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Headword: Philiskos
Adler number: phi,359
Translated headword: Philiskos, Philiscus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Aigina [Myth, Place], the man who taught Alexander of Macedon his letters.[1] He himself was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic,[2] though of Stilpon[3] according to Hermippus.[4] He wrote dialogues, one of which is Kodros.
Greek Original:
Philiskos, Aiginêtês, ho didaxas grammata Alexandron ton Makedona. autos de akoustês ên tou Kunos Diogenous, kata de Hermippon Stilpônos. egrapse dialogous, hôn esti Kodros.
Notes:
See generally OCD4 1130, under Philiscus(3); and further at phi 362.
[1] Unlikely.
[2] Diogenes Laertius 6.73 calls him a "friend" of Diogenes (delta 1141, etc).
[3] sigma 1114.
[4] Hermippus of Smyrna (OCD4 s.v., no.2), the Hellenistic biographer of philosophers.
Keywords: biography; geography; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 November 2001@08:28:22.
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