Flashcards: Stoic philosophers

Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος; died 130/129 BC) of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher.

Zeno of Citium (/ˈziːnoʊ/; Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic thinker from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus, and probably of Phoenician descent.

Gaius Musonius Rufus (/ˈruːfəs/) was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD.

Sphaerus (Greek: Σφαῖρος; c. 285 BC – c. 210 BC) of Borysthenes or the Bosphorus, was a Stoic philosopher.

Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος, Poseidonios, meaning "of Poseidon") "of Apameia" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (c. 135 BCE – c. 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.

Aristo of Chios (Greek: Ἀρίστων ὁ Χῖος Ariston ho Chios; fl. c. 260 BC) was a Stoic philosopher and colleague of Zeno of Citium.

Zeno of Tarsus (Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ταρσεύς, Zenon ho Tarseus; fl. 200 BC) was a Stoic philosopher and the son of Dioscorides.

Apollodorus of Athens (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 180 BC – after 120 BC) son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar, historian and grammarian.

Euphrates (Greek: Εὐφράτης) was an eminent Stoic philosopher, who lived c.

Athenodorus Cananites (Greek: Ἀθηνόδωρος Κανανίτης, Athenodoros Kananites; c. 74 BC – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher.

Mara bar 'Serapion, (Syriac: ܡܪܐ ܒܪ ܣܪܦܝܘܢ‎), sometimes spelled Mara bar Sarapion, was an Assyrian Stoic philosopher in the Roman province of Syria.

Diogenes of Babylon (also known as Diogenes of Seleucia; Greek: Διογένης Βαβυλώνιος; Latin: Diogenes Babylonius; c. 230 – c. 150/140 BC) was a Stoic philosopher.

Polemon (fl. 2nd century BCE) was a Stoic philosopher and geographer.

Hecato or Hecaton of Rhodes (Greek: Ἑκάτων; fl. c. 100 BC) was a Stoic philosopher.

Chaeremon of Alexandria (/kəˈriːmən, -mɒn/; Greek: Χαιρήμων, gen.: Ancient Greek: Χαιρήμονος; fl. 1st century AD) was a Stoic philosopher, historian, and grammarian.

Dionysius the Renegade (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Μεταθέμενος; c. 330 – c. 250), also known as Dionysius of Heraclea, was a Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who, late in life, abandoned Stoicism when he became afflicted by terrible pain.

Hierocles (Greek: Ίεροκλῆς; fl. 2nd century) was a Stoic philosopher.

Boethus (Greek: Βοηθός; fl. 2nd century BC) was a Stoic philosopher from Sidon, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon.

Crates of Mallus (Greek: Κράτης ὁ Μαλλώτης, Krátēs o Mallṓtēs; fl. 2nd century BC) was a Greek language grammarian and Stoic philosopher, leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum.

Dioscorides (fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus.

Chrysippus of Soli (Greek: Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, Chrysippos ho Soleus; c. 279 – c. 206 BC) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.

Jason (Greek: Ἰάσων, Iason; 1st-century BC) of Nysa, a Stoic philosopher, son of Menecrates, and, on his mother's side, grandson of Posidonius, of whom also he was the disciple and successor at the Stoic school at Rhodes.

Cleanthes (/kliˈænθiːz/; Greek: Κλεάνθης Kleanthēs; c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC), of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and successor to Zeno, as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens.

Léontine Zanta (14 February 1872 – 15 June 1942) was a French philosopher, feminist and novelist.