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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 21/06/2004.

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Athenodorus was a Stoic¹ philosopher of the first rank (Plut. CMi. 10, 1). Nicknamed Cordylion, “the Hunchback”, he lived in the 1^st c. BCE and worked as the head of the library of Pergamum, until, following a visit by M. Porcius Cat…