Aristippus (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Because Aristippus (ar-uh-STIHP-uhs) left no writings for posterity, what is known about him is derived from secondary sources, the most notable of which is Xenophon’s Apomnēmoneumata (c. 381-355; Memorabilia of Socrates, 1712). From these scant and distant sources, it appears that Aristippus was born in North Africa in the city of Cyrene, in what is currently Libya but was then Cyrenaica. His family was reputed to have had considerable influence and to have been sufficiently rich to support...
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