Antipater of Tyre

Ancient Greek philosopher

Antipater of Tyre (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Τύριος; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek[1] Stoic philosopher and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero.[2]

## Life

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Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC.[3] He is mentioned by Strabo as a "famous philosopher" from Tyre.[4] Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when Cato was a young man, and introduced him to Stoic philosophy:[5]

> Having gained the intimate acquaintance of Antipater the Tyrian, the Stoic philosopher, he [Cato] devoted himself to the study, above everything, of moral and political doctrine.

## Works

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Little is known about his writings. From Cicero we can perhaps infer that Antipater, like Panaetius, wrote a work On Duties (Latin: de Officiis):

> Antipater of Tyre, a Stoic philosopher who recently died at Athens, claims that two points were overlooked by Panaetius—the care of health and of property.

> — Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86

Diogenes Laërtius[6] refers to another work by him called On the Cosmos (Greek: περὶ κόσμου):

> The whole world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason, and having aether for its ruling principle: so says Antipater of Tyre in the eighth book of his treatise On the Cosmos.

> — Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 139

## Notes

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1. ^ Pickering, Charles (1879). Chronological History of Plants0. Little Brown.
2. ^ Leonhard Schmitz claimed (William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867) Page 204[usurped]) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.
3. ^ Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86
4. ^ Strabo, Geography, xvi. 2. 24
5. ^ Plutarch, Cato the Younger. 4.
6. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 139, 142, 148

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| Scholarchs of the Stoa|

* Zeno of Citium
* Cleanthes
* Chrysippus
* Zeno of Tarsus
* Diogenes of Babylon
* Antipater of Tarsus
* Panaetius

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* Aristo of Chios
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* Dardanus
* Mnesarchus
* Dionysius of Cyrene
* Hecato of Rhodes
* Diotimus the Stoic
* Posidonius
* Geminus
* Diodotus
* Antipater of Tyre
* Apollonides
* Athenodorus Cananites

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* Publius Rutilius Rufus
* Quintus Lucilius Balbus
* Cato the Younger
* Quintus Sextius
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* Seneca
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* Helvidius Priscus
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* Musonius Rufus
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Works|

* On Passions (Chrysippus)
* Paradoxa Stoicorum
* Letters to Lucilius (Seneca)
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* De Vita Beata
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* Enchiridion of Epictetus
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