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"
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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.
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