Hegesinus of Pergamon
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Hegesinus (Greek: Ἡγησίνους), of Pergamon, an Academic philosopher, the successor of Euander and the immediate predecessor of Carneades as the leader (scholarch) of the Academy.[1] He was scholarch for a period around 160 BC. Nothing else is known about him.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, iv. 60; Cicero, Academica, ii. 6.
[edit] References
- Algra, K., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Pages 32-33. Cambridge University Press. (2005).
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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