Sotion ofAlexandria (Ancient Greek:Σωτίων,gen.: Σωτίωνος; fl. c. 200 – 170 BC) was a Greekdoxographer and biographer, and an important source forDiogenes Laërtius. None of his works survive; they are known only indirectly. His principal work, the Διαδοχή or Διαδοχαί (theSuccessions), was one of the first history books to have organized philosophers into schools of successive influence: e.g., the so-calledIonian School ofThales,Anaximander andAnaximenes. It is quoted very frequently by Diogenes Laërtius,^[1] andAthenaeus.^[2] Sotion'sSuccessions likely consisted of 23 books,^[3] and at least partly drew on the doxography ofTheophrastus. TheSuccessions was influential enough to be abridged byHeraclides Lembus in the mid-2nd century BC, and works by the same title were subsequently written bySosicrates of Rhodes andAntisthenes of Rhodes.

He was also, apparently, the author of a work,OnTimon's Silloi,^[4] and of a work entitledRefutations of Diocles.^[5]

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