Basilides (or Basileides, Greek: Βασιλείδης; c. 250 – c. 175 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens. c. 205 CE. It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested. Barnes and Brunschwig suggested that Basilides of Tyre and Basilides the Epicurean could be the same Basilides.
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Notes
- ^ Dorandi 1999, p. 52.
- ^ Laërtius 1925, § 25.
- ^ Diogenes Laertius. "Lives Of Eminent Philosophers II: 6 10".
- ^ Dorandi 1999, p. 45.
- ^ Jonathan Barnes & J. Brunschwig (2005). Science and Speculation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521022187.
References
- Dorandi, Tiziano (1999). "Chapter 2: Chronology". In Algra, Keimpe; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780521250283.
- Laërtius, Diogenes (1925). . Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Vol. 2:10. Translated by Hicks, Robert Drew (Two volume ed.). Loeb Classical Library. § 25.
