# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hegesias-of-cyrene
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:24:29.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hegesias-of-cyrene"
name: "Hegesias of Cyrene"
slug: "hegesias-of-cyrene"
description: "Hegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. Cicero claims that Hegesias wrote a book called ἀποκαρτερῶν, which persuaded so many people that death is more desirable than life that Hegesias was banned from teaching in Alexandria. It has been thought by some that Hegesias was influenced by Buddhist teachings."
tagline: "Ancient Greek philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-400"
deathDate: "-300"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.74
  momentum:             3.081395348837208
  historical:           21.485752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump