Hermarchus
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Disciple of Epicurus made great by living with him rather than merely hearing him.
It was not the school of Epicurus but living with him that made great men of Metrodorus and Hermarchus and Polyaenus.
Among those others, whatever Hermarchus said, whatever Metrodorus, is referred to one man.
If you ask for an example of this too, Epicurus says Hermarchus was such.
Lucullus
Follower of Epicurus, used as the subject of the hypothetical disjunction 'Hermarchus will be alive tomorrow or he will not.'
For when from Epicurus, who both despises and mocks the whole of dialectic, they cannot obtain that he concede the truth of what we shall thus state, "either Hermarchus will be alive tomorrow or he will not be alive," while the dialecticians thus determine that everything which is so disjoined as "either yes or no" is not only true but even necessary (see how cautious is the man whom those people think dull:
On Moral Ends
Epicurus's successor as head of the Epicurean school, addressee of his deathbed letter
'Epicurus to Hermarchus, greeting.
that Amynomachus and Timocrates, his heirs, should, by the judgment of Hermarchus, give what is enough for keeping his birthday every year in the month Gamelion, and likewise on the twentieth day of the moon in every month should give for the feast of those who studied philosophy together with him, so that the memory both of himself and of Metrodorus might be honoured.
On the Nature of the Gods
Epicurean philosopher who joined Epicurus and Metrodorus in attacking Pythagoras, Plato, and Empedocles.
Trusting in these dreams, not only Epicurus, Metrodorus, and Hermarchus spoke against Pythagoras, Plato, and Empedocles, but even the little courtesan Leontium dared to write against Theophrastus — in choice and Attic style, to be sure, but yet she did: