Antiochus and the Epicureans on the doctrinal agreement between Plato and Aristotle
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.