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'''Antipater''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Ἀντίπατρος}}; fl. 1st century BC) of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] was a [[Stoicism|Stoic philosopher]], and a friend of [[Cato the Younger]] and [[Cicero]].<ref>[[Leonhard Schmitz]] claimed ([[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]], [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0213.html ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1867) Page 204]) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.</ref> |
'''Antipater''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Ἀντίπατρος}}; fl. 1st century BC) of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] was a [[Stoicism|Stoic philosopher]], and a friend of [[Cato the Younger]] and [[Cicero]].<ref>[[Leonhard Schmitz]] claimed ([[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]], [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0213.html ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1867) Page 204] {{wayback|url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0213.html |date=20070405181455 }}) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:43, 15 October 2016
Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος; fl. 1st century BC) of Tyre was a Stoic philosopher, and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero.[1]
Life
Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC.[2] He is mentioned by Strabo as a "famous philosopher" from Tyre.[3] Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when Cato was a young man, and introduced him to Stoic philosophy:[4]
Having gained the intimate acquaintance of Antipater the Tyrian, the Stoic philosopher, he [Cato] devoted himself to the study, above everything, of moral and political doctrine.
Works
Little is known about his writings. From Cicero we can perhaps infer that Antipater, like Panaetius, wrote a work On Duties (Latin: de Officiis):
Antipater of Tyre, a Stoic philosopher who recently died at Athens, claims that two points were overlooked by Panaetius — the care of health and of property.
Diogenes Laërtius[5] refers to another work by him called On the Cosmos (Greek: περὶ κόσμου):
The whole world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason, and having aether for its ruling principle: so says Antipater of Tyre in the eighth book of his treatise On the Cosmos.
— Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 139
Notes
- ^ Leonhard Schmitz claimed (William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867) Page 204 Template:Wayback) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.
- ^ Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86
- ^ Strabo, Geography, xvi. 2. 24
- ^ Plutarch, Cato the Younger. 4.
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 139, 142, 148