Python of Aenus
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Python of Aenus (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx; fl. 4th-century BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a former student of Plato.[1] Around 360 BC, he and his brother Heraclides assassinated Cotys I, the ruler of Thrace.[2]
Based on Demosthenes's Against Aristocrates, Python of Aenus was identified as Python of Byzantium, a Greek statesman. However, it is highly unlikely that both names are attributed to the same person.[3]
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- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 46
- ↑ Aristotle, Politics, v. 10, 1311b20-2; Plutarch, Adv. Col. 1126c
- ↑ Natoli, Anthony Francis. The Letter of Speusippus to Philip II: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary; with an Appendix on the Thirty-first Socratic Letter Attributed to Plato. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, Template:ISBN, p. 54. [Footnote] "On the basis of Demosthenes Against Aristocrates 127; 119, Python of Byzantium has been identified with Python of Aenus, the slayer of the Odrysian king Cotys I, but this is highly unlikely."
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