# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sotion
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:42:32.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sotion"
name: "Sotion"
slug: "sotion"
description: "Sotion of Alexandria was a Greek doxographer and biographer, and an important source for Diogenes Laërtius. None of his works survive; they are known only indirectly. His principal work, the Διαδοχή or Διαδοχαί, was one of the first history books to have organized philosophers into schools of successive influence: e.g., the so-called Ionian School of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. It is quoted very frequently by Diogenes Laërtius, and Athenaeus. Sotion's Successions likely consisted of 23 books, and at least partly drew on the doxography of Theophrastus. The Successions was influential enough to be abridged by Heraclides Lembus in the mid-2nd century BC, and works by the same title were subsequently written by Sosicrates of Rhodes and Antisthenes of Rhodes."
tagline: "2nd-century BC Greek writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-250"
deathDate: "-170"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.87656666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Сотион Александрійський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سوتيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soti%C3%B3_d'Alexandria_(segle_III_aC)"
    title: "Sotió d'Alexandria (segle III aC)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion_von_Alexandria"
    title: "Sotion von Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%B3n_de_Alejandr%C3%ADa"
    title: "Soción de Alejandría"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozion_Alexandriakoa_(Peripatetikoa)"
    title: "Sozion Alexandriakoa (Peripatetikoa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سوتیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3t%C3%ADon"
    title: "Sótíon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozione_il_Peripatetico"
    title: "Sozione il Peripatetico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3tion"
    title: "Sótion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8"
    title: "Сотион из Александрии"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotion"
    title: "Sotion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2570422"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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