Aeschines of Neapolis

For other people named Aeschines, see Aeschines (disambiguation).

Aeschines of Neapolis (Gr. Αἰσχίνης ὁ Νεαπολίτης; of modern Naples) was an Academic Skeptic who shared the leadership of the Academy at Athens together with Charmadas and Clitomachus about 110 BC, when Clitomachus was an old man.[1][2] Diogenes Laërtius says that he was a pupil and favourite (paidika) of Melanthius of Rhodes.[3]

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Aeschines (4)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 40
  2. ^ Cicero, De Oratore i. 11
  3. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, ii. 64