# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/demetrius-lacon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:39:14.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/demetrius-lacon"
name: "Demetrius Lacon"
slug: "demetrius-lacon"
description: "Demetrius Lacon or Demetrius of Laconia was an Epicurean philosopher, and a disciple of Protarchus. He was an older contemporary of Zeno of Sidon and a teacher of Philodemus. Sextus Empiricus quotes part of a commentary by Demetrius on Epicurus, where Demetrius interprets Epicurus' statement that \"time is an accident of accidents.\""
tagline: "Epicurean philosopher; disciple of Protarchus; contemporary of Zeno of Sidon; teacher of Philodemus"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-150"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.59
  momentum:             3.57142857142857
  historical:           10.27293066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Деметрій з Лаконії"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetri_Lac%C3%B2nic"
    title: "Demetri Lacònic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Lakon"
    title: "Demetrios Lakon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9B%CE%AC%CE%BA%CF%89%CE%BD"
    title: "Δημήτριος ο Λάκων"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Lacon"
    title: "Demetrius Lacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_de_Lac%C3%B3n"
    title: "Demetrio de Lacón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Lakonialainen"
    title: "Demetrios Lakonialainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9m%C3%A9trios_Lacon"
    title: "Démétrios Lacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_di_Laconia"
    title: "Demetrio di Laconia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Laconicus"
    title: "Demetrius Laconicus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8"
    title: "Деметрий из Лаконии"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Laco"
    title: "Demetrius Laco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1185502"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump