In existographies, Anaxarchus (c.380-320BC) was a Greek philosopher (see: Greek philosophy), a student of Metrodorus, an advisor to Alexander the Great, whose philosophy (Ѻ) was a mixture of the atomism of Democritus and the skepticism of Pyrrho, noted for []. [1]
Anecdote
A noted anecdote, as reported by Plutarch (Ѻ), is that after Anaxarchus told Alexander the Great that there was an infinite number of worlds, he wept, per reason that he was sad that in the new big scope of things, with such a vast multitude of worlds, he was not able to even conquer one of them.
References
1. Taylor, C.C.W. (1999). The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments: a Text and Translation with a Commentary by C.C.W. Taylor (pg. 59). University of Toronto Press.
External links
● Anaxarchus – Wikipedia.
