The American Minervan

Tag: Epimenides the Cretan

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    THE TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF GREECE AND THEIR FAMOUS MAXIMS Peter Kingsley portrays these pre-Socratic philosophers not as rationalists but as sages in a sacred, shamanic tradition and lineage originating from eastern influences e.g., Phocaea, an ancient Ionian Greek city of Anatolia, transplanted to southern Italy. The schools of these eminent sages emphasized incubation, divine…