Amynomachus (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
3rd century BC), son of Philocrates, from the Attic
deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ...
of Bate was, together with Timocrates son of Demetrius from Potamos, the heir of
Epicurus
Epicurus (; grc-gre, Ἐπίκουρος ; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced ...
(ca. 270 BC). Whether they were
Epicurean philosophers themselves is uncertain. Epicurus' property was given to them on condition that they give the Garden to
Hermarchus and the other Epicureans. In this way Epicurus an Athenian citizen, ensures that Hermarchus and other non-Athenian Epicureans could remain in the Garden, although they cannot inherit legally the property.
Another Amynomachus, probably the grandfather of the heir (also Amynomachus son of Philocrates) appears in an epigraphic list of Athenian
prytaneis
The ''prytaneis'' (πρυτάνεις; sing.: πρύτανις ''prytanis'') were the executives of the '' boule'' of ancient Athens.
Origins and organization
The term (like ''basileus'' or ''tyrannos'') is probably of Pre-Greek etymology (poss ...
(350 BC).
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References
;Bibliography
* (Diogenes Laertius ix. 16, 17; Cicero, ''de Finibus'', ii. 31.)
* Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics By James Warre
Page 164
2006
* The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, tr. by C.D. Yonge By Diogene
Will of Epicurus
Epicurean philosophers
3rd-century BC philosophers
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