Boethus, Boëthus or Boethos () may also refer to: *

Hotepsekhemwy Hotepsekhemwy is the Horus name of an early Egyptian king who was the founder of the Second Dynasty of Egypt. The exact length of his reign is not known; the Turin canon suggests an improbable 95 years Alan H. Gardiner: ''The royal canon of T ...

(29th century BCE), Egyptian king known in Greek sources as Boethos * (4th century BCE), Platonist philosopher * Boethoi (3rd–2nd century BCE), a family of metalworkers, including ** ** ** * (c. 2nd century BCE), Greek sculptor *

Boethus of Chalcedon Boëthus () was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age. His life dates cannot be accurately fixed, but he probably flourished in the 2nd century BCE. One source gives his birthplace as Chalcedon. He was noted for his representations of children ...

(c. 2nd century BCE), Greek sculptor * (c. 2nd century BCE), Greek gem cutter * (died 120/119 BCE), Greek philosopher *

Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) Boethus (; ) was a Stoic philosopher from Sidon, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon. Philosophy He is said to have denied, contrary to the standard Stoic view, that the cosmos is an animate being, and he suggested that it was not the whole world ...

(fl. 2nd century BCE), Stoic philosopher *

Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic) Boethus of Sidon (; – ) was a Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon, who lived towards the end of the 1st century BC. None of his work has been preserved and the complete collection of quotings and paraphrases appeared first in 2020. Biography As ...

(c. 75 BCE – c. 10 BCE), Peripatetic philosopher *

Boethus of Cilicia Boethus of Cilicia (; ) was an Ancient Greek poet from Tarsus who was the author of an epigram in the Greek Anthology in praise of Pylades, a pantomime in the time of Augustus. Strabo ''Geographica'', Book xiv. p.674 describes him as a bad citizen ...

(1st century BCE), Roman governor and poet *

Herod II Herod II (c. 27 BC – 33/34 AD) was the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest, and the first husband of Herodias, daughter of Aristobulus IV and his wife Berenice. For a brief period he was his fa ...

(died 33/34 CE), Judean prince, sometimes called Herod Boethus * (fl. 1st century CE), Epicurean philosopher *

Titus Flavius Boethus Titus Flavius Boethus (died 168) was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. He is known as being an acquaintance of the physician Galen. Boethus was suffect consul in one of the '' nundinia'' falling in the later ha ...

(died 168 CE), Roman senator *

Boethus (family) The family of Boethos (or Boethus) produced many High Priests of Israel. They may have been related to the Boethusians. * Simon, son of Boethus from Alexandria, was made a high priest about 25 BCE by Herod the Great, in order that his marriage with ...

, family of Jewish high priests * Boethus, namesake of the ancient Jewish sect of the

Boethusians The Boethusians () were a Jewish sect closely related to, if not a development of, the Sadducees. Origins according to the Talmud The post-Talmudic work ''Avot of Rabbi Natan'' gives the following origin of the schism between the Pharisees and Sa ...

Simon son of Boethus Simon, son of Boethus (also known as Simon son of Boëthus, Simeon ben Boethus or Shimon ben Boethus) () was a Jewish High priest (ca. 23 – 4 BCE) in the 1st century BCE and father-in-law of Herod the Great. According to Josephus, he was also ...

, his son

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