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• Anaxarchus

  Anaxarchus ( c.380- c.330 BC) The Greek philosopher Anaxarchus of Abdera was a friend of Alexander the Great, teacher and friend of Pyrrho, and heroic victim of a tyrant. More a court philosopher than a school one, and anambiguous personality, he seems to have mixed a highly original philosophical cocktail: a primarily ethical, cynicallyinclined outlook, combined with certain elements of Democritean ethics, epistemology and physics. His onlyattested work was a treatise On Kingship, his d...