Aeschines of Neapolis ( Gr. ; of modern

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

) was an Academic Skeptic who shared the leadership of the

Academy An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

together with

Charmadas Charmadas ( el, Χαρμάδας; also Charmides (Χαρμίδης); 168/7 – 103/91 BC) was a Greeks, Greek Academic skepticism, Academic Skeptic philosopher and a disciple of Carneades at the Platonic Academy, Academy in Athens. He was famous for ...

and Clitomachus about 110 BC, when Clitomachus was an old man.

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

says that he was a pupil and favourite (') of Melanthius of

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