Antipater of Tyre (died c.45 BC)

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Antipater of Tyre was a Stoic philosopher, of a later date than his namesake (though Vossius - de Hist. Gr. p. 392, ed. Westermann - confuses the two. He lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius, and Cicero (de Off. ii. 24), in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC. From this pas­sage we can infer that Antipater wrote a work on Duties (de Officiis), and Diogenes Laertius (vii. 139, 140,142,148) refers to a work by him on the Universe ("peri cosmou"), of which he quotes the eighth book.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).