Athenodorus
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Athenodorum Proper-name noun: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Athenodorus
(Ἀθηνόδωρος).
1. Of Aenos, a rhetorician, who lived in the time of Pollux. He had been a disciple of Aristocles and Chrestus. (Philost. Vit. Sophist. 2.14; Eudocia, p. 51.)
2. The father and brother of the poet Aratus. The latter defended Homer against the attacks of Zoilus. (Suidas, s. v. Ἄρατος.)
3. A Stoic philosopher, surnamed Cananites (Κανανίτης) from Cana in Cilicia, the birthplace of his father, whose name was Sandon. Athenodorus was himself a native of Tarsus. It is the same person probably whom Cicero (Cic. Att. 16.11) calls Athenodorus Calvus. In Rhodes he became acquainted with Posidonius, by whom probably he was instructed in the doctrines of the Stoics. He afterwards went to Apollonia, where he taught, and attracted the notice of Octavianus, whom he followed to Rome. He stood high in the favour of the emperor, and was permitted to offer him advice, which he did on some occasions with considerable freedom. (D. C. 52.36, 56.43; Zonaras, p. 544b.) Zosimus (1.6) tells us, that the government of Augustus became milder in consequence of his attending to the advice of Athenodorus. The young Claudius was placed under his instruction. (Suet. Cl. 4.) In his old age he returned to Tarsus, which was at that time misgoverned by Boethus, a favourite of Antonius. Athenodorus procured his expulsion and that of his party, and restored order. Through his influence with Augustus, he procured for his native city a remission of the vectigalia. He died at the age of eighty-two, and his memory was honoured by an annual festival and sacrifice. (Strab. xiv. p.674; Lucian, Macrob. 21; Cic. Fam. 3.7, ad Att. 16.14.) He was the author of a work against the Categories of Aristotle (Porphyr. in Categ. p. 21a.; Simplic. Categ. p. 15b.; Stobaeus, Serm. 33) attributed by some to Athenodorus Cordylio; of an account of Tarsus (Steph. Ἀγχιάλη); of a work addressed to Octavia (Plut. Puplic. 17); of one περὶ σπουδῆς καὶ ραιδείας (Athen. 12.519); of a work called Περίπατοι (D. L. 3.3, 5.36), and of some others. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 543; Hoffinann, Dissert. de Athen. Tarsensi, Lips. 1732; Sevin, in the Mémoires de l'Acad. des Inscr. xix. p. 77.)
4. Surnamed Cordylio (Κορδυλίων), a Stoic philosopher, born at Tarsus. He was the keeper of the library at Pergamus, and in his anxiety to preserve the doctrines of his sect in their original purity, used to cut out from the works of the Stoic writers such parts as appeared to him erroneous or inconsistent. He removed from Pergamus to Rome, and lived with M. Cato, at whose house he died. (Strab. xiv. p.674; D. L. 7.34; Plut. Cat. Mi. 10; Senec. de Tranquill. Animi, 100.3, Ep. 10.4.)
5. An Eretrian, the author of a work entitled ὑπομνηματα. (Photius, Phot. Bibl. 119.)
6. Of Rhodes, a rhetorician spoken of by Quintilian. (2.17.)
7. Of Soli, a disciple of Zenon. (D. L. 7.38, 121.) He maintained, in opposition to the other Stoics, that all offences were not equal.
8. Of Tarsus. [See Nos. 3 and 4.]
9. Of Teos, a player on the cithara, was one of the performers who assisted at the festivities celebrated at Susa in B. C. 324, on the occasion of the marriage of Alexander with Statira. There was also a tragedian of the same name, whose services were called into requisition on the same occasion. (Athen. 12.538.) [C.P.M]
(Ἀθηνόδωρος), a Greek physician in the first century after Christ or the beginning of the second. He was probably a contemporary of Plutarch, by whom the first book of his treatise On Epidemic Diseases, Ἐπιδήμια, is quoted. (Sympos. 8.9.1.) [W.A.G]
(Ἀθηνόδωρος).
1. A statuary, a native of Cleitor in Arcadia, executed statues of Zeus and Apollo, which were dedicated by the Lacedaemonians at Delphi after the battle of Aegos-potami. He was also famed for his statues of distinguished women. He was a pupil of the elder Polycletus, and flourished at the end of the fifth century B. C. (Paus. 10.9.8; Plin. Nat. 34.19, init., and § 26.)
2. A sculptor, the son and pupil of Agesander of Rhodes, whom he assisted in executing the group of Laocoon. [Agesander.] [C.P.M]
(Ἀθηνόδωρος). (1) A Rhodian sculptor associated with Agesander and Polydorus in producing the famous group of Laocoön (q.v.).
(2) Of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher, surnamed Cordylio, who was keeper of the library at Pergamus, and afterwards removed to Rome, where he lived with M. Cato, at whose house he died.
(3) Of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher, surnamed Cananites, from Cana, in Cilicia, the birthplace of his father. He taught at Apollonia in Epirus, where the young Octavius (subsequently the emperor Augustus) was one of his disciples. He accompanied the latter to Rome, and became one of his intimate friends. On one occasion he is said to have advised the emperor always to repeat the letters of the Greek alphabet before giving way to any impulse of anger.
- sculptor: Paus. 10.9.8