Persaeus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Persaeus the disciple of Zeno
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Orations
Disciple of Zeno who wrote further on the same Homeric thesis.
And besides, Persaeus the disciple of Zeno wrote according to the same thesis, and several others.
and, by Zeus, if a man should be entrusted by a king or a tyrant with gold or silver, or ships, or arms, or a citadel, or the whole empire—as Leptines often received Syracuse from his brother, and Philistus from the younger Dionysius, and the Magi the royal palace of the Persians from Cambyses, when he was on campaign in Egypt, and Mithranes the citadel of Sardis from Darius, and Persaeus the Acro …
On the Nature of the Gods
Stoic philosopher, pupil of Zeno, who held that beneficial discoveries and their discoverers were themselves divine.
than which what could be more absurd, either to invest base and unsightly things with the honour of gods, or to set among the gods men already swept away by death, whose every worship would be a matter of mourning?
But Persaeus, also a pupil of the same Zeno, held that those have been counted gods by whom some great benefit to the comforts of life had been discovered, and that useful and wholesome things themselves were called by the names of gods — so that he did not even say that those things were the discoveries of gods, but that they were themselves divine;