Demetrius of Phaleron
c. 350 BCE–c. 280 BCE · Athens
Demetrius of Phaleron was an Athenian statesman, orator, and philosopher of the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE, associated with Aristotle's Peripatetic school. He governed Athens for about a decade under Macedonian backing, then went to Egypt, where tradition links him to the early planning of the Library of Alexandria. He was a prolific writer on history, rhetoric, and politics, though his works survive only in fragments.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
In Athens at the same time
Isocrates, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Demetrius of Phaleron’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Isocrates, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Demades, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Demetrius of Phaleron’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works
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