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Antipater Tarsensis
Antipater Tarsensis
c. 200 BCE–c. 130 BCE · Athens
Antipater of Tarsus was a Greek Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BCE who became head of the Stoic school at Athens, succeeding Diogenes of Babylon. He contributed to Stoic logic and ethics and was a teacher of Panaetius, helping transmit Stoicism toward the Roman world. His writings survive only in fragments and later testimony.
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