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Panaetius of Rhodes

Panaetius of Rhodes

c. 185 BCEc. 110 BCE · Rhodes

Head of the Middle Stoa; softened Stoicism and, through the Scipionic Circle, transmitted it to Rome — the direct source of Cicero's De Officiis.

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RhodesרודוסAegean (Greece)

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About Rhodes

Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was a renowned center of rhetoric, philosophy, and astronomy: the Stoic Panaetius was a native, the Stoic polymath Posidonius (himself born at Apamea) ran his school there, and the astronomers Hipparchus and Geminus worked on the island.

In Rhodes at the same time

Hipparchus, Posidonius of Apamea

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Panaetius of Rhodes’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

In the same tradition

Hipparchus, Posidonius of Apamea

The world in their lifetime

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Influenced byDiogenes BabyloniusPanaetius of RhodesShapedPosidonius of Apamea