Thinkers 300 BCE – 200 CE Greece & Rome

Stoics

Control what you can. Accept what you cannot. Practice the rest.

5 dated entries 23 on the year rail sparse for a year wall
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Year rail · 23 year-precision entries kept off the day grid See the corpus →
The corpus

What lands on a date

  • 01-03 Cicero · Stoic-influenced orator; On Duties. source
  • 03-17 Marcus Aurelius · Died. Meditations; the philosopher-emperor. source
  • 04-12 Seneca · Died. Letters to Lucilius; Stoic practice. source
  • 04-26 Marcus Aurelius · Meditations; the philosopher-emperor. source
  • 12-07 Cicero · Died. Stoic-influenced orator; On Duties. source
Honest dates

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

  • Zeno of Citium -334
  • Zeno of Citium -262
  • Cleanthes -330
  • Cleanthes -230
  • Chrysippus -279
  • Chrysippus -206
  • Diogenes of Babylon -230
  • Diogenes of Babylon -150
  • Panaetius -185
  • Panaetius -110
  • Posidonius -135
  • Posidonius -51
  • Seneca -4
  • Epictetus 50
  • Epictetus 135
  • Musonius Rufus 30
  • Musonius Rufus 100
  • Hierocles 150