Nicias ( el, Νικίας) of

Nicaea Nicaea, also known as Nicea or Nikaia (; ; grc-gre, Νίκαια, ) was an ancient Greek city in Bithynia, where located in northwestern Anatolia and is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seve ...

, was a

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and

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of ancient

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. Nothing is known about his life, he may have lived in the 1st century BC or AD. He is repeatedly referred to by

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

. His principal work seems to have been a '' Successions'' ( el, Διαδοχαί), a history of the various schools of philosophy. Athenaeus also mentions a work ''On the Philosophers'' ( el, Περὶ τῶν Φιλοσοφῶν), A third work, a ''History of Arcadia'' ( el, Ἀρκαδικά) is also referred to,Athenaeus, xiii. 609 but whether it is by this Nicias is unclear.

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