Hippo
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Protrepticus
Philosopher who ordered an elegy inscribed on his own tomb declaring Fate made him equal to the immortal gods in death; his frankness is praised as an 'oracle' exposing human error.
"This is the tomb of Hippo, whom Fate made equal to the immortal gods in his death.
Stromata
Daughter of Chiron who taught Aeolus natural philosophy and is credited by Euripides with prophetic gifts.
and Hippo, the daughter of the Centaur, dwelling with Aeolus, taught him natural philosophy, the science of her fathers.
De Anima
Philosopher who held the soul is composed of water.
And I do not mean only those who fashion it out of manifest bodily things — as Hipparchus and Heraclitus out of fire, as Hippo and Thales out of water, as Empedocles and Critias out of blood, as Epicurus out of atoms (if atoms too compose corporealities by their conjunction), as Critolaus and his Peripatetics out of some fifth substance I know not what (if that too is a body, since it includes bod …