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  • Aristotle, Mathematics, and Colour

  • Richard Sorabji
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / December 1972
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 293-308
    Print publication:
    December 1972

  • Aristotle says in the De Sensu that other colours are produced through the mixture of black bodies with white (440a31–b23). The obvious mixture for him to be referring to is the mixture of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, which he describes at such length in the De Generatione et Corruptione. All compound bodies are produced ultimately through the mixture of these elements. The way in which the elements mix is described in i. 10 and 2. 7. They mix in such a way as to produce an entirely new substance, in which the characteristics of the original earth, air, fire, and water survive only in modified form.

  • Euripides HippolΥtus 1120–1150

  • Raanan Meridor
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / December 1972
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 231-235
    Print publication:
    December 1972

  • The difficulty in the apostrophe of the (1144–5) has been noticed by commentators. So Barrett (ad loc.): ‘/ this cannot mean that the Amazon from Hipp, now that he is exiled: in all the forms of her legend … she meets a violent death at a time which cannot be long after Hipp.'s birth, and it is inconceivable that Eur. should mean his audience to think of her as still alive in Trozen or Athens.’

    What seems to have passed unnoticed is that there are, in this choral ode (the triad 1120–50), two other passages which also suffer from at least prima facie incongruities with details of the story well known to the audience:

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