Basilides of Scythopolis

Basilides of Scythopolis (fl. 150 AD) was a philosopher, probably a Stoic.[1] According to the Chronicle of Jerome, he was one of the "illustrious" teachers of Marcus Aurelius.[2] Jerome calls him Scythopolitanus, which implies that he came from Scythopolis in Palestine.[1]

Basilides is not mentioned by Marcus in any of his works.[3] The same information as in Jerome also appears in George Syncellus.[1] Basilides has an entry in the medieval De vita et moribus philosophorum, which claims that he taught in Athens during the reign of Antoninus Pius (r. 138–161).[4]

There is no basis for identifying him with the hypermaterialist Basilides, also a Stoic,[3] nor with the contemporary Gnostic Basilides.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Simone Follet, "Basilide de Scythopolis", in Richard Goulet, ed., Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, Vol. II: Babélyca d'Argos à Dyscolius (CNRS Éditions, 1994), p. 90.
  2. ^ Jerome, Chron. ad Olymp. 232
  3. ^ a b Ada Bronowski, The Stoics on Lekta: All There Is to Say (Oxford University Press, 2019), p. 4.
  4. ^ Francisco Crosas López, ed., Vida y costumbres de los viejos filósofos: la traducción castellana cuatrocentista del De vita et moribus philosophorum atribuido a Walter Burley (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2002), p. 128.
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