Arria was a philosopher and Platonist of the 2nd century CE. We know that she was a friend of the medical annalist Galen, and was admired by Roman emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla.[1][2]

Scholar Gilles Ménage, in his Historia Mulierum Philosopharum, proposed that it was to this Arria that Diogenes Laërtius dedicated his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Galen, de Ther. ad Pison. 100.2. vol. ii. p. 485, ed. Basil
  2. ↑ Curnow, Trevor (2006). "Arria". The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 49. ISBN 9780715634974. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  3. ↑ Gilles Ménage, Historia Mulierum Philosopharum 100.47

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Arria (3)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 350.

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