person
Polyaenus of Lampsacus
Polyaenus
also: Polyaeno, Polyaenus
A mathematician of Lampsacus who became one of Epicurus's earliest and closest associates, abandoning geometry for the Epicurean school. Cicero remarks that Epicurus would have rejected the doctrine of indivisible minima had he learned geometry from Polyaenus instead of trying to un-teach it to him.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.20 his friend Polyaenus
Polyaenus of Lampsacus was a mathematician who joined Epicurus's circle. Cicero gibes that Epicurus would not have believed in indivisible minima had he learned geometry from Polyaenus rather than trying to un-teach it.