Diogenes of Babylon, also called Diogenes the Stoic, was a Greek philosopher who headed the Stoic school after Chrysippus and was one of the three philosophers, with the Academic Carneades and the Peripatetic Critolaus, who took part in the famous embassy to Rome in 156 to 155 BC. He wrote on logic, rhetoric, music and ethics, but his works survive only in fragments and in the citations of later authors, so his thought is known largely at second hand. Those writings helped fix orthodox Stoic doctrine for the following century and introduced Stoicism to Roman intellectual life. His pupils included Antipater of Tarsus and Panaetius, who carried the Stoic tradition on into the late Roman Republic. Later accounts connect his name with Seleucia on the Tigris in Babylonia, and place his study at Athens.
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Diogenes of Babylon (c. 230 BC - c. 150 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Ancient era, associated with Stoicism, Hellenistic, and Ancient Greek Philosophy.
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Diogenes of Babylon (c. 230 BC - c. 150 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Ancient era, associated with Stoicism, Hellenistic, and Ancient Greek Philosophy.
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His writings on logic, rhetoric, music, and ethics, preserved only in fragments and citations, helped to fix the orthodox Stoic doctrine for the next century and to introduce Stoicism to Roman intellectual life.
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the head of the Stoic school after Chrysippus
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His writings on logic, rhetoric, music, and ethics, preserved only in fragments and citations, helped to fix the orthodox Stoic doctrine for the next century and to introduce Stoicism to Roman intellectual life.
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His writings on logic, rhetoric, music, and ethics, preserved only in fragments and citations, helped to fix the orthodox Stoic doctrine for the next century and to introduce Stoicism to Roman intellectual life.
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there were just two heads of the Stoa, Zeno of Tarsus (south-central Turkey) and Diogenes of Babylon
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Born in Seleucia on the Tigris in Babylonia, Diogenes was educated at Athens under the auspices of Chrysippus
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