Thrasymachus of Corinth
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Thrasymachus of Corinth
, was a philosopher of the Megarian school. Little is known about him except that he was colleague and friend of Ichthyas
, and he had presumably been taught by Euclid of Megara
, the founder of the school. He was said to have been the teacher of Stilpo
.
Corinth
Corinth is a city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...
, was a philosopher of the Megarian school. Little is known about him except that he was colleague and friend of Ichthyas
Ichthyas
Ichthyas , the son of Metallus, was a Greek philosopher and a disciple and successor of Euclid of Megara in the Megarian school. He was a colleague of Thrasymachus of Corinth in the school...
, and he had presumably been taught by Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was a Greek Socratic philosopher who founded the Megarian school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BCE, and was present at his death. He held the supreme good to be one, eternal and unchangeable, and denied the existence of anything contrary to the...
, the founder of the school. He was said to have been the teacher of Stilpo
Stilpo
Stilpo was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school. He was a contemporary of Theophrastus, Diodorus Cronus, and Crates of Thebes. None of his writings survive, he was interested in logic and dialectic, and he argued that the universal is fundamentally separated from the individual and concrete...
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