Antiochus of Ascalon
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Antiochus of Ascalon (c. 130 BC - 68 BC) was a Greek philosopher. His philosophy consisted in an attempt to reconcile the doctrines of his teachers Philo of Larissa and Mnesarchus the Stoic. Against the scepticism of the former, he held that the intellect has in itself a sufficient test of truth; against Mnesarchus, that happiness, though its main factor is virtue, depends also on outward circumstances. Being a Platonist, he also included elements of Peripateticism and Stoicism. This electicism is known as the Fifth Academy (see Greek Academy). His writings are lost, and we are indebted for information to Cicero (Acad. Pr. ii. 43), who studied under him at Athens, and Sextus Empiricus (Pyrrh. hyp. i. 235). Antiochus lectured also in Rome and Alexandria.
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- R. Hoyer, De Antiocho Ascalonita (Bonn, 1883).
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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