id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4397 Lucius Annaeus Cornutus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1626 242 61 Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνναῖος Κορνοῦτος), a Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of Nero[1] (c. Cornutus wrote a work on Rhetoric,[5] and a commentary on the Categories of Aristotle, (πρὸς Ἁθηνόδωρον καὶ Ἀριστοτέλην)[6] whose philosophy he attacked along with his fellow Stoic Athenodorus.[7] He also wrote a work called On Properties (Περὶ ἐκτῶν).[8] His one major surviving work, the philosophical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium ("Compendium of Greek Theology")[9] is a manual of "popular mythology as expounded in the etymological and symbolical interpretations of the Stoics".[1][10] This early example of a Roman educational treatise, provided an account of Greek mythology on the bases of highly elaborated etymological readings. We are told that the world has a soul that preserves it called Zeus[13] who dwells in Heaven whose substance is fiery.[14] Zeus is the power that pervades everything,[15] and who assigns Fate to each person.[16] The gods have sent us Reason (Logos),[17] which does not work evil,[18] but which is part of the divine Reason of the universe: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4397.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4397.txt