Antipater of Tyre (; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher and a friend of Cato the Younger and Cicero.Leonhard Schmitz claimed (William Smith, ) that the Antipater of Tyre who was the friend of Cato, was a different, earlier Antipater of Tyre to the one mentioned by Cicero. Schmitz did not explain why; he may have thought (incorrectly) that a teacher of Cato could not have lived down to 45 BC.
Life Antipater lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero, in speaking of him, says, that he died "recently at Athens", which must mean shortly before 45 BC.Cicero, de Officiis, ii. 86 He is mentioned by Strabo as a "famous philosopher" from Tyre.Strabo, Geography, xvi. 2. 24 Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when Cato was a young man, and introduced him to Stoic philosophy:Plutarch, Cato the Younger. 4.
Works Little is known about his writings. From Cicero we can perhaps infer that Antipater, like Panaetius, wrote a work On Duties ():
Diogenes LaërtiusDiogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 139, 142, 148 refers to another work by him called On the Cosmos ():
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