Biography:Antipater of Tyre
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Antipater of Tyre (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Τύριος; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek[1] Stoic philosopher and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero.[2]
Life
Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC.[3] He is mentioned by Strabo as a "famous philosopher" from Tyre.[4] Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when Cato was a young man, and introduced him to Stoic philosophy:[5]
Having gained the intimate acquaintance of Antipater the Tyrian, the Stoic philosopher, he [Cato] devoted himself to the study, above everything, of moral and political doctrine.
Works
Little is known about his writings. From Cicero we can perhaps infer that Antipater, like Panaetius, wrote a work On Duties (Latin: de Officiis):
Antipater of Tyre, a Stoic philosopher who recently died at Athens, claims that two points were overlooked by Panaetius—the care of health and of property.
Diogenes Laërtius[6] refers to another work by him called On the Cosmos (Greek: περὶ κόσμου):
The whole world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason, and having aether for its ruling principle: so says Antipater of Tyre in the eighth book of his treatise On the Cosmos.—Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 139
Notes
- ↑ Pickering, Charles (1879) (in en). Chronological History of Plants0. Little Brown. https://books.google.com/books?id=DVb9QJtKwzcC&q=Antipater+of+Tyre+greek&pg=PA1085.
- ↑ Leonhard Schmitz claimed (William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867) Page 204 ) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.
- ↑ Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86
- ↑ Strabo, Geography, xvi. 2. 24
- ↑ Plutarch, Cato the Younger. 4.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 139, 142, 148
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