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Hermotimus of Clazomenae

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relates a story about Hermotimus, in which Hermotimus' soul would depart his body during sleep, as if on a trip. His wife betrayed the oddity and his enemies came and burned his body while he was asleep, his soul returning too late.
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philosopher about whom many legendary feats were ascribed in antiquity, including the ability for his soul to leave his body and travel around. Some ancient sources also considered him a previous reincarnation of Pythagoras.
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records a story that Pythagoras remembered his earlier lives, one being Hermotimus, who had validated his own claim to recall earlier lives by recognizing the decaying shield of Menelaus in the temple of Apollo at
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The best evidence for Hermotimus' potential historical existence is a tradition that the people of Clazomenae erected a temple for him, which is related by
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Cornelli, Gabriele; McKirahan, Richard; Macris, Constantinos (29 October 2013).
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also credited him with some of the metaphysical doctrines on
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Index

Clazomenae
Greek
Presocratic
Aristotle
Nous
Anaxagoras
Pliny the Elder
Lucian
Apollonius
Plutarch
Aristotle
Anaxagoras
Sextus Empiricus
Hesiod
Parmenides
Empedocles
Lucian
Pythagorean
Diogenes Laërtius
Didyma
Tertullian


Curnow 2006
Curd 2007
Laërtius, Diogenes
"Pythagoreans: Pythagoras" 
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Hicks, Robert Drew
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays

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