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Bryson of Achaea

Bryson of Achaea (or Bryson the Achaean; Greek: Βρύσων ὁ Ἀχαιός Vryson o Acheos, gen.: Βρύσωνος Vrysonos; fl. 330 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher.

Very little information is known about him. He was said to have been a pupil of Stilpo[1] and Clinomachus,[2] which would mean that he was a philosopher of the Megarian school. He was said to have taught Crates the Cynic,[3][4] Pyrrho the Skeptic,[1][2] and Theodorus the Atheist.[5] Diogenes Laërtius includes him among a list of philosophers who left no writings.[6]

He is probably not the same person as Bryson of Heraclea,[7] the sophist and mathematician who seems to have lived in the time of Socrates. The Suda, in its entry on Socrates,[8] may be confusing the two Brysons when it refers to Bryson of Heraclea:

Bryson of Heraclea introduced eristic dialectic after Euclides,[9] whereas Clinomachus augmented it, and whereas many came on account of it, it came to an end with Zeno of Citium, for he gave it the name Stoic, after its location, this having occurred in the 105th Olympiad;[10] but some [say that] Bryson was a student not of Socrates but of Euclides

Notes

  1. ^ a b Diogenes Laërtius, ix. 61. Diogenes Laërtius literally says "Pyrrho was a pupil of Bryson the son of Stilpo." Bryson is unlikely to have been the son of Stilpo. Laërtius may mean that Bryson was a pupil of Stilpo. This line is sometimes emended to "Pyrrho was a pupil of Bryson or Stilpo."
  2. ^ a b Suda, Pyrrhon
  3. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 85
  4. ^ Suda, Krates
  5. ^ Suda, Theodoros
  6. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, i. 16
  7. ^ "Not the same as Bryson of Heracleia, whom we know from the Platonic Epistles, from Aristotle, and from Athenaeus (xi. p. 508)." Robert Drew Hicks, Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, page 88. Loeb Classical Library.
  8. ^ Suda, Sokrates
  9. ^ Cf. Diogenes Laërtius, ii. 106: "his [Euclid's] followers were called Megarians after him, then Eristics, and at a later date Dialecticians"
  10. ^ 360-357 BC, before Zeno was born, but possibly when Bryson was active.
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