Basilides the Epicurean

Basilides (or Basileides, Greek: Βασιλείδης; c. 250-c. 175 BC^[1]) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai^[2] as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens c. 205 BC. It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested.^[3]

Notes

1. Dorandi 1999, p. 52.
2. Laërtius 1925, § 25.
3. Dorandi 1999, p. 45.

References

• Dorandi, Tiziano (1999). "Chapter 2: Chronology". In Algra, Keimpe; et al. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780521250283.
•  Laërtius, Diogenes (1925). "Epicurus". Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 2:10. Translated by Hicks, Robert Drew (Two volume ed.). Loeb Classical Library. § 25.