person
Aristus of Ascalon
Aristus
also: Aristus
Academic philosopher, brother and successor of Antiochus of Ascalon as head of the Old Academy; Cicero's host at Athens in 51 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 5.10 §5 if any is in Aristus, with whom I was staying
Aristus of Ascalon was the head of the Academy at Athens and brother and successor of Antiochus, under whom Cicero had once studied; Cicero lodged with him but jokes that the philosophy on offer there was uneven.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.8 his brother Aristus
Aristus of Ascalon was the brother and successor of Antiochus as head of the Academy at Athens, and a teacher of Brutus. Cicero appeals to Brutus's acquaintance with Aristus to vouch for the accuracy of Piso's summary.