Phaedrus the Epicurean

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  • c. 140–70 BC, head of the school at Athens (also taught at Rome). Wrote in Greek. Scholarch of the Epicurean school before Patro; taught the young Cicero and Atticus directly, both in Rome and Athens. Cicero speaks of him afterward with genuine personal warmth even while rejecting Epicurean doctrine philosophically.

    c. 140–70 BC, head of the school at Athens (also taught at Rome). Wrote in Greek. Scholarch of the Epicurean school before Patro; taught the young Cicero and Atticus directly, both in Rome and Athens. Cicero speaks of him afterward with genuine personal warmth even while rejecting Epicurean doctrine philosophically.

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