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Anaxarchus of Abdera (Anaxarchos, Anaxarkhos), fl. 4th century BC. Ancient Greek philosopher, a follower of Democritus who accompanied Alexander the Great. Diogenes Laertius says that Pyrrho the Skeptic was his student. He is remembered for little except his absolutist political pronouncement that "kings, like gods, can do no wrong."

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• Anaxarchus

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/anaxarch/
  Very brief article on this thinker from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Wikipedia: Anaxarchus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxarchus
  Article from this openly-edited encyclopedia, drawn from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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