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Ἀρκεσίλαος

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Spanish (DGE)

(Ἀρκεσίλᾱος) -ου, ὁ
• Alolema(s): dór Ἀρκεσίλᾱς Pi.P.4.2, 5.5, N.11.11
• Prosodia: [-ῐ-]
• Morfología: [jón. gen. -εω Hdt.4.159]
Arcesilao
I mit., hijo de Odiseo y Penélope Telegon.3 (invención de Eugamón, prob. para halagar al rey Arcesilao II de Cirene).
II 1jefe de los beocios en la guerra de Troya, muerto por Héctor Il.2.495, 15.329, D.S.4.67, Paus.9.39.3, Q.S.8.304.
2 padre de Melaneo, abuelo de Eurito, Pherecyd.82.
3 n. de varios reyes de Cirene del VI y V a.C.: Arcesilao I, hijo de Bato, el fundador de Cirene, Hdt.l.c.
Arcesilao II, nieto del anterior, Hdt.4.160, D.S.8.30, Plu.2.260d
Arcesilao III hijo de Bato IV, Hdt.4.162-165
Arcesilao IV olimpionica, Pi.P.ll.cc.
4 tenedio, padre de Aristágoras, vencedor en las Nemeas, Pi.N.l.c.
5 general de los catanios en el 403 a.C., D.S.14.15.
6 poeta cómico aten. del V a.C., D.L.4.45, Arcesil., I.
7 lacedemonio, padre de Licas, que venció dos veces en Olimpia, Th.5.50, 8.39, Paus.6.2.1.
8 gobernador de Alejandro en Mesopotamia (IV a.C.), D.S.18.3.
9 de Pitana, filósofo discípulo de Polemón, conocido como ὁ Ἀκαδημαϊκός (315-240 a.C.), Zeno Stoic.1.8, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.4, Str.1.2.2, 13.1.67, Plu.Arat.5, Phil.1, Plb.10.22.2, Paus.8.49.2, Ael.VH 14.26, D.L.4.28, AP 11.124 (Nicarch.), Arcesil., I.
10 padre del filósofo Estratón de Lámpsaco (III a.C.), D.L.5.63.
11 lacedemonio enviado como embajador a Roma en 183 a.C., Plb.23.6.1.
12 de Megalópolis, enviado como legado a los reyes de Egipto y Siria en 183 a.C., Plb.28.6.2, 29.25.6.

Wikipedia EN

Arcesilaus (/ˌɑːrsɛsɪˈleɪ.əs/; Greek: Ἀρκεσίλαος; 316/5–241/0 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic philosopher. He was the founder of Academic Skepticism and what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Academy in which it embraced philosophical skepticism.

Arcesilaus succeeded Crates of Athens as the sixth scholarch of the Academy around 264 BC. He did not preserve his thoughts in writing, so his opinions can only be gleaned second-hand from what is preserved by later writers.

In Athens Arcesilaus interacted with the Pyrrhonist philosopher, Timon of Phlius, whose philosophy appears to have influenced Arcesilaus to become the first Academic to adopt a position of philosophical skepticism, that is, he doubted the ability of the senses to discover truth about the world, although he may have continued to believe in the existence of truth itself. This brought in the skeptical phase of the Academy. His chief opponent was his contemporary, Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, whose dogma of katalepsis (i.e., that reality could be comprehended with certainty) Arcesilaus denied.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Ἀρκεσίλᾱος: ου, ион. Ἀρκεσίλεως, ω, дор. Ἀρκεσίλᾱς, ᾱ ὁ Аркесилай
1 предводитель беотийцев Hom.;
2 имя четырех царей Кирены: Ἀ. I царств. с 589 г. по 583 г. до н. э.; Ἀ. II - с 560 г. по 550 г. до н. э.; Ἀ. III - с 530 г. по 514 г. до н. э.; Ἀ. IV ум. в 450 г. до н. э. Her., Pind.;
3 родом из Питаны в Этолии философ-платоник IV-III вв. до н. э., основатель Средней Академии.