About Calliphon
Calliphon was a philosopher.
Calliphon (or Callipho, ) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue and bodily pleasure (, ), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the human with the beast.
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Who was Calliphon?
Epicurean philosopher
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Calliphon was a philosopher.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Calliphon. https://biography.guide/calliphon/
MLA: "Calliphon." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/calliphon/.
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