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Apollonius of Chalcedon


Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) of Chalcedon was an ancient Greek Stoic who taught philosophy. He was invited by the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to come to Rome, for the purpose of instructing his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus in philosophy. Aurelius, within his Meditations, writes of Apollonius favourably.

He was also possibly from Chalcis instead of Chalcedon, or, according to Cassius Dio, from Nicomedia.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainLeonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonius". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 238. 


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