Mnesarchus biography of christopher

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. – c. 85 BC)

Mnesarchus or Mnesarch (Greek: Μνήσαρχος, Mnēsarkhos), of Athens, was a Stoic philosopher, who lived c.

Mnesarchus biography of christopher

– c. 85 BC.

Biography

Mnesarchus was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus. Cicero says^[1] that he was one of the leaders of the Stoic school (Latin: principes Stoicorum) at Athens together with Dardanus at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away from scepticism (c.

95 BC). He was the teacher of Antiochus for a time,^[2] and he may also have taught Philo of Larissa.^[3] After the death of Panaetius ( BC), the Stoic school at Athens seems to have fragmented, and Mnesarchus was probably one of several leading Stoics teaching in this era.

He was probably dead by the time Cicero was learning philosophy in Athens in 79 BC.

Cicero mentions him several times and seems to have been familiar with some of his writings:

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