Updated TimeTable of the Epicurean World

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I'm wondering if Eikadistes and Don can help clear up the succession of scholarchs for me. I was going by the link to the table posted by Cassius in #1, but then I found this list by Nate at Society of Epicurus and some of the dates don't match.

Protrarchus isn't mentioned at all in the table Cassius linked to, but does appear in SoFE list. The dates for Apollodorus are completely conflicting.

Nate, should I go with the list you posted at SoFE? It looks more complete.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, BOOK X, EPICURUS (341-271 B.C.)

Next came Polyaenus,37 son of Athenodorus, a citizen of Lampsacus, a just and kindly man, as Philodemus and his pupils affirm. Next came Epicurus's successor Hermarchus, son of Agemortus, a citizen of Mitylene, the son of a poor man and at the outset a student of rhetoric.

All these were distinguished, and with them

Polystratus, the successor of Hermarchus

he was succeeded by Dionysius

he by Basilides.

Apollodorus, known as the tyrant of the garden, who wrote over four hundred books, is also famous ;

(and the two Ptolemaei of Alexandria, the one black and the other white ; I'm assuming these were no scholarchs!)

and Zeno39 of Sidon, the pupil of Apollodorus, a voluminous author ; [26] and Demetrius,40 who was called the Laconian ; and Diogenes of Tarsus, who compiled the select lectures ; and Orion, and others whom the genuine Epicureans call Sophists.

Epicurean Scholarchs - Epicurus Wiki

I see also this list, which cites a scholar named T. Dorandi as having developed the authoritative list.

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https://wiki.epicurism.info/Epicurean_Scholarchs/

I see also this list, which cites a scholar named T. Dorandi as having developed the authoritative list.

That list appears to be the most comprehensive.

I found Dorandi's book on Google Books, and p.75 has the scholarchs... but that page isn't part of the preview! Table of contents: "4. Successione degli scolarchi"

Wasn't there a scholarch with a Roman name? Source amnesia on that one.

There are later figures, but the citation is usually something like "2nd Century" or "c. 250 AD". Too many different kinds of data make it difficult to plot well.

I suppose I should include Plotina's intervention on behalf of the school as an event.

Early AD 121 – Plotina writes to Hadrian on behalf of the Epicurean school in Athens (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

In the early year of AD 121, Pompeia Plotina, the greatly respected widow of the emperor Trajan, sent Hadrian a letter asking him to help the Epicurean school…

followinghadrian.com

Popillius Theotimus

Link to main timeline; https://time.graphics/line/852902

This will be regarded as the final version.

Edit; the main repository will be in the forum Gallery at this link.

Thank You!

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Also for future reference, you indicated this morning that you found a better "keyword" to use in searching for something like this better than "timeline." Do you recall what that was?

Well, that's the trouble; there is the Gantt Chart which is infuriatingly close to what we need, and may actually be helpful in feeding a growing table of data into a chart maker. But it has it's downsides. For one thing, the resulting chart will almost always be longer vertically than horizontally, which means a pretty massive file for the amount of data presented.

Also, every one I've seen has the labels in a column on the left rather in the chart itself.

I just don't know how to search for this;

File:Timeline of Indian history.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

without finding a lot of this:

Economy of the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Link to main timeline; https://time.graphics/line/852902

Thank you Joshua It looks brilliant.

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Please comment if you have suggestions

Cassius I don't see these people on any of the lists. I think these can be added to the table:

Leonteus of Lampsacus

Leonteus of Lampsacus - Wikipedia

Demetrius of Laconia

Demetrius Lacon - Wikipedia

Philonides of Laodicea

Philonides of Laodicea - Wikipedia

I'm not sure if this has been cited, but here's Epicurus's entry in the the Suda:

https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2404

The most pertinent section for the purposes of the timeline include:

His school continued until the first Caesar, for 227 years. In these [years] there were 14 successors.

Now, we now the Epicurean school lasted longer than "the first Caesar" because Popillius Theotimus was in charge of the Garden in 121 CE when Trajan was emperor.

But it appears the Suda is saying there were 14 "successors" to Epicurus between Epicurus's death and "the first Caesar." It looks like we still have the names of 10 of them.

The Suda was composed/compiled in the 900s CE.

Of interest, too, in the online Suda is : Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 22 October 2003@15:29:13.