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[2] as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens c. 205 BC. 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.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Tiziano Dorandi, Chapter 2: Chronology, in Algra et al. (1999) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 52. Cambridge.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, x. 25
- ↑ Tiziano Dorandi, Chapter 2: Chronology, in Algra et al. (1999) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 45. Cambridge.
