Basilides of Scythopolis ( AD) was a philosopher, probably a Stoic.Simone Follet, "Basilide de Scythopolis", in Richard Goulet, ed., Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, Vol. II: Babélyca d'Argos à Dyscolius (CNRS Éditions, 1994), p. 90. According to the Chronicle of Jerome, he was one of the "illustrious" teachers of Marcus Aurelius.Jerome, Chron. ad Olymp. 232 Jerome calls him , which implies that he came from Scythopolis in Palestine.
Basilides is not mentioned by Marcus in any of his works.Ada Bronowski, The Stoics on Lekta: All There Is to Say (Oxford University Press, 2019), p. 4. The same information as in Jerome also appears in George Syncellus. Basilides has an entry in the medieval De vita et moribus philosophorum, which claims that he taught in Athens during the reign of Antoninus Pius ().Francisco Crosas López, ed., Vida y costumbres de los viejos filósofos: la traducción castellana cuatrocentista del De vita et moribus philosophorum atribuido a Walter Burley (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2002), p. 128.
There is no basis for identifying him with the hypermaterialist Basilides, also a Stoic, nor with the contemporary Gnostic Basilides.
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