Charmadas

Charmadas (Greek: Χαρμάδας; or Charmides (Χαρμίδης); 168/7 – 103/91 BC[1]) was an Academic philosopher and a disciple of Carneades at the Academy in Athens. He was a pupil of Carneades for seven years (145-138) and later he led his own school in the Ptolemaion, a gymnasium in Athens. He seems to have spent some time in Alexandria, before he went to Athens around 145 B.C.[2] He was an excellent rhetorician and famous for his outstanding memory. Like Philo of Larissa he seems to have pursued a more moderate scepticism.[3] Lucius Licinius Crassus and Marcus Antonius (orator) were his most prominent pupils. Furthermore, Philodemus preserverd us the names of other pupils: Diodorus of Adramyttion, Apollodor of Tarsus, Heliodorus of Mallos, Phanostratus of Tralles and a certain Apollonius. [4]

Notes

  1. Dorandi 1999, p. 48.
  2. Fleischer 2014, pp. 66-67.
  3. Lévy 2005, pp. 62–68; Brittain 2001, p. 54, 213f., 312; Tarrant 1985, p. 37.
  4. For the list of pupils preserved by Philodemus see Fleischer 2015, pp. 49-53.

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