A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

2. Of Rhodes, a contemporary and disciple of Aristotle. We have no particulars of his life; but that he was one of the most important of Aristotle's numerous disciples may be inferred from the anecdote of Gellius (13.5, where Eudemo must be read instead of Menedemo), according to which Eudemus and Theophrastus were the only disciples whom the Peripatetic school esteemed worthy to till the place of Aristotle after his death. Simplicius makes mention of a biography of Eudemus, supposed to be the work of one Damas or Damascius. (Simplic. ad Aristot. Phys. 6.216.)

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