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