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Menedemus of Pyrrha, Lesbos, lived c. 350 BC, was a member of Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
's Academy
Platonic Academy

For the Raphael painting, see The School of AthensThe Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Classical Athens. It persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a philosophical skepticism school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC....
, during the time of Speusippus
Speusippus

Speusippus was an ancient Greece philosopher. Speusippus was Plato's nephew by his sister Potone. After Plato's death, Speusippus inherited the Platonic Academy and remained its head for the next eight years....
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Menedemus of Pyrrha, Lesbos, lived c. 350 BC, was a member of Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
's Academy
Platonic Academy

For the Raphael painting, see The School of AthensThe Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Classical Athens. It persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a philosophical skepticism school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC....
, during the time of Speusippus
Speusippus

Speusippus was an ancient Greece philosopher. Speusippus was Plato's nephew by his sister Potone. After Plato's death, Speusippus inherited the Platonic Academy and remained its head for the next eight years....
. Upon the death of Speusippus
Speusippus

Speusippus was an ancient Greece philosopher. Speusippus was Plato's nephew by his sister Potone. After Plato's death, Speusippus inherited the Platonic Academy and remained its head for the next eight years....
 in 339 BC, an election was held for the next scholarch of the Academy. Menedemus and Heraclides
Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus , also known as Herakleides, was a Greece philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Eregli, Turkey....
 narrowly lost to Xenocrates
Xenocrates

Xenocrates of Chalcedon was a Ancient Greece philosopher, mathematician, and leader of the Platonic Academy from 339 to 314 BC. His teachings followed those of Plato's, which he attempted to define more closely, often with mathematical elements....
. Menedemus left the Academy, and set up a school of his own.