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SIDON (Ancient city) LEBANON
Boethus (Boethos), surnamed Sidonius, was born at Sidon in Phoenicia. As he is
called a disciple of the Peripatetic Andronicus of Rhodes (Ammon. Herm. Comment.
in Aristot. Categ., ed. Ald. 1546), he must have travelled at an early age to
Rome and Athens, in which cities Andronicus is known to have taught. Strabo (xvi.),
who mentions him and his brother Diodotus among the celebrated persons of Sidon,
speaks of him at the same time as his own teacher in the Peripatetic philosophy.
Among his works, all of which are now lost, there was one on the nature of the
soul, and also a commentary on Aristotle's Categories, which is mentioned by Ammonius
in his commentary on the same work of Aristotle. Ammonius quotes also an opinion
of Boethus concening the study of the works of Aristotle, viz. that the student
should begin with the Physics (apo tes psusikes), whereas Andronicus had maintained,
that the beginning should be made apo tes logikes, hetis peri ten apodeixin ginetai.
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec iii.; Schneider, Epimetrum III. ad Aristot. Hist. Anim.;
Buhle, Aristot. Opera, i.; Stahr, Aristotelia, ii.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Boethus, (Boethos). A Stoic philosopher who perhaps lived even before the time of Chrysippus, and was the author of several works. One of them was entitled periphuseos, from which Diogenes Laertius (vii. 148) quotes his opinion about the essence of God; another was called periheimarmenes, of which the same writer (vii. 149) mentions the eleventh book. This latter work is, in all probability the one to which Cicero refers in his treatise on Divination (i. 8, ii. 21). Philo (de Mund. incorrupt. ii., ed. Mangey) mentions him together with Posidonius, and it is not improbable that this Boethus is the one mentioned by Plutarch. (De Placit. Philos. iii. 2.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
An Epicurean philosopher, a native of Sidon, and a contemporary of Cicero, who heard him when at Athens. He was sometimes termed Coryphaeus Epicureorum. He seems to have been noted for the disrespectful terms in which he spoke of other philosophers, calling, for instance, Socrates "the Attic buffoon." He was a disciple of Apollodorus, and is described as a clear-headed thinker and perspicacious expounder of his views.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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Diodotus. A Peripatetic philosopher, of Sidon, is mentioned only by Strabo (xvi.).
Dorotheus. Of Sidon, was the author of astrological poems (apotelesmata), of which
a few fragments are still extant. They are collected in Iriarte's Catalog. Cod.
MSS. Biblioth. Mal. i, and in Cramer's Anecdota, iii. Manilius, among the Romans,
and several Arab writers on astrology, have made considerable use of these Apotelesmata.
Some critics are inclined to consider Dorotheus of Sidon as identical with the
Chaldaean.
Antipater (Antipatros), of Sidon, the author of several epigrams in the Greek Anthology, appears, from a passage of Cicero (de Orat. iii. 50), to have been contemporary with Q. Catullus (consul B. C. 102), and with Crassus (quaestor in Macedonia B. C. 106). The many minute references made to him by Meleager, who also wrote his epitaph, would seem to shew that Antipater was an elder contemporary of this poet, who is known to have flourished in the 170th Olympiad. From these circumstances he may be placed at B. C. 108-100. He lived to a great age. (Plin. vii. 52 ; Cic. de Fat. 3; Val. Max. i. 8.16)
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