Ancient · c. 185–110 BC
Who influenced Panaetius?
Influences and legacy
Middle Stoic who softened Zeno's rigor and shaped Cicero's De officiis.
Panaetius was influenced by Zeno of Citium, and went on to influence Posidonius. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: Nuremberg_chronicles_f_082v_3.png: Hartmann Schedel derivative work: Singinglemon (talk), Public domain See the whole map
Who was Panaetius?
Panaetius of Rhodes studied Stoicism in Athens under Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus, then went to Rome, where with the patronage of Scipio Aemilianus he did much to introduce Stoicism to the Romans.
After Scipio's death he returned to lead the Stoic school in Athens, its last undisputed head, and under him Stoicism became far more eclectic. His treatise On Duties was Cicero's main source for his own work of that name.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Panaetius?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–262 BC
Who did Panaetius influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Panaetius.
- Posidonius c. 135–51 BC
The line of teachers behind Panaetius
The longest documented line of influence ending at Panaetius runs 8 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Panaetius
Indirect influences
- Through Zeno of Citium: Diogenes of Sinope, Crates of Thebes
The second generation
- Through Posidonius: Cicero
Panaetius by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 10
- Thinkers downstream
- 139
- Wikipedia languages
- 42 — #46 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Panaetius
- Who influenced Panaetius?
- Zeno of Citium.
- Who did Panaetius influence?
- Posidonius.
- When did Panaetius live?
- c. 185–110 BC. The map files Panaetius under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Panaetius card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Panaetius in 42 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC