Aeschines of Neapolis

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Aeschines (Gr. Αισχίνης) of Neapolis was a Peri­patetic philosopher who was at the head of the Academy at Athens, together with Charmades and Clitomachus about 109 BC.[1][2] Diogenes Laertius says that he was a pupil of Melanthus of Rhodes.[3]

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  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Aeschines (3)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 40 
  2. ^ Cicero, De Oratore i. 11
  3. ^ Diogenes Laertius, ii. 64

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).