Basilides the Epicurean

Basilides (or Basileides) (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens c. 205 BC.¹ It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested.²

Notes

^ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, x.
^ Algra, K., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Page 45. Cambridge University Press, (1999).

Epicureanism

Philosophers

Greek era	Epicurus · Polyaenus · Metrodorus · Leontion · Hermarchus · Carneiscus · Colotes · Idomeneus · Polystratus · Dionysius of Lamptrai · Basilides · Apollodorus · Diogenes of Tarsus · Demetrius Lacon · Zeno of Sidon

Roman era	Amafinius · Titus Albucius · Philodemus · Lucretius · Phaedrus · Patro · Catius · Siro · Diogenes of Oenoanda

Philosophy

Epicureanism · Tetrapharmakos

Concepts

Aponia · Ataraxia · Clinamen · Eudaimonia · Hêdonê · Metakosmia

Works

On the Nature of Things

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