Editing Periander (section)

==Influences==

Periander is referenced by many contemporaries in relation to philosophy and leadership. Most commonly he is mentioned as one of the [[Seven Sages of Greece|Seven Sages]] of [[Ancient Greece]], a group of philosophers and rulers from early Greece, but some authors leave him out of the list. In ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'', Diogenes Laertius, a philosopher of the 3rd century AD, lists Periander as one of these Seven Sages. [[Ausonius]] also refers to Periander as one of the Sages in his work ''The Masque of the Seven Sages''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ausonius|title=The Masque of the Seven Sages|url=https://archive.org/stream/deciausonius01ausouoft#page/310/mode/2up}}</ref>

Some scholars have argued that the ruler named Periander was a different person from the sage of the same name. Diogenes Laërtius writes that "Sotion, and Heraclides, and Pamphila in the fifth book of her Commentaries say that there were two Perianders; the one a tyrant, and the other a wise man, and a native of Ambracia. Neanthes of Cyzicus makes the same assertion, adding, that the two men were cousins to one another. Aristotle says, that it was the Corinthian Periander who was the wise one; but Plato contradicts him."<ref>{{cite web|last=Pausanias|title=Description of Greece|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160}}</ref>