Carneades
c. 214 BCE–c. 129 BCE · Athens
Greatest Academic skeptic; developed a theory of the probable (to pithanon) and, on the famous embassy to Rome (155 BCE), argued both for and against justice on successive days.
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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
Chrysippus, Diogenes Babylonius, Antipater Tarsensis, Posidonius of Apamea
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Carneades’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Chrysippus, Diogenes Babylonius, Antipater Tarsensis, Posidonius of Apamea
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Carneades’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Archimedes· 287 BCE–212 BCE
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene· 276 BCE–194 BCE
- Aristophanes of Byzantium· 257 BCE–180 BCE
- Plautus· 254 BCE–184 BCE
- Apollonius of Perga· 240 BCE–190 BCE
- Polybius· 200 BCE–118 BCE
- Terence· 195 BCE–159 BCE
- Hipparchus· 190 BCE–120 BCE
- Nicander of Colophon· 185 BCE–130 BCE
- Panaetius of Rhodes· 185 BCE–110 BCE
- Theodosius of Bithynia· 160 BCE–100 BCE
Jewish world
Scientists
Egyptian world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Emperor Wen of Han· 202 BCE–157 BCE
- Mithridates I of Parthia· 195 BCE–132 BCE
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes· 215 BCE–164 BCE
- Antiochus III the Great· 242 BCE–187 BCE
- Hannibal Barca· 247 BCE–183 BCE
- Emperor Wu of Han (Han Wudi)· 156 BCE–87 BCE
- Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang)· 256 BCE–195 BCE
- Attalus I of Pergamon· 269 BCE–197 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang· 259 BCE–210 BCE
- Mithridates VI of Pontus· 135 BCE–63 BCE
Works
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