zoogony

d (see Martin and Primavesi 1999, 144-149) strengthens previous evidence for a kind of zoogony, taking place under the influence of Strife, which is fully distinct from the kind of zoogony under the influence of Love.

Empedocles

But in his zoogony, Empedocles also wrote about animals and how they came to be.

Empedocles

In each half of the cycle, as the separation or unification proceeds, there is a cosmogony (generation of a cosmos or ordered world) and a zoogony (generation of animals).

Empedocles

The idea of a single cosmogony and zoogony is attractive, in part, because it echoes other Presocratic philosophers.

Empedocles

However, they hold that there is only one cosmogony and zoogony.

Empedocles

It is clear that he associated zoogony with the influence of both Love and Strife.

Empedocles

On this interpretation there is a single cosmogony and zoogony, not two as on the traditional interpretations.

Empedocles

By contrast, in the second strain of interpretation, there is only one zoogony, which takes place under the increasing influence of Love, although Strife is still present.

Empedocles

Protagoras introduces his account of early man by a zoogony and regards the capacity for technology as a human trait which stands in lieu of the various natural advantages (claws, wings, bodily strength) which fit animals for survival.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

It consiste of a cosmogony, a zoogony, and an anthropology which Diodorus inserted into the preface (1. 7-8) to his Universal History (ca. 60-30 B.c.) on the authority, as he tells us, of "the most generally recognized natural scientists"

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