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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 02/02/2006.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

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Biography:

Metrodorus was a student of the philosopher Anaxagoras¹ (Diog. L. 2, 11), and so he has to be dated to the 5^th c. BCE and to be considered distinct from the younger Epicurean² Metrodorus³ who was also from Lampsacus.

Metrodorus is mentioned in Plato’s^4…