Euclid of Megara, a Greek Socratic philosopher who lived around 400 BC, was the follower of Socrates. He is mainly known for founding the megarian philosophical school, and being confused with the famous mathematician Euclid of Alexandria by editors and translators of Euclid's Elements in the Middle Ages. Greece, officaly called the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. ... Socrates This article is about the ancient Greek philosopher, for all other uses see: Socrates (disambiguation) Socrates (June 4, 470 – May 7, 399 BC) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was a Greek (Athenian) philosopher and one of the most important icons of the Western philosophical tradition. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC Years: 405 BC 404 BC 403 BC 402 BC 401 BC - 400 BC - 399 BC 398 BC... Socrates This article is about the ancient Greek philosopher, for all other uses see: Socrates (disambiguation) Socrates (June 4, 470 – May 7, 399 BC) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was a Greek (Athenian) philosopher and one of the most important icons of the Western philosophical tradition. ... Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: ) (circa 365–275 BC) was a Greek mathematician, now known as the father of geometry. His most famous work is Elements, widely considered to be historys most successful textbook. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the called the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ... Euclids Elements ( Greek Στοιχεία) is a mathematical treatise, consisting of 13 books, written by the Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BC. It comprises a collection of definitions, postulates, and proofs from Euclidean geometry, named after Euclid, and also Euclids account of number theory. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

He was born in Megara, but in Athen he became the follower of Socrates. After Socrates's trial and death, Euclid went back to Megara, where, at his home, other frightened pupils of Socrates found an asylum. Euclid became the founder of megarian philosophycal school. As he said, The Good is One, but we can call it by several names, sometimes as wisdom, sometimes as God, sometimes as Reason, and he declared the opposite of Good does not exists. We don't know anything written by him. Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece, on the Saronic Gulf opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. ... As told in the Apology—one of the best-known works of Greek philosophy and literature—the Trial of Socrates was a dramatic court case that led to the death of Socrates, the Greek philosopher. ...

His philosophy was a synthesis of the eleatic and socratic ideas. He identified the eleatic idea of One by the socratic idea of Good, but he called it Reason, God, and Mind too), and he said these were eternal and unchangeable. Because of these doctrines may contradict to empirical reality, they applied logic and rational reasoning to confute this. They descendants, the stoic logicians, were the deputizers of the most important logician school in the antiquity, beside peripatetics.

Euclid of Megara had three important pupils: Eubulides, Ichtyas – the second leader of the megarian school – and Thrasumakhus of Corinth, who was the master of Stilpo, who was the master of Zenon of Cythium; who was the founder of stoic school.

Resources

• Mates, Benson: Stoic Logic.