dicaearchus

Updated: May 31, 2025

Polybius accepted the principle of the Mixed Constitution, but found his ideal in the constitution of Rome, which later history was to prove so violently unstable. Dicaearchus treated of similar political subjects in his public addresses at Olympia and at the Panathenaea.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion

This is one of the regions in which the ancients might have learned much from us, and in which we still have much to learn from them, if once we can shake off our temporal obsessions and listen. As an example it is worth noticing, even in a bare catalogue, the work done by one of Aristotle's own pupils, a Peripatetic of the second rank, Dicaearchus of Messene.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion