Boethos from Marathon

Boethos of Marathon ( Greek Βόηθος Boethos ; † 120 / .. 119 BC ) was an ancient Greek philosopher in the age of Hellenism . He was a member of the Platonic Academy in Athens .

Boethos came from Marathon in Attica . He was the son of an otherwise unknown Hermagoras and roughly contemporary of the 214/213 BC. Born philosopher Carneades of Cyrene . His teachers were Ariston and Eubulus; Eubulus was a student of Lakydes . Boethos is said to have become the head of a school. He died during the archonate of Eumachus, that is, 120/119 BC. BC, in the month of Thargelion. So he must have gotten very old. Nothing is known about his teaching. The only source of information about him is a report from the Chronicle of Apollodorus , which is in the Academica (Academicorum index) of Philodemos is handed down.

literature

Tiziano Dorandi : Boethos de Marathon. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-271-05195-9 , p. 123
Kilian Fleischer: The characterization of the Boethos of Marathon (PHerc. 1021, coll. 28,38-29,3). In: Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 12, 2015, pp. 27–30
Woldemar Görler : The academy between Karneades and Philon . In: Hellmut Flashar (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity , Vol. 4: The Hellenistic Philosophy , 2nd half volume, Schwabe, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-7965-0930-4 , pp. 898-914, here: 910

Remarks

↑ Probably not Hermagoras of Temnos; see Dieter Matthes: Hermagoras von Temnos 1904–1955. In: Lustrum 3, 1958, pp. 58–214, here: p. 71 note 1.
^ Harold B. Mattingly : Some Problems in Second Century Attic Prosopography . In: Historia 20, 1971, pp. 26–46, here: 44.
↑ Tiziano Dorandi (ed.): Filodemo: Storia dei filosofi [.] Platone e l'Academia (PHerc. 1021 e 164) , Napoli 1991, pp. 71 f., 163, 166; Tiziano Dorandi: La "Cronologia" di Apollodoro nel PHerc. 1021 , Napoli 1982, pp. 15, 23 f., 42 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Boethos from Marathon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Greek philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	120 BC BC or 119 BC Chr.

[1] Probably not Hermagoras of Temnos; see Dieter Matthes: Hermagoras von Temnos 1904–1955. In: Lustrum 3, 1958, pp. 58–214, here: p. 71 note 1.

[2] Harold B. Mattingly : Some Problems in Second Century Attic Prosopography . In: Historia 20, 1971, pp. 26–46, here: 44.

[3] Tiziano Dorandi (ed.): Filodemo: Storia dei filosofi [.] Platone e l'Academia (PHerc. 1021 e 164) , Napoli 1991, pp. 71 f., 163, 166; Tiziano Dorandi: La "Cronologia" di Apollodoro nel PHerc. 1021 , Napoli 1982, pp. 15, 23 f., 42 f.