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Zeno of Citium

334 BCE – 262 BCE · Cyprus · Philosophy

Founded Stoicism in the Athenian Stoa Poikile.

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  • Cicero

    106 BCE – 43 BCE · Politics, Philosophy

    Cicero transmits Stoic ethics into Latin in De Officiis, the channel by which the Stoa reached Europe.

  • Epictetus

    50 – 135 · Philosophy

    The Stoa's doctrine of what is and is not 'up to us' reaches Epictetus as the core of the Discourses.

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