Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Anexagoras's Idea of Air Permeating Everything
It's because of air that we have intelligence, according to this papyrus. Anaxagoras had the similar idea that a mind was in every thin and controls the universe. This whole complex idea of mind and air permeating the universe is also in the levani popyrus. And so that pins it down, gives it a date after which it has to be composedof roughly the four twenties.
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