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Basilides (or Basileides) (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Dionysius of Lamptrai as the head of the Epicurean school at Athens c. 205 BC.[1] It is not certain who succeeded Basilides: Apollodorus is the next Epicurean leader we can be certain about, but there may have been at least one intermediate leader, and the name Thespis has been suggested.[2]
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, x.
- ^ Algra, K., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Page 45. Cambridge University Press, (1999).
