001.