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Xenocrates, On Food Derived from Animals

Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor: On Eating


source documents [2nd-3rd c.] Clement of Alexandria, "On Eating: Xenocrates on Food Derived from Animals," in The Instructor [Paedagogus] in Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria vol. 2 in Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 edited by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson in 10 vols. [1885-96 American reprint of the 1866-72 Edinburgh edition; Online at Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2004).

Now Xenocrates, treating by himself of "the food derived from animals," and Polemon in his work On Life according to Nature, seem clearly to say that animal food is unwholesome, inasmuch as it has already been elaborated and assimilated to the souls of the irrational creatures.

Animal Rights History Timeline: Antiquity [BCE-c485]

Antiquity: Mythical-Divine Origin; Remote-Classical Antiquity [BCE]
Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-c485]


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[c396-314 BCE] Xenocrates

Ancient Sources: Xenocrates
[1st-2nd c.] A Saying of Xenocrates, Plutarch, On Eating Flesh
[2nd-3rd c.] Xenocrates On Food Derived From Animals, Clement of Alexandria, Instructor: On Eating
[3rd c.] And the Philosopher Xenocrates Asserts, Porphyry, Abstinence from Animal Food



Xenocrates



Animal Rights History Timeline: Antiquity [BCE-c485]

Antiquity: Mythical-Divine Origin; Remote-Classical Antiquity [BCE]
Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-c485]


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