Calliphon
Sign in to saveCalliphon (or Callipho, ) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue () and bodily pleasure (, ), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the human with the beast.
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It sits within the topics 2nd-century BC Greek philosophers, Hellenistic-era philosophers in Athens and Peripatetic philosophers.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Movement
- Epicureanism
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- time period
- Hellenistic period
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Calliphon (or Callipho, ) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue () and bodily pleasure (, ), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the human with the beast.
==Notes==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calliphon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.