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Stoic philosopher and writer Diodotus the Stoic (c. 130–59 BC) Stoic teacher of Cicero who lived in Cicero's house Geminus of Rhodes (c. 110–c. 40 BC) Astronomer and mathematician Athenodoros Cordylion (c. 130–60 BC) Librarian at Pergamon, lived with Cato: Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher) (fl. 50 BC) Stoic philosopher who wrote a ...
Epictetus (/ ˌ ɛ p ɪ k ˈ t iː t ə s /, EH-pick-TEE-təss; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. [4] [5] He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he spent the rest of his life.
Zeno of Citium (/ ˈ z iː n oʊ /; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. [3] He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
Stoicism considers all existence as cyclical, the cosmos as eternally self-creating and self-destroying (see also Eternal return). Stoicism does not posit a beginning or end to the Universe. [32] According to the Stoics, the logos was the active reason or anima mundi pervading and animating the entire Universe. It was conceived as material and ...
Categories: Classical studies, Ancient Rome (Architecture, Culture, People, Philosophy), Ancient Greece (Architecture, Culture, People, Philosophy) This category is part of Wikipedia's series on the civilisations of Classical Greece and Rome. Articles can also be accessed from the category system.
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates , Plato and Aristotle .
Zeno was a pupil of Chrysippus, [1] and when Chrysippus died c. 206 BC, he succeeded him to become the fourth scholarch of the Stoic school in Athens. [2]According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote very few books, but left a great number of disciples. [1]
As a young man he moved to Athens and studied under Panaetius, the leading Stoic philosopher of the age, and the last undisputed head of the Stoic school in Athens. [10] When Panaetius died in 110 BC, Posidonius would have been around 25 years old. [10] Rather than remain in Athens, he instead settled in Rhodes, and gained citizenship. [14]