- A
scholarch (Ancient Gr****: σχολάρχης, scholarchēs) was the head of a
school in
ancient Greece. The term is
especially remembered for its use to mean...
- an
eminent Gr****
Platonist philosopher and Plato's
third successor as
scholarch (i.e., head of the Academy) from 314/313 to 270/269 BC. A
pupil of Xenocrates...
- Rhodius; fl. c. 60 BC) was a Gr****
philosopher from
Rhodes who was also the
scholarch (head) of the
Peripatetic school. He is most
famous for
publishing a new...
- BC) of
Chalcedon was a Gr**** philosopher, mathematician, and
leader (
scholarch) of the
Platonic Academy from 339/8 to 314/3 BC. His
teachings followed...
- Aristotle's
works were not
widely read. The
names of the
first seven or
eight scholarchs (leaders) of the
Peripatetic school are
known with
varying levels of certainty...
- most
famous and the most enthusiastic.
Philo was the last
undisputed scholarch of the
Academy in
direct succession from Plato.
After his
death in 84/3...
- of philosophy, and of his
Scholarch Epicurus, by
employing literary devices like the "Broken Jar parable" (where the
Scholarch is
credited with helping...
- the
latter commence with Arcesilaus. Plato's
immediate successors as "
Scholarch" of the
Academy were
Speusippus (347–339 BC),
Xenocrates (339–314 BC)...
- the Epicureans, whom
previous skeptics had spared.[citation needed] As
scholarch (leader) of the Academy, he was one of
three philosophers sent to Rome...
-
period of the
Academy dating from
around 266 BCE, when
Arcesilaus became scholarch,
until around 90 BCE, when
Antiochus of
Ascalon rejected skepticism, although...
