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ATHENODORUS , the name of two Stoic philosophers of the 1st See also:century B.C., who have frequently been confounded. I. ATHENODORUS CANANITES (C. 74 B.C.–A.D. 7), SO called from his birthplace Canana near See also:Tarsus (not See also:Cana in Mc-is. nor Canna in See also:Lycaonia), was the son of one Sandon, whose name indicates Tarsian descent, not Jewish as many have held. He was a See also:personal friend of See also:Strabo, from whom we derive our know-ledge of his See also:life. He taught the See also:young Octavian (afterwards See also:Augustus) at See also:Apollonia, and was a See also:pupil of See also:Posidonius at See also:Rhodes. Subsequently he appears to have travelled in the See also:East (See also:Petra and See also:Egypt) and to have made himself famous by lecturing in the See also:great cities of the Mediterranean. See also:Writing in 50 B.C., See also:Cicero speaks of him with the highest respect (cf. Ep. ad. AU., xvi. II. 4, 14. 4), a fact which enables us to See also:fix the date of his See also:birth as not later than about 74. His See also:influence.over Augustus was strong and lasting. He followed him to See also:Rome in 44, and is said to have criticized him with the utmost candour, bidding him repeat the letters of the See also:alphabet before acting on an angry impulse. In later years he was allowed by Augustus to return to Tarsus in See also:order to remodel the constitution of the See also:city after the degenerate See also:democracy which had misgoverned it under See also:Boethus. He succeeded (c. 15–Io B.C.) in setting up a timocratic See also:oligarchy in the imperial See also:interest (see TARSUS). See also:Sir W. M. See also:Ramsay is inclined to attribute to the influence of Athenodorus the striking resemblances which can be established between See also:Seneca and See also:Paul, the latter of whom must certainly have been acquainted with his teachings. According to See also:Eusebius and Strabo he was a learned scientist for his See also:day, and some attribute to him a See also:history of Tarsus. He helped Cicero in the See also:composition of the De Officiis. His See also:works are not certainly known, and none are extant. (See Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Expositor, See also:September 1906, pp. 268 ff.)
2. ATHENODORUS CORDYLION, also of Tarsus, was keeper of the library at See also:Pergamum, and was an old See also:man in 47 B.C. In his See also:enthusiasm for Stoicism he used to cut out from Stoic writings passages which seemed to him unsatisfactory. He also settled in Rome, where he died in the See also:house of the younger See also:Cato.
Among others of the name may be mentioned (3) ATHENODORUS OF TEOS, who played the See also:cithara at the See also:wedding of See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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