Sandon (philosopher)

Sandon (Greek: Σάνδων; 1st century BC) is an Orphic philosopher mentioned in the Suda .^[1] He is described briefly as a son of Hellanikos. He has been identified with the Sandon of Tarsus mentioned by Pseudo-Lucian in the essay Macrobii ("Long Lives"),^[2] who was the father of Athenodorus (the Stoic philosopher and the tutor of Augustus Caesar).^[3] His father Hellanicus may have been the Orphic philosopher of the late 2nd century mentioned by Damascius.^[4]

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