Remedium memoriae. The Peripatetic construction of the intellectual history of Greece. Dicaearchus’ Biography of philosophy by Eugene Afonasin

“…The Peripatetic Dicaearchus composed a series of works dedicated to the intellectual history of Greece. In a sense, he was the first ancient author to write a comprehensive history of philosophy, centered on such key figures, as the Seven Sages, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato. …”
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The “relics” of the past. Aristotle – the historian of philosophy by Eugene Afonasin

“…In this respect they are valuable clues for a retrospective reconstruction of the intellectual history of Greece, and Aristotle was the first to develop in his works a sense of historical consciousness, prerequisite for such a reconstruction, although some contemporary authors would contest this view. …”
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