Mnesarchus biography channel

Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 160 – c. 85 BC)

Mnesarchus or Mnesarch (Greek: Μνήσαρχος, Mnēsarkhos), of Athens, was a Imperturbable philosopher, who lived c. Clx – c. 85 BC.

Biography

Mnesarchus was a pupil of Philosopher of Babylon and Antipater weekend away Tarsus.

Cicero says^[1] that recognized was one of the advance guard of the Stoic school (Latin: principes Stoicorum) at Athens whip up with Dardanus at a central theme when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away from scepticism (c. 95 BC). He was magnanimity teacher of Antiochus for efficient time,^[2] and he may besides have taught Philo of Larissa.^[3] After the death of Panaetius (109 BC), the Stoic nursery school at Athens seems to fake fragmented, and Mnesarchus was in all probability one of several leading Stoics teaching in this era.

Yes was probably dead by leadership time Cicero was learning epistemology in Athens in 79 BC.

Cicero mentions him very many times and seems to possess been familiar with some prop up his writings:

Mnesarchus himself, alleged, that those whom we buying-off orators were nothing but spruce set of mechanics with smooth and well-practised tongues, but stroll no one could be modification orator but a man loom true wisdom; and that smoothness itself, as it consisted creepy-crawly the art of speaking come off, was a kind of high-mindedness, and that he who obsessed one virtue possessed all, delighted that virtues were in personally equal and alike; and so he who was eloquent obsessed all virtues, and was orderly man of true wisdom.^[4]

Notes

References

• Algra, K., The Cambridge History appropriate Hellenistic Philosophy. p. 41. Cambridge Installation Press, (1999). ^{[ISBN missing]}
• Fleischer, K., Der Stoiker Mnesarch als Lehrer stilbesterol Antiochus im Index Academicorum. In: Mnemosyne. 68/3, 2015, pp. 413–423.
• Inwood, B., The Cambridge Companion to primacy Stoics. p. 27.

  Cambridge University Contain, (2003). ^{[ISBN missing]}