Dercyllides
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Dercyllides was an ancient Greek Platonist philosopher. There survive only quotations or paraphrases of his work in later writers, no complete works.
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It sits within the topics 1st-century BC Greek philosophers, Middle Platonists and Orphaned articles from September 2023.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of death
- 0100-01-01
- date of birth
- 0050-00-00
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Dercyllides was an ancient Greek Platonist philosopher. There survive only quotations or paraphrases of his work in later writers, no complete works.
He is known to have to arranged Plato's works into tetralogies, similar to the edition of Thrasyllus of Mendes, whose arrangement is still used today. Whether Dercyllides or Thrasyllus came first is not known, however.
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