Ancient · c. 279–206 BC
Who influenced Chrysippus?
Influences
Stoicism's second founder — wrote hundreds of volumes giving the porch its logic.
Chrysippus was influenced by Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Chrysippus?
Chrysippus came to Athens from Soli in Cilicia, studied under Cleanthes and around 230 BC became the third head of the Stoic school. He expanded Zeno's teaching so thoroughly that he was called the second founder of Stoicism.
He built an original system of propositional logic, held a fatalist view of fate while leaving room for human agency, and taught that ethics depends on understanding nature and that the soul must be freed from unruly passions. He wrote a great deal, but only fragments survive, some of them among the papyri of Herculaneum.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Chrysippus?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–262 BC
- Cleanthes c. 330–230 BC
The line of teachers behind Chrysippus
The longest documented line of influence ending at Chrysippus runs 9 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Chrysippus
Indirect influences
- Through Zeno of Citium: Diogenes of Sinope, Crates of Thebes
Chrysippus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 11
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 49 — #42 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Chrysippus
- Who influenced Chrysippus?
- Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes.
- Who did Chrysippus influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Chrysippus.
- When did Chrysippus live?
- c. 279–206 BC. The map files Chrysippus under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Chrysippus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Chrysippus in 49 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC