Satyrus the Peripatetic
Satyrus of Callatis was a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian, whose biographies of famous people are frequently referred to by Diogenes Laërtius and Athenaeus. He came from Callatis Pontica, as was learned from a Herculaneum papyrus. He lived earlier than the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (181–146 BC) when his Lives were epitomized by Heraclides Lembus, probably during the 3rd century BC. Athenaeus frequently refers to him as a Peripatetic, but his connection to the Peripatetic school is otherwise unknown.
Also recorded as Satyros of Kallatis
Satyrus the Peripatetic
- Born
- 300 · Mangalia.
- Died
- 260 · Alexandria.
- Occupation
- philosopher · writer · historian · biographer
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Satyrus of Callatis was a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian, whose biographies of famous people are frequently referred to by Diogenes Laërtius and Athenaeus. He came from Callatis Pontica, as was learned from a Herculaneum papyrus. He lived earlier than the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (181–146 BC) when his Lives were epitomized by Heraclides Lembus, probably during the 3rd century BC. Athenaeus frequently refers to him as a Peripatetic, but his connection to the Peripatetic school is otherwise unknown.
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Born at Mangalia in 300, died in Alexandria in 260.
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- 1.PHerc. 558
- 2.OCD, q.v. Satyrus
- 3.Athenaeus, vi. 248; xii. 541; xiii. 556
- 4.A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchi Papyri, vol. 9 (1912), no. 1176, pp. 124–182
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