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unusual facts about Sextus Empiricus


Radical skepticism

The Ancient Greek philosophers Plato, Cratylus and Pyrrho as well as Roman philosopher Sextus Empiricus are among those who expounded theories of radical skepticism.


Hermann Alexander Diels

For example, what is thought to be the introductory section of Parmenides' poem on the Ways of Truth and Opinion was quoted by Sextus Empiricus and Simplicius; in Diels-Kranz this is labeled as fragment 28B1 — i.e., chapter 28, section B, fragment 1.

Philo of Larissa

None of Philo's works are extant; our knowledge of his views is derived from Numenius, Sextus Empiricus and Cicero.

Stephan Bergler

Subsequently, in Hamburg, he assisted the major bibliographer Johann Albert Fabricius in the production of his Bibliotheca Graeca and his edition of Sextus Empiricus.


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