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The School of Chrysippus: Zeno of Tarsus and Diogenes of Babylon

The School of Chrysippus: Zeno of Tarsus and Diogenes of Babylon

Vassallo, Christian

Hardcover

PhilosophyMiscellaneous LanguagesLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3111426955
ISBN13: 9783111426952
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 825
Weight: 3.32
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Diogenes of Babylon, also known as Diogenes of Seleucia, was a pupil of Chrysippus and, after Zeno of Tarsus, the fifth head of the Stoic school in Athens, serving until his death, with Antipater of Tarsus and Panaetius among his students. The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain (ca. 238/228-150/140 BCE). Together with the Academic Carneades and the Peripatetic Critolaus, he participated in the embassy of philosophers sent to Rome to petition for the abolition of the 500-talent fine imposed on Athens for the sack of Oropos. From the key information about his surviving treatises, we know that their subjects can be traced back to the three parts into which Diogenes of Babylon divided philosophy -- namely, logic, physics, and ethics -- as Zeno of Citium had also done.

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