Charmadas

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Charmadas, (or Charmides), who lived c. 164 -c. 95 BC,[1] was an Academic philosopher and a disciple of Clitomachus at the Academy in Athens. He was a friend and companion (as he had been the fellow-pupil) of Philo of Larissa. He was teaching in Athens by 110 BC, and was clearly an important philosopher.[2] He was still alive in 103 BC,[3] but was dead by 91 BC.[4] Cicero tells us that he was remarkable for his eloquence and for the great extent and retentiveness of his memory. His philosophical opinions were doubtless similar with those of Philo.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Algra, K., (1999), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 34. Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Cicero, De Oratore, i. 45-47.
  3. ^ Cicero, De Oratore, i. 82-84.
  4. ^ Cicero, De Oratore, ii. 360.

[edit] References

  • Brittain, C., (2001), Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptics, pages 46-58, 311-329. Oxford University Press.
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