The paper presents the results of a wider study and aims to set Clement’s literary activity within the context of Second century philosophical teaching, as witnessed by authors like Maximus of Tyre, Gellius, Apuleius, Epictetus and others.
Many hints and remarks in their works, indeed, find exact correspondence in the whole of Clement’s writings; in this way, it is possible to characterize better some features of Clement’s literary activity, which reflect his way of teaching and the different audiences he addressed.
Clement appears as a professional teacher fully integrated in the philosophical milieu of his time, in a very different way from the picture of his role in the Alexandrian didaskaleion painted by Eusebius.
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