The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Jordan
This page contains a list of the greatest Jordanian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Jordan. This makes Jordan the birth place of the 69th most number of Philosophers behind Malta, and Tajikistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jordanian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Jordanian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Philodemus (-110 - -35)
With an HPI of 60.44, Philodemus is the most famous Jordanian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Philodemus of Gadara (Ancient Greek: Φιλόδημος ὁ Γαδαρεύς, Philodēmos, "love of the people"; c. 110 – prob. c. 40 or 35 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum. He was once known chiefly for his poetry preserved in the Greek Anthology, but since the 18th century, many writings of his have been discovered among the charred papyrus rolls at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The task of excavating and deciphering these rolls is difficult, and work continues to this day. The works of Philodemus so far discovered include writings on ethics, theology, rhetoric, music, poetry, and the history of various philosophical schools. Ethel Ross Barker suggested in 1908 that he was owner of the Villa of the Papyri Library, although it is far more likely that the owner was in fact his wealthy Roman patron Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jordanian philosophers born between 110 BC and 110 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Jordanian philosophers include Philodemus.
