Potamo, of Alexandria
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- Potamon, of Alexandria
- Potamon, Alexandrinus
- Potamóne, di Alessandria
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- found: Potamo of Alexandria and the emergence of eclecticism in late Hellenistic philosophy, 2011:ECIP t.p. (Potamo of Alexandria)
- found: De Potamonis Alexandrini philosophia eclectica recentiorvm Platonicorvm disciplinae admodvm dissimili dispvtatio, 1745:cover (... Potamonis Alexandrini)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed July 22, 2022:English Potamo of Alexandria page (Potamo (or Potamon [transliteration of Greek]) of Alexandria; eclectic philosopher who lived in the Roman era; according to Diogenes Laërtius, Potamo had "not long ago" created an eclectic sect of philosophy, which would date him to sometime around the 2nd century CE; however the Suda says that Potamo lived in the age of Augustus (late 1st century BC)) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamo_of_Alexandria
- found: Treccani website, viewed July 22, 2022:Potamóne di Alessandria page (Potamóne di Alessandria; lived between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD, during the Augustan Era; head of a small eclectic school; non of his works is extant; it is known that he wrote a Compendio (Stoicheiōsis in Greek) and a commentary on Plato's REpublic and that his eclecticism contained elements of Stoicism, Peripateticism, and Platonism) - https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/potamone-di-alessandria
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- 2011-03-03: new
- 2022-07-26: revised
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