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Arius Didymus
Arius Didymus ( ''Areios Didymos''; fl. 1st century BC) of Alexandria, was a Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius.
==Life==
Arius was a citizen of Alexandria. Augustus esteemed him so highly, that after the conquest of Alexandria, he declared that he spared the city chiefly for the sake of Arius.〔Plutarch, ''Ant.'' 80, ''Apophth.''; Dio Cassius, li. 16; Julian, ''Epistles'', 51; comp. Strabo, xiv.〕 According to Plutarch, Arius advised Augustus to execute Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, with the words "ouk agathon polukaisarie" ("it's not good to have too many Caesars"), a pun on a line in Homer.〔David Braund ''et al'', ''Myth, history and culture in republican Rome: studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman'', University of Exeter Press, 2003, p.305. The original line was "ouk agathon polukoiranie": "Too many leaders are not good" or "the rule of many is a bad thing" (Homer, ''Iliad'', Bk. II. vers. 204 and 205). In Greek "polu''kaisar''ie" is a variation on "polu''koiran''ie". "Kaisar" (Caesar) replacing "Koiran(os)", meaning "leader".〕
Arius as well as his two sons, Dionysius and Nicanor, are said to have instructed Augustus in philosophy.〔Suetonius, ''Augustus'', 89.〕 He is frequently mentioned by Themistius, who says that Augustus valued him not less than Agrippa.〔Themistius, ''Orat.'' v., viii., x., xiii〕 From Quintilian〔Quintilian, ii. 15. § 36, iii. 1. § 16〕 it appears that Arius also taught or wrote on rhetoric.〔Comp. Seneca, ''consol. ad Marc.'' 4; Aelian, ''Varia Historia'', xii. 25; Suda〕 He is presumably the "Arius" whose ''Life'' was among those in the missing final section of book VII of the ''Lives'' of Diogenes Laërtius.〔Richard Hope, 1930, ''The book of Diogenes Laertius: its spirit and its method'', page 17.〕
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