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Ariston of Chios
Ariston of Chios
c. 300 BCE–c. 240 BCE · Athens
Ariston of Chios was a Greek Stoic philosopher of the 3rd century BCE, a pupil of Zeno of Citium who taught at Athens. He took a distinctive line within Stoicism, concentrating on ethics and rejecting the study of physics and logic as useless, and he denied that anything between virtue and vice has real moral value. His writings are lost, surviving only in later reports.
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The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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Theophrastus, Dinarchus, Demetrius of Phaleron, Menander, Epicurus, Crantor
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Theophrastus, Dinarchus, Demetrius of Phaleron, Menander, Epicurus, Crantor, Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Hermarchus of Mytilene, Arcesilaus, Chrysippus
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