Metrodorus

Metrodorus in Wikipedia

Metrodorus (Greek: Μητρόδωρος, Mētrodōros, "mother's gift") is the name of numerous historical figures, including: * Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) (5th century BC) - philosopher from the school of Anaxagoras * Metrodorus of Cos (5th century BC) - Pythagorean writer * Metrodorus of Chios (4th century BC) - philosopher from the school of De...

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Metrodōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Μητρόδωρος). A name of several Greek philosophers, the most important of whom was a native of Lampsacus or Athens, an Epicurean philosopher, and the most distinguished of the disciples of Epicurus, with whom he lived on terms of the closest friendship. He died 277, in the fiftythird year of his age, seven years before Epicurus, who would have appo...

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