Note 51 — Chapter III · HISTORY OF THE STOICS UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.

(2) Later Stoics. A cotemporary of Chrysippus, but probably somewhat his senior, was Teles, from whose writings a few extracts51 have been preserved by Stobæus,52 in the shape of popular moral considerations written from a Cynic or Stoical point of view. The same age also produced the Cyrenaic Eratosthenes,53 a man distinguished in every branch of knowledge, but particularly celebrated for his mathematical attainments, who was gained for Stoicism by Aristo.54 Another cotemporary of Chrysippus, and perhaps his fellow-student,55 who in many respects approximated to the teaching of the Peripatetics,56 was the Stoic Boëthus. The proper scholars of Chrysippus were without doubt numerous;57 but few of their names are known to us.58 The most important among them appear to have been Zeno of Tarsus,59 and Diogenes of Seleucia,60 who succeeded Chrysippus in the presidency of the School.61 The pupil and successor of Diogenes, in his turn, was Antipater of Tarsus,62 in connection with whom Archedemus his countryman is frequently mentioned.63 Under Panætius, Antipater’s scholar, Stoicism entered the Roman world, and there underwent internal changes, to which attention will be drawn in the sequel.64