Sotion

2nd-century BC Greek writer

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Also known as Sotion of Alexandria

Born: 3rd century BCE
Died: 170 BCE
Birthplace: Alexandria
Occupation: writer
, philosopher
, historian
+1 more
Languages spoken, written or signed: Ancient Greek

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Sotion of Alexandria was a Greek doxographer and biographer, and an important source for Diogenes Laërtius. None of his works survive; they are known only indirectly. His principal work, the Διαδοχή or Διαδοχαί, was one of the first history books to have organized philosophers into schools of successive influence: e.g., the so-called Ionian School of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. It is quoted very frequently by Diogenes Laërtius, and Athenaeus. Sotion's Successions likely consisted of 23 books, and at least partly drew on the doxography of Theophrastus. The Successions was influential enough to be abridged by Heraclides Lembus in the mid-2nd century BC, and works by the same title were subsequently written by Sosicrates of Rhodes and Antisthenes of Rhodes.

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Sex or gender: male
Time period: Hellenistic period
Name in native language: Σωτίων
Field of work: philosophy
Writing language: Ancient Greek
Different from: Sotion
Copyright status as a creator: copyrights on works have expired applies to jurisdiction: worldwide
Significant place: Alexandria
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1.Stated in Deipnosophistae
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