Chaeremon basa biography of martin

1 Chaeremon THOMAS SCHNEIDER Chaeremon (ca. 10–80 CE) was an Alexandrian scholar, Egyptian priest (hierogrammateus), and Stoic philosopher.

Born into a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian family, he was likely a member of an Alexandrian delegation to Claudius in 41 (see “Letter to Alexandria,” in Tcherikover and Fuks 1960:153). A teacher of Nero, he is conventionally believed to have held this function before Seneca assumed the post in 49 (but see Frede 1989 for a possible concomitant appointment, 48–51).

An entry of the SUDA suggests that he was the director of the libraries of Alexandria, if not necessarily the museum. None of Chaeremon’s works has been preserved but testimonies by later writers and fragments, some of which are of disputed authenticity, allow for an assessment of his view