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Introduction: Philo of Larissa
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Philo was the last sceptical leader of the Platonic Academy. The long tradition of Academic scepticism, initiated by Arcesilaos, confirmed by Carneades and Clitomachus, and inherited by Philo (scholarch from no to c.83 BC), was broken by his successor, Antiochus of Ascalon. Antiochus’ reformed ‘Old Academy’ was continued by his brother Aristus; thereafter we hear of no further scholarch, and it is probable that the Platonic school ceased to exist as an institution. After Philo’s death there were self-identified sceptical ‘Academics’ of considerable influence (among them, his student Cicero, and the ‘sophist’ Favorinus), but no enduring institution.
Title: Introduction: Philo of Larissa
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Abstract
Philo was the last sceptical leader of the Platonic Academy.
The long tradition of Academic scepticism, initiated by Arcesilaos, confirmed by Carneades and Clitomachus, and inherited by Philo (scholarch from no to c.
83 BC), was broken by his successor, Antiochus of Ascalon.
Antiochus’ reformed ‘Old Academy’ was continued by his brother Aristus; thereafter we hear of no further scholarch, and it is probable that the Platonic school ceased to exist as an institution.
After Philo’s death there were self-identified sceptical ‘Academics’ of considerable influence (among them, his student Cicero, and the ‘sophist’ Favorinus), but no enduring institution.
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