Philonides of Laodicea

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c. 200–after 129 BC. Born in Laodicea-on-Sea (Syria), active at the Seleucid court in Antioch. Wrote in Greek. A mathematician as well as an Epicurean, he became the friend and philosophical advisor of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and is the figure principally responsible for Epicureanism's establishment as the effective court philosophy at Antioch.

c. 200–after 129 BC. Born in Laodicea-on-Sea (Syria), active at the Seleucid court in Antioch. Wrote in Greek. A mathematician as well as an Epicurean, he became the friend and philosophical advisor of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and is the figure principally responsible for Epicureanism's establishment as the effective court philosophy at Antioch.

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