Nestor of Tarsus (Ancient Greek: Νέστωρ) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Stoic school of thought. He was from Tarsus in Cilikia.
Nestor was active at a Stoic school in Athens.[1] Otherwise, little is known about his life. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius contained his biography in Book VII, but that portion of a book has disappeared; only the mention of his name in the table of contents remains.[2] Nestor was a contemporary of Panaetius, either his disciple or a fellow student. He is sometimes mixed with another Nestor of Tarsos, who is said to have been a teacher of Tiberius, but the latter lived in the first century AD, making him not a contemporary.[3]
References
edit- ^ Curnow, Trevor. (2006). The philosophers of the ancient world : an A to Z guide. London: Duckworth. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-84966-771-5. OCLC 842263903.
- ^ Posidonius (2004). Posidonius: Volume 3, The Translation of the Fragments. Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-0-521-60441-3.
- ^ Zeller, Eduard (1883). A History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 54. ISBN 9780343194215.