Hegesinus of Pergamon

Hegesinus (Greek: Ἡγησίνος), of Pergamon, an Academic philosopher, the successor of Evander 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.

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References

• K. Algra, J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld, M. Schofield, 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).