Alexander Peloplaton

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος), surnamed Peloplaton (Πηλοπλάτων), a Greek rhetorician of the age of the Antonines, was a son of Alexander of Seleucia, in Cilicia, and of Seleucis. His father was distinguished as a pleader in the courts of justice, by which he acquired considerable property, but he died at an age when his son was too young to care for himself. His place, however, was supplied by his friends, especially by Apollonius of Tyana, who is said to have been in love with Seleucis on account of her extraordinary beauty, in which she was equaled by her son. His education was entrusted at first to the philosopher Favorinus, and afterwards to Dionysius. He spent the property his father had left to him on pleasures, but, says Philostratus, not contemptible pleasures.