Agathobulus
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- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Alexandria
- Occupation
- philosopher
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- Demonax
- date of death
- 0200-00-00
- date of birth
- 0100-00-00
- time period
- Hellenistic period
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Agathobulus ( Agathoboulos; fl. 2nd century) of Alexandria, who lived c. 125 AD, was a Cynic philosopher and teacher of Demonax and Peregrinus Proteus.
Little is known about his life. He is listed in the Chronicle of Jerome as flourishing in the 224th Olympiad (117 to 121 CE): "Plutarch of Chaeronea, Sextus, Agathobulus and Oenomaus are considered notable philosophers."
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