FILOSOFI ROMANI -- dall'A alla Z

Speranza

For the record, here below, the alphabetical list to MORFORD, "Roman philosophers" -- with some editorial by yours truly.

Admittedly, the list is of "Philosophers Named in The Text" -- INCLUDING the "Roman philosophers" of the title.

Cheers.

Speranza

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From: Morford, (Ancient) "Roman philosophers" (Routledge): "PHILOSOPHERS NAMED IN THE TEXT"

* AENESIDEMUS. former Academic and founder of Pyrrhonist revival at Rome.

* ANAXAGORAS. early 5th. cent., pre-Socratic enquirer into the origin of the cosmos.

* ANDRONICUS. mid-first cent., Peripatetic; editor of Aristotle’s works.

* ANTIOCHUS. early 1st. cent., Academic who reverted to Plato’s dogmatism.

* ANTIPATER, 1st. cent., Stoic, tutor of Cato Uticensis.

* APOLLONIDES, mid-1st. cent., Stoic; adviser of Cato Uticensis.

* APOLLONIUS, 1st. cent. CE, Neo-pythagorean; a wandering guru.

APULEIUS. ca.125–180 CE, Platonic, author of "Metamorphoses".

ARCESILAUS. mid-3rd.cent., Academic sceptic, head of the New Academy.

ARISTIPPUS. late-5th. cent., member of Socrates’s circle.

ARISTON. 3rd. cent., Peripatetic and head of the Lyceum.

ARISTOTLE 384–322, founder of the Peripatetic school.

ARISTUS. early 1st. cent., head of the Academy and teacher of Brutus.

ARIUS, 1st. cent., adviser to Augustus.

ARTEMIDORUS, 1st. cent. CE, perhaps a Stoic; friend of Pliny theYounger and son-in-law of Musonius.

ATHENODORUS. mid-lst. cent., Stoic and adviser to Cato Uticensis, in whose house he lived.

ATHENODORUS. mid-first cent., Stoic and friend of Cicero.

ATTALUS. 1st. cent. CE, Stoic; teacher of Seneca.

AUGUSTINE 354–430 CE, Bishop of Hippo; orator, Neo-platonist philosopher and one of the Fathers of the Christian church.

BION. ca. 335–245, Cynic philosopher and popular teacher.

BOETHIUS ca. 480–524 CE, philosopher with Stoic and Neoplatonist views; author of "The Consolation of Philosophy".

CARNEADES mid-2nd. cent., head of the New Academy; sceptic and star of the Athenian embassy to Rome in 155.

CHAEREMON. mid-lst. cent., CE, Stoic; tutor to Nero.

CHRYSIPPUS ca. 280–206, head of the Stoic school from 232 and one of its most influential early figures.

CICERO. 106–43, leading transmitter of Hellenistic philosophy to Rome and Renaissance Europe, follower of the New Academy and pupil of Philo of Larissa.

CLEANTHES 331–232, Zeno’s successor as head of the Stoic school from 262 and, with Zeno and Chrysippus, one of the most important figures in early Stoicism.

CLITOMACHUS. late-2nd. cent., Sceptic and pupil of Carneades;head of the New Academy from 127.

CORNUTUS. 1st. cent. CE, Stoic, teacher and friend of Persius and Lucan.

CRANTOR ca. 335–275, Academic, the first commentator on Plato, and an influential writer on grief.

CRATES OF THEBES ca.365–285, Cynic, follower of Diogenes of Sinope and teacher of Zeno of Citium.

CRATIPPUS mid-lst. cent., Peripatetic; friend of Cicero and Nigidius and teacher of Cicero’s son.

CRITOLAUS. first half of 2nd. cent., head of the Peripatetic school and member of the Athenian embassy to Rome in 155.

DEMETRIUS. 1st. cent. CE, friend of Seneca.

DEMETRIUS. mid-1st.cent., adviser of Cato Uticensis.

DEMOCRITUS. second half of 5th. cent., pre-Socratic philosopher and founder of atomism.

DICHAEARCHUS. late 4th. cent., Peripatetic, pupil of Aristotle and prolific author.

DIODOTUS. first of 1st.cent., Stoic, teacher and friend of Cicero, in whose house he lived.

DIOGENES LAERTIUS first half of 3rd. cent. CE, author of "The Lives of the Philosophers".

DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA second half of 5th. cent., pre-Socratic philosopher and enquirer into the natural world; a source for Seneca’s "Naturates Quaestiones".

DIOGENES OF BABYLON. mid-2nd. cent., head of the Stoic school and member of the Athenian embassy to Rome in 155; teacher of Panaetius.

DIOGENES OF OENOANDA late 2nd. cent. CE, Epicurean and part-author of the inscription on the stoa which he caused to be set up in Oenoanda.

DIOGENES OF SINOPE. mid-4th.cent., founder of Cynicism.

EPICTETUS. ca. 50–120 CE, Stoic, pupil of Musonius.

EPICURUS 341–271, principal source for Lucretius’poem.

EUPHRATES late-lst. cent. CE, Stoic; student of Musonius and friend of Pliny the Younger.

FAVORINUS. ca. 85–155 CE, philosopher of the Second Sophistic, friend of Plutarch and teacher of Fronto.

GALEN. late-second cent. CE, physician to Marcus Aurelius, Platonist.

HECATO. early 1st. cent., Stoic, pupil of Panaetius and member of circle of Posidonius.

HERMARCHUS. first half of 3rd. cent., pupil of Epicurus and his successor as head of the Epicurean school from 271, with Epicurus, Metrodorus and Polyaenus, one of “The Four Men”, founders of the Epicurean school.

HIEROCLES early 2nd. cent. CE, Stoic.

LAELIUS. ca. 190–125, consul in 140; friend of Scipio Aemilianus and Panaetius and called by Cicero "the first Roman philosopher."

LEUCIPPUS. second half of 5th. cent., co-founder with Democritus of atomism.

LUCRETIUS. first half of 1st. cent., Epicurean, author of "De Rerum Natura".

MANILIUS. ate-lst. cent. BCE and early-lst. cent CE, Stoic author of "Astronomica".

MARCUS AURELIUS. 121–180 CE, Roman emperor (161–180) and Stoic, author of "To Himself", a private diary.

MENIPPUS. first half of 3rd. cent., Cynic and satirical author in prose and verse on philosophical subjects.

METRODORUS. ca. 331–278, friend of Epicu-rus and one “The Four Men”, founders of Epicureanism.

MODERATUS. second half of 1st. cent. CE, Neo-pythagorean.

MUSONIUS. second half of 1st. cent. CE, Roman of Etruscan descent, Stoic; teacher of Epictetus.

NIGIDIUS. 1st. cent., Neo-pythagorean.

PANAETIUS. ca. 185–109, Stoic, head of the Stoic school from 129; influential at Rome, friend of Scipio Aemilianus and major source for Cicero’s De Officiis.

PARMENIDES. first half of 5th. cent., pre-Socratic philosopher, pioneer enquirer into the nature of
“what is”.

PATRON. first half of 1st. cent., friend of Cicero and successor of Phaedrus as head of the Epicurean school.

PHAEDRUS ca. 140–70, Epicurean, admired by Cicero;head of the Epicurean school in the last years of his life.

PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA. first half of 1st. cent. CE, philosopher, sympathetic to Stoic ethics and influential in the later development of Neoplatonism.

PHILO OF LARISSA ca.159–84, head of the New Academy, 110–88; the most influential of Cicero’s teachers.

PHILODEMUS OF GADARA ca. 110–40, Epicurean philosopher, protegé of Piso Caesoninus and an influence on Virgil and Horace;many of his fragmentary writings are preserved in the Herculaneum papyri.

PLATO ca. 429–347, founder of the Academy and disciple and interpreter of Socrates.

PLOTINUS 205–270 CE, Neoplatonist philosopher, perhaps an Egyptian but resident in Rome and Campania. The most important of 3rd. century CE philosophers and architect of the revival of Neoplatonism.

PLUTARCH. ca. 50–120 CE, Platonist philosopher, biographer and polymath.

POLEMO. died 270, Platonist and head of the Academy from 314.

POLYAENUS. died before 271, friend of Epicurus and one of “The Four Men”, founders of Epicureanism.

POSIDONIUS. ca. 135–50, Stoic, student of Panaetius and head of his own school in Rhodes,where Cicero heard him. The dominant figure in middle Stoicism, whose works encompassed the whole range of intellectual enquiry.

PYRRHO. ca. 365–270, the founder of Scepticism, whose doctrines were revived at Rome by Aenesidemus.

PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS 6th. cent., head of a community at Croton in S.Italy; he emphasized the importance of number and proportion, and his doctrines included vegetarianism and the transmigration of souls. He influenced Plato and his philosophy was revived at Rome by Nigidius and the Sextii.

RUSTICUS. consul in 133 and 162 CE, Stoic; friend and teacher of Marcus Aurelius.

SENECA. 4 BCE–65 CE, Stoic, tutor, adviser and victim of Nero; prolific author of philosophical treatises, including "Dialogi" and "Epistulae Morales".

SEVERUS, consul in 146 CE, Stoic friend and teacher of Marcus Aurelius, whose son married his daughter.

SEXTIUS, QUINTUS mid-1st. cent., Neo-pythagorean, founder of the only genuinely Roman school of philosophy; admired by Seneca for his disciplined Roman ethos.

SEXTUS EMPIRICUS late-2nd. cent. CE, Sceptic, author of philosophical and medical works and critic of Stoicism, principal source forPyrrhonism.

SIRO 1st. cent., Epicurean, teacher in Campania of Virgil.

SOCRATES 469–399, iconic Athenian philosopher and one of the most influential figures in Greek philosophy; he wrote nothing but is the central figure in Plato’s dialogues; admired by non-Academics,including the Stoic Marcus Aurelius nearly six hundred years after his death.

SOTION 1st. cent. CE, Neopythagorean, teacher of Seneca.

SPEUSIPPUS ca. 407–339, Plato’s successor as head of the Academy.

TELES. second half of 3rd. cent., Cynic, author of diatribes on ethical subjects.

THEOPHRASTUS 372–287, Peripatetic, successor to Aristotle as head of the Lyceum from 322.

VARRO, 116–27, Academic, Roman polymath, author of works on language, agriculture, history and philosophy, as well as satires, and principal speaker in the later version of Cicero’s Academica.

XENOCRATES. died 314, head of the Academy from 339.

ZENO OF CITIUM 335–263, founder of Stoicism; originally a follower of the Cynic Crates, he taught at Athens in the Stoa Poikile, which gave its name to his school.

ZENO OF SIDON. ca. 155–75, head of the Epicurean school at Athens, where he taught Philodemus and was heard by Cicero.