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)
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
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 and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Carneades’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works
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