Hegesinus of

Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum ( or ; grc-gre, Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. It is located from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on th ...

( grc-gre, Ἡγησίνους, Hēgēsínous), was an Academic Skeptic philosopher from

. He was the successor of

Evander Evander is a masculine given name. It is an anglicization of the Greek name Εὔανδρος (lit. "good man", Latinized ''Evandrus''). It has also been adopted as an anglicization of the Gaelic name Iomhar (the Gaelic variant of the name Ivor ...

and the immediate predecessor of

Carneades Carneades (; el, Καρνεάδης, ''Karneadēs'', "of Carnea"; 214/3–129/8 BC) was a Greek philosopher and perhaps the most prominent head of the Skeptical Academy in ancient Greece. He was born in Cyrene. By the year 159 BC, he had beg ...

as the leader (

scholarch A scholarch ( grc, σχολάρχης, ''scholarchēs'') was the head of a school in ancient Greece. The term is especially remembered for its use to mean the heads of schools of philosophy, such as the Platonic Academy in ancient Athens. Its fir ...

) of the

Platonic Academy The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by Plato in c. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years (367–347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic p ...

, and served for a period around 160 BC. Diogenes Laërtius, '' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'', iv. 60;

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

, ''Academica'', ii. 6. Nothing else is known about him.

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References

*K. Algra, J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld, M. Schofield, ''The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy''. Pages 32–33. Cambridge University Press. (2005). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hegesinus of Pergamon Academic philosophers Hellenistic-era philosophers from Anatolia People from Pergamon 2nd-century BC Greek people 2nd-century BC philosophers Academic skepticism