Antipater of Tyre
Template:Short descriptionAntipater of Tyre (Template:Langx; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek[1] Stoic philosopher and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero.[2]
Life
Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC.[3] He is mentioned by Strabo as a "famous philosopher" from Tyre.[4] Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when Cato was a young man, and introduced him to Stoic philosophy:[5] Template:Quote
Works
Little is known about his writings. From Cicero we can perhaps infer that Antipater, like Panaetius, wrote a work On Duties (Template:Langx): Template:Quote
Diogenes Laërtius[6] refers to another work by him called On the Cosmos (Template:Langx): Template:Quote
Notes
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- ↑ Leonhard Schmitz claimed (William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867) Page 204Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.
- ↑ Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86
- ↑ Strabo, Geography, xvi. 2. 24
- ↑ Plutarch, Cato the Younger. 4.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 139, 142, 148
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