Arcesilaus
c. 316 BCE–c. 241 BCE · Athens
Turned Plato's Academy skeptical; revived Socratic questioning and suspension of judgment (epoche) against Stoic claims to certainty.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Heraclides Ponticus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Arcesilaus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Arcesilaus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Crates of Thebes· 365 BCE–285 BCE
- Pyrrho· 360 BCE–270 BCE
- Dicaearchus of Messana· 360 BCE–285 BCE
- Hecataeus of Abdera· 360 BCE–290 BCE
- Strato of Lampsacus· 335 BCE–269 BCE
- Herophilus of Chalcedon· 335 BCE–280 BCE
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus· 331 BCE–278 BCE
- Lycophron· 320 BCE–250 BCE
- Aratus Solensis· 315 BCE–240 BCE
- Callimachus· 310 BCE–240 BCE
- Aristarchus of Samos· 310 BCE–230 BCE
- Erasistratus of Ceos· 304 BCE–250 BCE
- Theocritus· 300 BCE–260 BCE
- Apollonius Rhodius· 295 BCE–215 BCE
- Archimedes· 287 BCE–212 BCE
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene· 276 BCE–194 BCE
- Aristophanes of Byzantium· 257 BCE–180 BCE
- Plautus· 254 BCE–184 BCE
Scientists
Jewish world
Mesopotamian world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Ashoka the Great· 304 BCE–232 BCE
- Pyrrhus of Epirus· 319 BCE–272 BCE
- Bindusara· –273 BCE
- Demetrius I Poliorcetes· 337 BCE–283 BCE
- Seleucus I Nicator· 358 BCE–281 BCE
- Lysimachus· 360 BCE–281 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang· 259 BCE–210 BCE
- Attalus I of Pergamon· 269 BCE–197 BCE
- Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang)· 256 BCE–195 BCE
- Chandragupta Maurya· –297 BCE
- Hannibal Barca· 247 BCE–183 BCE
Works
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