[Carry_Okie]

As I recall, Sophocles predated Aristotle.

[Texan5]

This guy was a Brit, with an English name, and wrote in the so-called "Age of Reason". He was probably just parroting Sophocles-I understand that a lot of the 18th century "philosophers" just repeated Greek ideas. My guess is that they didn't have any ideas of their own.