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Aristocles of Messene

Aristocles of Messene

c. 65 CEc. 130 CE

Aristocles of Messene was a Greek philosopher of the Aristotelian (Peripatetic) tradition, probably active in the late 1st or 2nd century CE. He wrote a work 'On Philosophy' surveying and criticizing earlier thinkers, important fragments of which survive through quotation by the later author Eusebius and which preserve valuable information about Skeptic and other schools. His exact dates are debated.

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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Aristocles of Messene’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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