Ancient · AD 20–101
Who did Musonius Rufus influence?
Students and legacy
The Roman Socrates who taught Stoicism as something you practice, not recite.
Musonius Rufus influenced Epictetus. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Musonius Rufus?
Musonius Rufus was a Roman Stoic who taught philosophy in Rome under Nero and was exiled in 65 AD. He returned under Galba, was exiled again by Vespasian and came back only after Vespasian's death.
Extracts from his lectures survive. He is also remembered as the teacher of Epictetus and Dio Chrysostom.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Musonius Rufus influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Musonius Rufus.
- Epictetus AD 50–135
Two steps away from Musonius Rufus
The second generation
- Through Epictetus: Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal
Contemporaries of Musonius Rufus
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Musonius Rufus, with no direct line between them.
- Seneca c. 4 BC – AD 65
Musonius Rufus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 28
- Wikipedia languages
- 31 — #52 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Musonius Rufus
- Who influenced Musonius Rufus?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Musonius Rufus.
- Who did Musonius Rufus influence?
- Epictetus.
- When did Musonius Rufus live?
- AD 20–101. The map files Musonius Rufus under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Musonius Rufus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Musonius Rufus in 31 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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