id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9209 Athenodorus Cananites - Wikipedia .html text/html 955 175 64 Athenodorus was born in Canana, near Tarsus (in modern-day Turkey); his father was Sandon.[1] He was a student of Posidonius of Rhodes, and the teacher of Octavian (the future Caesar Augustus) at Apollonia. Later, Athenodorus returned to Tarsus, where he was instrumental in expelling the government of Boëthus and drafting a new constitution for the city, the result of which was a pro-Roman oligarchy.[3] When Athenodorus was writing a book of philosophy, late at night, a ghost is said to have come to him. None of these are extant, but he also assisted Cicero in writing his De Officiis and it has been suggested that his work may have influenced Seneca and Saint Paul.[3] Following his death, the people of Tarsus held an annual festival and sacrifice in his honour. Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9209.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9209.txt