Damis
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Ancient Greek philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Damis was a student and lifelong companion of Apollonius of Tyana, the famous Neopythagorean philosopher and teacher who lived in the early 1st up to the early 2nd century AD. Life All that is known about Damis comes from Apollonius' biographer Philostratus who wrote his Life of Apollonius of Tyana between 217 and 238. Some scholars believe the notebooks of Damis are an invention of Philostratus, while others think it was a real book forged by someone else and used by Philostratus. Some scholars think that Damis never existed at all. F.C. Conybeare, however, points out the extreme and unnecessary skepticism of this theory.
