MAIMONIDES’ COSMOLOGY ANCESTORS IN ANTIQUITY
Maimonides’ cosmological outlook was determinated not only by his Medieval contemporary intellectuals but above all by his predecessors in Antiquity. In the article the author considers main cosmological ideas of Greek philosophers beginning with Milesians till Neo-Platonists. First of all Greek term ἀρχή (arche , i.e. First Principle) is analyzed because this notion was actively reconsidered by Medieval thinkers. Also in the article Talmudic and Midrashim sources are regarding as Late-Antiquity phenomena with Hellenistic background in its cosmological aspects. By its way Maimonides as philosopher was under Classical outlook infuence.