Arcesilaus

Arcesilāus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Son of Battus, king of Cyrené, who was driven from his kingdom in a sedition, and died B.C. 575. The second of this name died B.C. 550 (Herod.iv. 159). A philosopher, born at Pitané, in Aeolis, the founder of what was termed the Middle Academy. The period of his birth is usually given as B.C. 316. Arcesilaüs at first applied himself to rhetoric, b...

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Arcesilaus in Wikipedia

Arcesilaus (Greek: Ἀρκεσίλαος) (316/5-241/0 BC[1]) was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Second or Middle Academy-the phase of Academic skepticism. Arcesilaus succeeded Crates as the sixth head (scholarch) of the Academy c. 264 BC.[2] He did not preserve his thoughts in writing, so his opinions can only be gleaned second-hand from what is pres...

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