Athenodoros Cananites is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Athenodoros Cananites as Greek Stoic philosopher (c.74 BC - 7 AD).
Athenodoros Cananites was born at Tarsus in -100. His recorded nationality is Seleucid Empire.
Philosophy then was taught in person and preserved by students; what survives often reaches us through the summaries of opponents.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Seleucid Empire matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Athenodoros Cananites died in -100, aged 0. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: philosophy
