Platonists on Superphysics

Arcesilaus: Plato

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¹ Arcesilaus was:

the son of Seuthes or Scythes, as Apollodorus states in the third book of his Chronicles, and a native of Pitane in Æolia.

² He was the original founder of the Middle Academy, and the first man who professed to suspend the declaration of his judgment, because of the contrarieties of the reasons alleged on either side.

Clitomachus

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¹ Clitomachus was a Carthaginian. He was called Asdrubal, and used to lecture on philosophy in his own country in his native language.

² He came to Athens at 40 years old amd became a pupil of Carneades who was pleased with his industry.

Crates: Polemo, Plato

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Crates + Polemo

¹ Crates was:

the son of Antigenes
from the Thriasian burgh
a pupil and attached friend of Polemo.

He was also his successor as president of his school.

Diogenes of Sinope

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¹ Diogenes was:

a native of Sinope
the son of Hicesius, a money-changer

Diocles says that he was forced to flee from his native city, as his father kept the public bank there, and had adulterated the coinage.

Eudoxus: Plato

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¹ Eudoxus was:

the son of Æschines
a native of Cnidus
an astronomer, a geometrician, a physician, and a lawgiver.

In geometry

Callimachus says in his Tablets that he was a pupil of:

Polemo: Xenocrates

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¹ Polemo was the son of Philostratus, an Athenian, of the burgh of Œa.

When he was young, he was so very intemperate and profligate, that he used always to carry money about with him, to procure the instant gratification of his passions.

Speusippus: Plato

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^1-2 Plato was succeeded by Speusippus who was:

the son of Eurymedon
a citizen of Athens
of the Myrrhinusian burgh
the son of Plato’s sister Potone.

III. He presided over his school for eight years, beginning to do so in the hundred and eighth olympiad. And he set up images of the Graces in the temple of the Muses, which had been built in the Academy by Plato.

Stilpo: Platonists

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¹ Stilpo was:

a native of Megara in Greece
a pupil of some of Euclides’ school

But some say that he was a pupil of Euclides himself. And also of Thrasymachus, the Corinthian, who was a friend of Icthyas, as Heraclides informs us.

Xenocrates: Plato

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¹ Xenocrates was:

the son of Agathenor
a native of Chalcedon

From his early youth he was a pupil of Plato, and also accompanied him in his voyages to Sicily.