Philo (
Philon; 154/3–84/3 BC) of
Larissa, was a
Greek philosopher. He was a pupil of
Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as head of the
Academy. During the
Mithridatic wars which would see the destruction of the Academy, he travelled to
Rome where
Cicero heard him lecture. None of his writings survive. He was an
Academic sceptic, like Clitomachus and
Carneades before him, but he offered a more moderate view of scepticism than that of his teachers, permitting provisional beliefs without certainty.