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miletus
/maɪˈliːtəs/
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What does miletus mean?
proper noun
- ancient Greek city on the west coast of Caria, Anatolia
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Solon went, they say, to Thales at Miletus, and wondered that Thales took no care to get him a wife and children.
The first of these vitalizers of thought, who stands out at the beginnings of Greek history, is this same Thales, of Miletus.
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However this may be, we are told that Thales of Miletus attributed the attractive properties of the amber and the lodestone to a soul within them.
The poet Homer and the philosopher Thales of Miletus agreed in regarding water as the primal element, the original of all existences, and their theory has supporters among many primitive peoples.
Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, Tarentum and Locri in Italy, Ephesus and Miletus in Lesser Asia, appear, by all accounts, to have been at least equal to any of the cities of ancient Greece.