Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 16: Lecture 16 Term 2 - Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Real philosophy almost entirely greek what the romans did was package it cicero and. Seneca were most important, who basically just put hellenistic philosophies into latin for. Philosophy after aristotle: philosophy continued to flourish at athens in the century following aristotle"s death in. 322 bc: but there were significant changes: The focus of philosophy narrowed it became more like modern notions of philosophy less comprehensive than the intellectual initiatives of plato and aristotle. Trying to come to terms with the human condition: anthropocentric focus to philosophy. The principal schools: stoicism founded by zeno of citium, who came to athens in 313 bc. Most important named after its location, the stoa poikile ( painted porch") stoic literally means connected with a porch. After zeno the school almost failed, but divergent positions were unified by. Chrysippus (one of his pupils: after making the school, zeno"s pupils took different paths, and. Stoicism had a strong appeal to the romans.