Ricerc@Sapienza

This article mainly focuses on Sextus Empiricus’ only evidence (M. 7,201 =
Antioc. Ascal. 66 Luck = F2 Mette = F2 Sedley) for Antiochus’ of Ascalon Kanonika.
David Sedley maintains that Antiochus wrote his Kanonika before the ‘publication’
in 87 BC of the so-called Roman Books by his master Philo of Larissa.
Accordingly, the Kanonika do not include any criticism against the Sceptics of the
Academy. The close examination of Sextus’ testimony shows that in all likelihood

The main goal of this paper is to show that before the ‘syncretistic’ philosophical position of the Academic philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon, a very similar view (mutatis mutandis) was already to be found in the Epicurean thinker Colotes of Lampsacus but obviously with very different goals. It is commonly assumed that the ‘doctrinal harmony’ between Plato and Aristotle began with Antiochus at the end of Hellenistic age.