Critolaus
Critolaus (
Life
He was born in Phaselis, a Greek colony in Lycia, c. 200 BC, and studied philosophy at Athens under Aristo of Ceos, and became one of the leaders of the Peripatetic school by his eminence as an orator, a scholar and a moralist. There has been considerable discussion as to whether he was the immediate successor of Aristo, but the evidence is confused.[2]
The great reputation which Critolaus enjoyed at Athens, as a philosopher, an orator, and a statesman, induced the Athenians to send him to
Philosophy
Critolaus seems to have paid particular attention to
Further, he defended against the
A Critolaus is mentioned by Plutarch[9] as the author of a work on Epirus, and of another entitled Phenomena; and Aulus Gellius[10] also speaks of an historical writer of this name. Whether the historian is the same as the Peripatetic philosopher, cannot be determined. A grammarian Critolaus is mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum.
Notes
- ^ Dorandi 1999, p. 50.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Plutarch, Cato Maj. 22; Aulus Gellius, vii. 14; Macrobius Saturnalia i. 5 ; Cicero, de Orat. ii. 37, 38.
- ^ Lucian, Macrobii 20; Cicero, De Oratore, i. 11.
- ^ Quintillian, ii. 15. § 23, 17. § 15; Sextus Empiricus, adv. Mathem. ii. 12; Cicero, De Finibus, v. 5.
- Tusculanae Quaestiones v. 17; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, ii.
- ^ cf. Cicero, De Finibus, v. 5 "C. imitari antiquos voluit".
- ^ Aulus Gellius, ix. 5. 6.
- ^ Plutarch, Parall. min. cc. 6, 9.
- ^ Aulus Gellius, xi. 9.
References
- Dorandi, Tiziano (1999). "Chapter 2: Chronology". In Algra, Keimpe; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780521250283.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Critolaus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 470. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the