Basilides the Epicurean

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Basilides (or Basileides, Greek: Βασιλείδης; c. 250 – c. 175 BC[1]) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens. c. 205 CE.[2][3] It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested.[4] Barnes and Brunschwig suggested that Basilides of Tyre and Basilides the Epicurean could be the same Basilides.[5]

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Notes

  1. ^ Dorandi 1999, p. 52.
  2. ^ Laërtius 1925, § 25.
  3. ^ Diogenes Laertius. "Lives Of Eminent Philosophers II: 6 10".
  4. ^ Dorandi 1999, p. 45.
  5. ^ Jonathan Barnes; J. Brunschwig (2005). "Science and Speculation". Cambridge University Press. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

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