c. 335–269 BCE · Peripatetic philosopher · royal tutor

Strato of Lampsacus

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Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.

In Alexandria: c. 300–287 BCE

A pupil of Theophrastus who taught the young Ptolemy II in Alexandria, Diogenes Laertius says, before going back to Athens to head the Lyceum from 287/286 BCE. He wrote on physics, the void and motion; Aristarchus of Samos was his pupil.

Our device: Their emblem is an empty vessel. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.

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  • Diogenes Laertius 5.58