John Raven, the Glossary
John Earle Raven (13 December 1914 – 5 March 1980) was an English classical scholar, notable for his work on pre-Socratic philosophy, and amateur botanist.[1]
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76 relations: Alcmaeon of Croton, Anaxagoras, Ancient philosophy, Andrew Raven, Archelaus (philosopher), Bethnal Green, Botany, British undergraduate degree classification, Cambridge, Carex bicolor, Charles E. Raven, Charlton Wollaston, Christ's College, Cambridge, Classics, Colleges of Durham University, Conscientious objector, Dean of Rochester, English language, English people, Eurytus (Pythagorean), Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society, Francis Wollaston (astronomer), Francis Wollaston (scientist), Geoffrey Kirk, George Wollaston, Greek language, Guy Clutton-Brock, Harris, Outer Hebrides, High jump, Iamb (poetry), Inner Hebrides, Jack Heslop-Harrison, James Chuter Ede, John William Heslop-Harrison, King's College, Cambridge, Latin, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Left-wing politics, London Review of Books, Marlborough College, Max Walters, Melissus of Samos, Ministry of Education (United Kingdom), Myles Burnyeat, Nature (journal), Outer Hebrides, Oxford House (settlement), Parmenides, Philolaus, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
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Alcmaeon of Croton
Alcmaeon of Croton (Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; fl. 5th century BC) was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist.
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; 500 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
Ancient philosophy
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history.
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Andrew Raven
Andrew Owen Earle Raven OBE (22 January 1959 – 4 October 2005) was a British conservationist and an influential contributor to modern land policy in Scotland. John Raven and Andrew Raven are people from Cambridge.
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Archelaus (philosopher)
Archelaus (Ἀρχέλαος; fl. 5th century BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Anaxagoras, and may have been a teacher of Socrates.
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Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
British undergraduate degree classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Carex bicolor
Carex bicolor, the bicoloured sedge, is a species of sedge native to North America, Northern Europe and Northern Asia.
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Charles E. Raven
Charles Earle Raven (4 July 1885 – 8 July 1964) was an English theologian and Anglican priest.
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Charlton Wollaston
Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764) was an English medical doctor, physician to Guy's Hospital from 1762.
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Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
Colleges of Durham University
The Colleges of Durham University are residential colleges that are the primary source of accommodation and support services for undergraduates and postgraduates at Durham University, as well as providing a focus for social, cultural and sporting life for their members, and offering bursaries and scholarships to students.
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Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.
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Dean of Rochester
The Dean of Rochester is the head of the chapter of canons at Rochester Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
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Eurytus (Pythagorean)
Eurytus (Εὔρυτος; fl. 400 BC) was an eminent Pythagorean philosopher from Magna Graecia who Iamblichus in one passage describes as a native of Croton, while in another, he enumerates him among the Tarentine Pythagoreans.
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Fellow
A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".
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Francis Wollaston (astronomer)
Francis Wollaston (23 November 1731, London – 31 October 1815) was a British astronomer and Church of England priest.
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Francis Wollaston (scientist)
Francis Wollaston (6 June 1694, in London – 27 December 1774) was an English scientist.
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Geoffrey Kirk
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. John Raven and Geoffrey Kirk are British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy, English classical scholars and members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics.
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George Wollaston
George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Guy Clutton-Brock
Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995) was an English social worker who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm in what was then Rhodesia.
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Harris, Outer Hebrides
Harris (Na Hearadh) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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High jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.
Iamb (poetry)
An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
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Inner Hebrides
The Inner Hebrides (the Inner Isles) is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.
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Jack Heslop-Harrison
John Heslop-Harrison FRS FAAAS (10 February 1920 – 8 May 1998) was a British soldier and botanist. John Raven and Jack Heslop-Harrison are 20th-century British botanists.
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James Chuter Ede
James Chuter Chuter-Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede, (11 September 1882 – 11 November 1965), was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
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John William Heslop-Harrison
John William Heslop Harrison, (1881–1967) was a professor of Botany at King's College, Durham University (now Newcastle University), specialising in the genetics of moths.
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King's College, Cambridge
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy
The Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence; it is the oldest chair of ancient philosophy in the world.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.
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Marlborough College
Marlborough College is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. John Raven and Marlborough College are people educated at Marlborough College.
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Max Walters
Stuart Max Walters (23 May 1920 – 11 December 2005) was a British botanist and academic. John Raven and Max Walters are New Naturalist writers.
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Melissus of Samos
Melissus of Samos (Μέλισσος ὁ Σάμιος) was the third and last member of the ancient school of Eleatic philosophy, whose other members included Zeno and Parmenides.
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Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Education (1944–1964) was a central government department governed by the Minister of Education, with responsibility in England and Wales for.
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Myles Burnyeat
Myles Fredric Burnyeat (1 January 1939 – 20 September 2019) was an English scholar of ancient philosophy. John Raven and Myles Burnyeat are British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy, English classical scholars and members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
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Oxford House (settlement)
Oxford House in Bethnal Green, East London, was established in September 1884 as one of the first "settlements" by Oxford University as a High-Anglican Church of England counterpart to Toynbee Hall, established around the same time at Whitechapel.
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Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
Philolaus
Philolaus (Φιλόλαος, Philólaos) was a Greek Pythagorean and pre-Socratic philosopher.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Polycarpon tetraphyllum
Polycarpon tetraphyllum, commonly known as four-leaved allseed (also fourleaf allseed or fourleaf manyseed), is a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae.
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Pre-Socratic philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.
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Prose
Prose is the form of written language (including written speech or dialogue) that follows the natural flow of speech, a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or typical writing conventions and formatting.
Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.
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Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. John Raven and Rab Butler are people educated at Marlborough College.
Rùm
Rùm, a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, in the district of Lochaber.
Regius Professor of Divinity
The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
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Research fellow
A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members.
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Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Samuel Hole
Samuel Reynolds Hole (5 December 1819 – 27 August 1904) was an English Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist in the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th.
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Sarah Raven
Sarah Clare Raven (born 3rd February 1963) is an English gardener, cook and writer. John Raven and Sarah Raven are people from Cambridge.
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Scholarship
A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.
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Shepreth
Shepreth is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, lying halfway between Cambridge and Royston.
St Ronan's School
Saint Ronan's School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for boys and girls from 3 to 13 years located in Hawkhurst in Kent, England.
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Undergraduate education
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education, usually in a college or university.
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William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.
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William Temple (bishop)
William Temple (15 October 1881 – 26 October 1944) was an English Anglican priest, who served as Bishop of Manchester (1921–1929), Archbishop of York (1929–1942) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1942–1944).
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William Wollaston
William Wollaston (26 March 165929 October 1724) was a school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, theologian, and a major Enlightenment era English philosopher.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Worthing
Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester.
Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
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See also
British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
- A. A. Long
- A. H. Armstrong
- Allan Coxon
- Andrew Barker (classicist)
- Barbara Sattler (philosopher)
- Benjamin Jowett
- Christopher Rowe (classicist)
- David Bostock (philosopher)
- David Charles (philosopher)
- David Sedley
- Edward Meredith Cope
- Eric A. Havelock
- F. M. Cornford
- G. E. L. Owen
- G. E. R. Lloyd
- Geoffrey Kirk
- Henry Jackson (classicist)
- Henry William Chandler
- Ingram Bywater
- J. L. Ackrill
- John Burnet (classicist)
- John Harward
- John Raven
- John Rist
- Jonathan Barnes
- Julia Annas
- M. M. McCabe
- Malcolm Schofield
- Martin Ferguson Smith
- Myles Burnyeat
- Pamela Huby
- Peter Kingsley
- Raphael Woolf
- Reginald Hackforth
- Richard Sorabji
- Robert Gregg Bury
- Robert Sharples (classicist)
- Robin Waterfield
- Sebastian Gertz
- Sophie Grace Chappell
- Terence Irwin
- Thomas Taylor (neoplatonist)
- Verity Harte
- W. D. Ross
- W. K. C. Guthrie
- William Hepworth Thompson
People from Shepreth
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Raven
Also known as J. E. Raven, J.E. Raven, John Earle Raven.
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