Sandon (philosopher) explained

Sandon (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Σάνδων; 1st century BC) is an Orphic philosopher mentioned in the Suda.[1] He is described briefly as a son of Hellanikos. He has been identified with the Sandon of Tarsus mentioned by Pseudo-Lucian in the essay Macrobii ("Long Lives"),[2] who was the father of Athenodorus (the Stoic philosopher and the tutor of Augustus Caesar).[3] His father Hellanicus may have been the Orphic philosopher of the late 2nd century mentioned by Damascius.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&field=adlerhw_gr&searchstr=sigma,90 Suda σ 90
  2. http://www.attalus.org/translate/macrobii.html Macrobii
  3. Strabo, xiv. 14
  4. G. S. Kirk, et al., The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (1983) page 24.