Academic Platonists 400-80 BCE (list)

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Where possible, the name of each philosopher has been linked to their Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.

Old Academy | Schools indebted to the Old Academy | Middle Academy | New Academy

This list of scholarchs ends with Philo of Larissa, although his student and rival Antiochus of Ascalon, usually treated as the first of the "Middle Platonists", could with as much or more justice be numbered among the members of the Academy proper.

Cicero, although a student of both Philo and Antiochus, and himself an eclectic, declared his allegiance to the more skeptical Academy, and is therefore the last entry.

Old Academy
Plato, 1st scholarch (school head) 388–348 BCE
Speusippus, 2nd scholarch 348–339 BCE
Xenocrates, 3rd scholarch 339–314 BCE
Polemo, 4th scholarch 314–276 BCE
Crates, 5th scholarch c. 276 - c. 266 BCE

Aristotle of Stagira
→ Peripatetics
Heraclides of Pontus
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Hermodorus of Syracuse
Philip of Opus
Crantor of Soli
Hestiaeus of Perinthus
Anonymous fragments in Aristotle and Theophrastus
Platonic Distinctions in Diogenes Laertius
Pseudo-Platonic dialogues, Definitions, and Letters

Mathematicians
Theaetetus
Menaechmus
Dinostratus
Theudius
Athenaeus
Hermotimus
Amphinomus

Schools indebted to the Old Academy
→ Peripatetics 335-100 BCE
[under constr.] Stoics
→ Greek Mathematics

Middle Academy
Arcesilaus of Pitane, 6th scholarch c. 266–241 BCE
Lacydes of Cyrene, 7th scholarch 241–215 BCE
Evander* and Telecles*, 8th/9th scholarchs simultaneously 205 – c. 165 BCE
Hegesinus*, 10th scholarch c. 160 BCE
Pseudo-Platonic dialogues (Demodocus ch. II-IV, Alcyon, Axiochus)

(*Nothing is known about the teachings of these philosophers.)

New Academy
Carneades, 11th scholarch c. 160-137 BCE
Carneades "the Younger", 12th scholarch 137-131 BCE
Crates of Tarsus, 13th scholarch 131-129 BCE
Clitomachus, 14th scholarch 129 – c. 110 BC
Philo of Larissa, 15th scholarch c. 110–84 BCE

[under constr.] Middle Platonists

Students of Carneades
Metrodorus of Stratonicea
Charmadas
Hagnon of Tarsus
Melanthius of Rhodes

Student of Philo
Cicero

Bibliography
John Dillon, "The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)", 2005
Tiziano Dorandi, "Chronology", in: The Cambridge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, pp. 31-54

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